
Hugh Morton: Summers in the Mountain
Season 2004 Episode 601 | 58m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Hugh Morton begins the first episode talking about his grandfather Hugh MacRae.
Hugh MacRae lived in Delaware but decided to move to the North Carolina mountains because of his interest in mining mica, an expensive stone at the time. As he familiarized himself with both east and west North Carolina, he began buying property on both the coast and in the mountains, including a 16,000 acre tract of land that included Grandfather Mountain.
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Biographical Conversations with James Goodmon was made possible by the generous support of Frank Daniels, Jr.

Hugh Morton: Summers in the Mountain
Season 2004 Episode 601 | 58m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Hugh MacRae lived in Delaware but decided to move to the North Carolina mountains because of his interest in mining mica, an expensive stone at the time. As he familiarized himself with both east and west North Carolina, he began buying property on both the coast and in the mountains, including a 16,000 acre tract of land that included Grandfather Mountain.
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Biographical Conversations With... is a local public television program presented by PBS NC
Biographical Conversations with James Goodmon was made possible by the generous support of Frank Daniels, Jr.