North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, OhioNorth from the Mountains is the latest in the series, the Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity, and Literature. This is the first substantive study of the Carmel Melungeon settlement since 1950. Tracing the Carmel Melungeon's history from about 1700, Ball and Kessler offer extensive firsthand information about the settlement and relate the Carmel population to the Melungeons and similar mixed-blood populations of the Mid-Atlantic coastal region. |
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Location and Natural Environment | 7 |
The Cultural Landscape | 13 |
History and Origins of the Carmel Melungeons | 19 |
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adjacent African Americans American Triracial Isolates ancestry associated Beale Berry Branch Brush Creek Township cabin Carmel area Carmel Indians Carmel Melungeons Cemetery census census schedules Cherokee classified as white Collins colony Culture Darke County discussed early Eastern United Edward Thomas Price enclave families farm Floyd County Folklore of Highland Fork Free African Americans genetic Gibson Goins gravestones Graysville group members Guineas Hancock County Heinegg Highland County hill country Hillsboro household Ibid idem individuals inscriptions interments Kentucky known Knoxville Magoffin County McBride Melungeon settlement Melungeon surnames Melungeon-related mestizos Mid-Atlantic Mixed Blood Populations Mixed-Blood Strain Moore mountains mulatto Mullins names Native American Negro Nichols North Carolina noted observed Occaneechi-Saponi Ohio Genealogical Society origins Perkins Pike County Press Pugsley Racial recorded region Remnant residents Salyersville Shawnee Sinking Spring social South specifically Squaw Winter Strain of Carmel Surviving Indian Groups Tennessee Anthropologist tribal University West Virginia Whitley County William