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37698
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The tearing down of the bridge between Chimney Rock and Lake Lure in 2010 necessitated a way to keep the towns connected and protect the aquatic ecosystem. By 2013, a garden on cement, cited as the second of its kind in the country, was a vision turned reality named Lake Lure Flowering Bridge.
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37897
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North Carolina has become well known as a site for filmmaking. Houses where scenes have been filmed include a historic house in Rodanthe, a house in Southport, Bellamy Hall in Wilmington, and Biltmore Estate in Asheville. Outdoor settings made famous through movies are Lake Lure, Dupont State Forest, and Chimney Rock. Noted examples of facilities serving as movie backdrops are Charlotte Motor Speedway and Durham Athletic Park.
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32610
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In the early 1920s, Dr. Lucius B. Morse envisioned a model resort area near Chimney Rock Park in Rutherford County. Descendants of Morse are beginning to fulfill his vision, as they develop various plans to expand Chimney Rock’s scenic attractions and improve recreation amenities.
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24542
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The author describes the Chimney Rock Hill Climb, a modern sporting event in which people participate in a car race on a route that covers part of Chimney Rock's twisting paths.
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16493
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This article provides the extraordinary account of a phenomenon--shining figures--that appeared to a number of people in Rutherford County in August, 1806.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 8 Issue 1, July 1960,
p27-28
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30817
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Big rocks are famous in North Carolina, and they draw tourists to their spectacular views on some of the highest mountains in the eastern United States. Hanging Rock, Blowing Rock, Chimney Rock, and the Devil's Courthouse are just a few of the peaks that North Carolina offers for hiking, landscape gazing, and other outdoor activities.
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13375
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Millions of people have visited the pioneer attraction of Chimney Rock. Until the Morse family got to work and dramatized the Chimney, this particular boulder was almost lost in the setting. A no other place in the state do the mountains rise so suddenly from the Piedmont, and the gorge magically opens a forbidding getaway.
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14534
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It has been only during recent years that the well-known and popular scenic attraction of Chimney Rock has been accessible to the public.
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15507
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On the steep slopes of Chimney Rock under the shadow of the Sugar Loaf Dome is a little colony of mountaineers who are almost completely isolated. Only twenty miles from Asheville, Rutherford County, this little community of nine families know little of the area outside their two square mile plateau.
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