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On the French Broad River, steamboat Mountain Lily carried passengers for a very brief time. During the summer of 1881, the steamboat attempted to run between Hendersonville, Brevard, and Asheville, but stranded after tumultuous weather blocked the river channel with sand and mud. Navigation throughout the French Broad River Valley was the brainchild of Colonel S. V. Pickens, who chartered the French Broad Steamboat Company and constructed Mountain Lily. After foundering at Johnson's Bridge, a Baptist congregation used the vessels as a meeting place until it was dismantled sometime later.
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Cleveland County concentrated on agriculture in 1943. Located at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Cleveland County produced more county than any other in the state. Though the county boasted agricultural wealth, industry compromised a portion of Cleveland County's prosperity. Twenty-seven textile plants employed 6,000 employees. Colonial Mica Corporation profited off the natural abundance of the mineral in Cleveland County. Workers mined mica within county limits and the raw material was processed for electrical components. Another resource mined was spodumene or a lithium aluminum silicate important to the military for weapons manufacturing.
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