![“Reverend J. Norton Atkins [?] Traveling by Buggy, Watauga County, North Carolina, Early 20th Century”](https://library.appstate.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/reverend_atkins.jpg "“Reverend J. Norton Atkins [?] Traveling by Buggy, Watauga County, North Carolina, Early 20th Century”")
The Special Collections Research Center posted a story about some of the earliest photographers of the local area. Documents held in the Special Collections Research Center were a part of the collection of Reverend J. Norton Atkins (1881-1962), a clergyman of the Episcopal Church resided in Watauga County in the early 1900s. Learn more about the collection.