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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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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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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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35177
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The retelling of the spectre cavalry fight which was circulated by newspapers all over the country in 1811. Supposedly, several inhabitants of the pass had seen a ghostly battle ensue, complete with sights, sounds, victors, and losers. Twenty years after the event, the author went to the ravine to explore and was guided by a grandson of one of the original story’s claimants. The guide assured him that it was merely a trick of the light and temperature differences that made the people see what they believed to be a supernatural phenomenon.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 9 Issue 2, Dec 1961,
p23-26
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