My initial intention for this post (one in a series on Enka) was to investigate the presence of Black workers at the Dutch-owned American Enka plant in Buncombe County’s Hominy…
Read moreEngineer by Mail: John Whisnant’s Early Years at American Enka, 1933-1941
NOTE TO READERS: This is the fourth in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, where it…
Read moreEnka Builds a Labor Force: The Magic of Native-Born Mountain Workers
NOTE TO READERS: This is the third in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, and its…
Read more“The Best and Most Prosperous City”: American Enka and the Imagined Transformation of Asheville
NOTE TO READERS: This is the second in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, and its…
Read moreA New Vision for Old Hominy Valley: The Coming of the Enka Plant (Part 1)
NOTE TO READERS: This is the first in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, and its…
Read moreAsheville and the Enka Clock Tower
In this brief post I am not telling anyone much that most Ashevillians (and those in numerous online networks) don’t already know. I just mean to urge that those who…
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