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43715
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"Ask anyone to name the signature hardwoods of Western North Carolina's mountains. They'll talk of chestnut, oaks, maple, walnut, and maybe hickory. Missing from most everyone's list will be the most heavily harvested hardwood--the one widely used by everyone from ancestors of the Cherokee people to makers of today's most modern furniture--the tulip tree, aka yellow poplar, or just plain poplar." Restorative benefits of tulip poplar were well know by the Cherokees. During the Civil War, poplar bark substituted for unavailable quinine as a cure for malaria.
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43733
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Throughout the mountains of Western North Carolina, there is a signature hardwood that has been used for centuries by indigenous people, early settlers, and modern architects. This important tree is known as the tulip tree or yellow poplar.
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A once typical site in every community, only three grist mills survive in the mountain regions of North Carolina. They include Francis Mill in Waynesville, Carolina Ground in Hendersonville and Mingus Mill in the Great Smoky National Park near Cherokee. Mingus and Francis Mills were initiated in the 1880s. Carolina Ground is a modern mill that relies essentially on the same technology employed by Mingus and Francis.
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"On May 21, 1540, Hernando de Soto, with most of his 620 conquistadors and the female chief of a Native American tribe he had taken hostage, arrived at Joara, a village at the base of teh Blue Ridge about 12 miles northwest of today's Morganton. De Soto's band would be the first Europeans to cross the mountains." In 1586,a generation later, Juan Pardo Pardo is credited with founding a Fort at Joara, the first European settlement in the interior of North Carolina,
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From free turnip seed, the tie-breaking ballot for building new courthouse was cast. From being built in Lapland, Zebulon Vance predicted the new courthouse would flourish. With a few years, Lapland was renamed Marshall, and a third courthouse was built. Today, the town renamed for a chief justice and its symbol of justice testify to Vance’s vision.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 16 Issue 11, November 2019,
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Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894; Marshall--Description and travel; Madison County--Description and travel; Madison County--history; Marshall--history ; Vance, Mira Margaret Baird, 1802-1878; Civil War; Biltmore Estate--architect--Richard Sharp Smith; Mars Hill University--Southern Appalachian Archives--Leo White Collection; North Carolina--governors