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North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio

Resource ID: 1495

Type: non-fiction, book

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UPDATED: 10.4.2025

Melungeons, Mixed Ancestry Peoples, History, Populations, Race+Ethnicity, Flora+Fauna+Funga, Folk Medicine, Regional, Culture
grave houses, bluegill, corn, grave markers, mushrooms, ghosts, bread, corn bread, graves, mustard, witches, breastfeeding, corncob dolls, greens, pork, moonshine, broom making, cornmeal, hard cider, potatoes, beans, bullhead, corn whiskey, hazelnuts, tomatoes, apples, cabbages, dandelion greens, herbs, walnuts, alder bark, butternuts, ferns, hickory nuts, warts, alcohol, burial practices, foraging, intermarriage, whiskey, baskets, cabins, deer, lambs, wolf, beadwork, calves, education, linwood, beechnuts, catfish, eggs, livestock, Free Persons of Color, berries, cats, farms, marriage patterns, music, bitternut, cattle, frogs, maple syrup, pottery, blackberries, census data, given names, medicine woman, bootlegging, black maple, chickens, gooseberries, mink, tobacco, blueberries, child rearing, grapes, molasses

author:

John S. Kessler, Donald B. Ball

editor:

N. Brent Kennedy

publisher:

Mercer University Press

date:

6.30.2001

ISBN:

9780865547032

pages:

238

notes:

. . .

contents:

table/chart - photos - bibliography - index - map

description:

North 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.

Kessler and Ball's study combines a review of documentary evidence, extensive firsthand observations of the group, and information gleaned from area Informants and visits to the Carmel area. John Kessler was a resident of a nearby community until about age eighteen - hence the personal insight and perspective into the lifestyle and inter- and intrarelationships of the group.

ancestors:

Meredith Collins | Bradley Collins | Zachariah Gibson | Valentine Collins b.1765

surnames:

places:

peoples:

events:

Revolutionary War | Civil War | Spanish-American War | World War I | World War II

flora + fauna:

mentions:

Squaw Winter | Folklore of Highland County, Ohio

CMOS:

John S. Kessler and Donald B. Ball. North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio. 1st ed. The Melungeons: History, Culture, Ethnicity & Literature. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2001.

MLA:

North from the Mountains: A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio

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