From a print in the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives (P1-44-S95-H76; 84-55). Caption on back of index image reads: “Children gathering wood at Sunburst, NC about 1910.”
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Sunburst, NC:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=sunburst+nc&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Sunburst,+Haywood,+North+Carolina&gl=us&ei=x4wrS-fzHtG0tgftrvH6CA&ved=0CAkQ8gEwAA&ll=35.41066,-82.932079&spn=0.567462,1.231842&z=10
We’ve got a postcard from Sunburst, NC in our digital collection …
http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/nc_post&CISOPTR=2199&CISOBOX=1&REC=1
My great grandfather Tom Queen was a lumberman at Sunburst. His wife, Annie Jones Queen Bradley, ran the store or cooked there from what I have been able to find out. Tom was killed in a train wreck Sep 22, 1925. My grandmother was only 15 when he died. Would love to find old pictures of that area. I have found a few but know there are more out there.
There are a couple of nice historic photos of the Sunburst Mill at Lake Logan on DigitalNC.org:
http://library.digitalnc.org/u?/ncimages,1656
http://library.digitalnc.org/u?/ncimages,1663
These are from the local history collection at the Haywood County Public Library: http://www.haywoodlibrary.org/.
My dad worked in the logging camps when he was a young man. My oldest brother was born there prematurely. My mom would tell that he was so small she kept him in a shoe box close to the fireplace to stay warm. According to my parents it was a rough life but Sunburst always kept a place in their hearts.