Markle Foundation provided funds for a building, completed in 1931, containing a community library, a meeting room, a clinic, and on the upper floor spaces for woodwork, weaving, and pottery. The local people sold crafts, honey, and molasses Eleanor Roosevelt visited and made a purchase on July 3, 1934. The Markle Building also temporarily housed the local school. It formed part of a group of masonry buildings including the Holland Memorial Church and Kirksedge Cottage. The Markle Handicraft School was a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild. The Markle Foundation was the major beneficiary of John Markle's will on his death in 1933, but later changed its focus and cut off funding to Higgins. Jane Jacobs, the urban activist and writer, was Robison's niece and lived with her in Higgins for six months in 1934. ^ "Higgins (in Yancey County, NC)", North Carolina Home Town Locator, retrieved April 28, 2017.She later used Higgins, under the name "Henry", as an example in Cities and the Wealth of Nations, analyzing its decline as the result of its being cut off by bad roads from cities, so that the people had been reduced to subsistence and over generations had forgotten the skills they once had, and even that such skills existed for example, that a church could be built of stone. ^ United States Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information System, ID 1020728, June 17, 1980.^ a b Robert Kanigel, Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs, New York: Knopf, 2016, ISBN 9780307961907, p. 54].^ Elaine McAlister Dellinger and Kiesa Kay, Yancey County, Images of America, Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia, 2011, ISBN 9780738587608, p. 2. Powell and Michael Hill, The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History, 2nd ed. ^ Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs, ed.^ Jane Jacobs, Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life, New York: Random House, 1984, ISBN 9780394480473, pp. 124–29.^ a b Carolyn Sakowski, Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads, Touring the Backroads Series, 3rd ed.^ "History Association Meeting", Estatoee, XIII.2, Yancey History Association, May 1998, p. 1.Ĭhapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina, 2010, ISBN 9780807833995, p. 241. Laurence, Becoming Jane Jacobs, The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2016, ISBN 9780812247886, p. 20.Ĭoordinates: 35★7′34″N 82☂2′49″W / 35.959556°N 82.380153°W / 35.959556 -82.(Left Click Audio Button to Listen - Right Click Audio Button to Save File) Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring, Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2017, ISBN 9780345812018, n.p.
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