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22271
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Dr. Lucius B. Morse purchased Chimney Rock, a 2,280-foot tall, 535 million-year-old monolith, in 1902. Although a stairway to the top had been in use for the previous seventeen years, it was wearing down. Lucas hired Guilford Nanney, a carpenter-builder, to build a new trail system. Before he was hired, Nanney had built houses. Several of his Queen Anne-style homes in Rutherford County are on the National Historic Register. Miles recounts his work at Chimney Rock.
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23776
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In the early 1900s, George Masa (1881-1933) braved the wild to photograph the pristine Appalachian Mountains. As a result of his actions, much of the mountains have been protected for generations to come.
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23742
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Following the Revolutionary War, a group of far western North Carolina counties attempted to create their own State of Franklin. It had its own governor, legislature, and state capitol but failed to survive statehood.
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23642
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Black Mountain College was the brain child of John A. Rice, Jr. and was considered one of the most forward-thinking higher learning liberal arts centers of its time. The college supported a thorough inclusion of the arts in its education program.
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The 65-year-old Rhododendron Festival on Roan Mountain celebrates the Mountain Rosebay or Purple Laurel, also called Rhododendron. The festival started in 1947 when two communities, Roan Mountain, Tennessee, and Bakersville, North Carolina, explored ways to boost the economy through tourism.
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Born in 1858 in Rutherford County, James Vester Miller was the son of a slave, Louisa, and her white owner. After the Civil War, his mother took her three children and made her way to Asheville. There Miller's interest in building developed and he was soon considered one of the city's master masons. He formed a company, Miller & Sons Construction, which specialized in churches and commercial buildings during the late 1880s and early 20th century. Among his noted works are the Post Office & Federal Building, later torn down, St. Matthias Episcopal Church, St. James A.M.E. Church, and Hopkins Chapel. He was also instrumental in the establishment of Violet Hill Cemetery for African Americans in West Asheville.
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23811
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Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, Sr. and surveyor Thomas Freeman were tasked in the late 1800s with the responsibility of designating the territory line between U.S. and Cherokee land.
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22449
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The cultivation of tobacco was not unique to Eastern North Carolina comes to mind. The cash crop was also grown in the state's western mountains where those who worked in tobacco faced numerous difficulties.
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23725
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Miles discusses the suffering and loss of North Carolina's regiments during the battle of Gettysburg.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 2 Issue 1, January/February 2008,
p100-111, il
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23736
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The 496-mile Blue Ridge Parkway is a paradigm of landscaping and engineering genius. The authors discuss the history of the parkway and some of the more notable stops.
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22418
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After Daniel Boone, North Carolina's most famous mountain man was Big Tom Wilson, who was a noted guide, tracker, bear hunter, and master story teller who lived in Yancey County. However, it was leading a search party to find Elisha Mitchell's body in 1857 that brought him nationwide fame. Mitchell's claim that Black Mountain was the highest in the Appalachians had been challenged and he fell to his death remeasuring the mountain. Black Mountain was later named Mt. Mitchell in his honor when his claim was proven.
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23771
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Robert Morgan was a pilot during World War II from Asheville. The author discusses his life and accomplishments.
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22352
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Miles examines the \"pioneering, Western North Carolina-based natural medicine manufacturer S. B. Penick and Co.\" who dominated the business for years. He founded his company in Marion in 1914, and with the advent of World War I and the need for medicine, his business increased tenfold.
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23799
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Lesley Riddle, an African American musician from Burnsville, was an early influence in country music in Western North Carolina in the 1930s and 1940s.
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22355
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William Bartram, son of the famous royal botanist John Bartram, left Philadelphia in 1773, on a four-year botanizing expedition across the Southeast. Part of his travels took him through seventy-four miles of western North Carolina. He is considered the father of American botany. Today his route is maintained by the NC Bartram Trail Society.
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