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LITTLE RIVER ... WESTERN i
NORTH CAROLINA’S MOST
PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY
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of the best examples of progress in the
Little River Community is shown in this picture.
Below is the present home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Frady, and next to it is their new home which
will be completed soon. Earl is employed in the
Machine Room.
There’s no limit to what a community can do—
if it wants to! In less than two years the Little
River Community has advanced from just an
other "rural area” to the enviable position as West
ern North Carolina’s most progressive com*mu-
nity.
Developing a tremendous surge of community
pride during 1954, the Little River Community
emerged as winner in the Western North Caro
lina Rural Community Development contest. The
announcement was made this month at a meeting
in Asheville.
The Rural Development program in 14 West
ern North Carolina Counties started in 1950 with
three organized communities. Today there are
104 communities participating in the program,
six of which are in Transylvania County. The
Little River Community Club was organized with
125 families, and they joined the program in
1952.
During the year, members of the Little River
Community Club made tremendous improvement
in their farms and houses, and in the religious,
recreation, youth, health and educational programs
of the community.
Close on the heels of Little River were the other
five organized communities in the County—
Dunn’s Rock, Cedar Mountain, Balsam Grove,
Quebec and Lake Toxaway.
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