Record #:

8387

Author(s):

Greene, Clarence H.

Abstract:

The original Cloudland Hotel, a twenty-room room log structure atop Roan Mountain, was constructed in 1879 by L. B. Searle of Chattanooga, TN. After a fire in 1880 destroyed the resort, the landowner, General John Thomas Wilder, replaced the log cabin with a 166-room hostelry, built on the North Carolina/Tennessee line. Wilder called it “The Great Southern Resort for Hay Fever” and said its mountain air, at a more than 6,000-foot elevation, and its fresh cold water helped people with respiratory problems. This drew visitors from all over the country for two decades. Its doors closed in 1903 and the hotel was demolished in 1919. Only the foundation remains.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 51 Issue 12, May 1984, p12, 13, por

Subject(s):

Health resorts--Mitchell County