1. Proctor,North CarolinaDeath of a MountainCommunity
2. Beautiful And Pristine FontanaReservoir
3. Hazel Creek
4. CALHOUN GENERAL STORECAF & ICE CREAM SHOPCALHOUN
HOUSEHAZEL CREEK & BRIDGEPROCTOR, NORTH CAROLINA
5. Here is the bridge as it looks today. You can visually place
the missing structures in the picture.
6. Hazel Creek
7. Fontana Marina
8. Lets meet our friendly mountain boat captain.
9. Notice how the land was cleared of all trees and brush all
the way to the bottom
10. Hwy 288 Bridge Normally underwater
11. LAKESHORE TRAIL
12. BALLFIELD
13. BRIDGE TO POSSUM HOLLOW THIS SITE WAS OVER HAZEL CREEK JUST
TO THE LEFT OF THE BALLFIELD
14. PROCTOR SCHOOLTHIS SITE IS DIRECTLY BEHIND YOU AS YOU FACE
THE BALLFIELD
15. PICNIC ON THE PROCTOR SCHOOLGROUNDS
16. Foundations to the original bridge into Proctor
17. STRUTTEN STREET
18. CELLAR CELLARSEWER PIPE ?????
19. Ritter Lumber Company on Struttin Street. This was also the
commissary.Notice the boardwalk. The town had a consistent
boardwalk on both Struttin Street and Calico Street.When the town
was first built they had outhouses overhanging the creek in front
of all the houses.This proved to be very unpleasant as well as
unsightly. The company moved the facilities to inside or in the
back of each home.
20. Ritter Officeand Company Store.Notice the
woodenBoardwalk.
21. Ritter CompanyHouseNear the samearea on CalicoStreet
22. Early Picture of Community Hall andTheatre.Picture of the
same structure after it becamethe general store.
23. Calico Street
24. Calhoun HouseHome of the owner of the General Store
25. Views from Inside theCalhoun House
26. CLUBHOUSEFISHING IN THE MILL PONDFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
27. ClubhouseHazelCreekBaptist Church Club House Hill Road
28. Club House Hill Road Bunkhouse
29. Ritter Lumber Yard
30. Ritter Mill and Log Pond
31. Antique VictorStovefound in the mill ruins
32. Local citizens were given work at good wages for the first
time. All they hadto do was build a dam that would inundate their
homes under 80 feet of water.
33. Fontana workers cafeteria. This was the 3rd Fontana site.
The other two are under the reservoir. This site is now a part of
the Fontana resort.
34. In 1943 a road to the abandoned properties and cemeteries
was promised and a few miles Was built but environmentalists, The
Park Service, and the government shut it down.It not extends to
this tunnel and stops on the other side.
