Roberts, Charles Blanton (1874-1939) Papers, 1881-1938
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Roberts, Charles Blanton, 1874-1939
Title: Papers, 1881-1938
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.
Size of Collection: 0.66 cubic feet
Location Number: Mss. A R643
Scope and Content Note
Papers include correspondence, 1906-1938, about the publication of Roberts’ articles about the building of Middlesboro, Ky., a proposed monument to Middlesboro’s founder Alexander A. Arthur, the defacement of Pinnacle Mountain at Cumberland Gap, and Roberts genealogy; drafts of his published articles; a 1 Dec. 1887 contract between the Cumberland Gap Tunnel Co., Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co., and Powell’s Valley Railroad Co. for building a tunnel through Cumberland Mountain; a report of a mass meeting of Middlesboro’s citizens, 1881 Mar. 19; and newspaper clippings regarding his articles, Col. David Grant Colson, Middlesbora, and the Cumberland Gap.
Folder List
Box 1
Photographs, postcards.
1 Correspondence, 1906-1915.
2 Correspondence, 1927.
3 Correspondence, 1932.
4 Correspondence, 1933.
5 Correspondence, 1938.
6 The Building of Middlesborough . . .
7 Drafts of article on The Building of Middlesborough . . .
8 A British Adventure in America . . .
9 A British Adventure in America: the vicissitudes of a Kentucky boom town.
10 Iron ore.
11 Cumberland Gap and the Kentucky coal fields.
12Mossieof Thunderbolt Gap. A tale of the Cumberlands.
13 Notes, memoranda, etc.
14TheCase of Bull-Back Jones. (newspaper clipping), 1901 Apr. 21.
15TheRed and the Black, 1902 Oct. 4.
16 Christmas on Staten Island, 1910 Jan. 8.
17ThePrussian Nimrod, 1916 Dec. 26.
18 Contract between the Cumberland Gap Tunnel Co., the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. and the Powell’s Valley Railroad Co. about a tunnel through the Cumberland Mountain, 1887 Dec. 1.
19 Report of the mass meeting of the citizens of Middlesborough, Ky. 1891 Mar. 19.
Box 2
20 Newspaper articles by and about Alexander A. Arthur, founder of Middlesborough, Ky.; pictures of his home and his tomb.
21 Magazine articles about Middlesborough, Ky. and the mountain country.
22 Newspaper clippings about Middlesborough, Ky.
23 “Happenings in Middlesborough Twenty Years Ago.” Newspaper clippings, 1911-1912.
24 Obituary of David Grant Colson (1861-1904), 1904 Oct. 1.Article about him entitled “Nonsense, Gentlemen.”
25 Newspaper clippings about the Frank Ball trouble at Cumberland Gap and feuds in Ky.
26 Newspaper clippings about southern mountaineers.
27Miscellaneousnewspaper clippings.
28 Newspaper clippings about the defacement of Pinnacle Mountain, Cumberland Gap.
