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15131
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An ironic twist of fate has transformed the towering skeleton of a million dollar hotel on Jump-off Mountain near Hendersonville, North Carolina into a school building. Following the western North Carolina bonanza days of 1924-25, the half completed 13-story Fleetwood Hotel stood a constant reminder of a vanished dream. Four years ago a group of men pushed to the mountain top and began dismantling the structure, using pieces for new buildings for the Pisgah Institute, west of Asheville.
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15302
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In western North Carolina an azalea garden is being created on Biltmore Estate near Asheville. It is a fitting memorial to Chauncey Delos Beadle, superintendent of the estate for fifty years and who executed the extensive landscaping pattern drafted by the architect, Frederick Law Olmstead.
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15065
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October marks the beginning of bear hunting season for the western forests of North Carolina. Much of the best bear hunting grounds in the southern Appalachians have been incorporated into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and has become a game refuge.
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The Bingham Military Academy outside of Asheville graduated more than 5,000 graduates from its inception to closure in 1920. William Bingham began the school in the early 19th-century because he determined that students needed a thorough preparatory school before college. The school's history involved several moves before its final location in Asheville and headmaster duties passed through several generations of Bingham descendants.
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17097
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Francis Asbury was born in England and is considered the first bishop of American Methodism. He traveled extensively in America, covering over 6,000 miles annually. Hicklin recounts his time in North Carolina.
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15123
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Black Mountain College, founded by Rollins College staff after dissension over teaching methods, is probably the most unusual college in North Carolina. At the present time, workmen engaged in completing Black Mountain's new plant at Lake Eden include faculty members and students.
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15354
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Western North Carolina became a popular destination for campers during the 1930s. CCC workers constructed and enlarged facilities in both national and state forests. With nearly $4,000,000 invested, the parks were upgraded to include shelters, open-air ovens, garbage cans, fuel, drinking waters, and other accommodations for summertime campers.
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17025
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Hicklin describes how different Christmas celebrations were in the antebellum days from what they are today.
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15436
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Traditions and customs of the Old South, half-forgotten in the building of the new South, bob to the surface during the Christmas season. Firecrackers are common, Yule logs burn, and cowpeas and hog jowl are popular dishes. While the origin of these customs remains obscure, some trace them directly to the restricted life of early great plantations and poor communication facilities, which made them communities within themselves. Customs brought by the pioneer settlers of Europe were also preserved and altered to meet conditions of the area.
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15124
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Craggy Gardens, said to be the largest and loftiest flower gardens in the world, are to become predominant background for western North Carolina future rhododendron festivals. Craggy Gardens is semi-public property, belonging to the United States government and the city of Asheville. While Craggy Gardens have been a mecca for many years for hardy beauty lovers who could scale the deep heights of Craggy Dome, it was not until 1933 that a motor road to the crest allowed more visitors to enjoy the flowers and the view.
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15329
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Eliada Orphanage, located in Asheville, opened its doors in 1922. During the first fifteen years of operation, Eliada Orphanage housed thousands of homeless kids. Dr. Lucius B. Compton founded the orphanage as well as the Faith Cottage, a reform school for troubled girls.
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17022
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Horace Kephart did more than any other person in making North Carolina--and the nation as a whole--appreciative of the Great Smokies.
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15172
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John W. Squires reported an increase of nabbing poachers in Pisgah National Forest. Poachers used spotlights to blind and confuse wildlife then proceed to hunt. One species in danger was the Virginia white-tail deer, an animal stocked by George W. Vanderbilt around his Biltmore Estate and later partially incorporated into Pisgah National Forest. Numbers of poachers apprehended from November 1937 to May 1, 1938 totaled twenty in the Pisgah Game Preserve and an additional twenty-two in Sherwood State Refuge. The solution was to place additional wardens armed with flashlights and revolvers at strategic points throughout the preserve.
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15049
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There was a gold rush in North Carolina during the early 19th-century, and the state also had its own privately owned mint run by Christopher Bechtler and recognized by the Federal Government.
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Hicklin recounts the story of how George Mills, a sixteen-year-old slave, brought the body of his master, Captain Watt Bryson, Company G, 35th Regiment N.C.T., back from a Maryland battlefield where he had been killed in 1863.
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