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Manuel Hooper, center, who grew up on Caney Fork but later moved to Haywood County’s Saunook community, is shown at Old Bald with some companions in this pre-1928 photo brought to us by Danny Hooper of Balsam, one of Manuel’s grandsons. Now part of the Roy Taylor National Forest, Old Bald was once an area where cattle grazed. It’s a long, high ridge that connects the Blue Ridge Parkway and Caney Fork, and, before it became part of the Nantahala National Forest around 1980, Mead Corp. allowed free range there. According to Jim Sellers of Sylva, some 200 head of cattle once grazed the area’s grassy slopes. “It was mostly cattle and maybe a few hogs,” Jim said, adding Old Bald was mostly used as pasture by people from Brasstown and Caney Fork. For more information, see this week’s Ruralite Cafe on page 4A. The Herald publishes either a “Back Then” or “Then and Now” feature each week and all of them are archived online at www.thesylvaherald.com. The newspaper welcomes reader-submitted photos; for information, contact Nick Breedlove at 586-2611, ext. 310, or nick@thesylvaherald.com
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