VACATION TOURS IN NORTH CAROLINA
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\ E of fhc most sprrturulnr
lours in IVorlh Carolina! Is th«*
trip lo the lop of Blount >■ 1 1
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Mr*. Henderson desrribes il
In detail in the accompnnylnK
arllrle.
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Towr,,., majestically .bo,, «he roll-
in, upland. of Piedmont Carolina,
the .onthern Appalachian. compriw
(hr lighot ground ra.t of the Rock¬
ies From A.beville. (be heart of
thia vacation land, every popular re-
,ion ii arccedble. The region nonh¬
ead of (hi. city i. a va.t territory
of .cenlc wonder., through which even
a euraorj trip «„ring the main high¬
way., cannot be taken in leu than
thr^e day..
The fir.t objective tour through
thi. region of high -top. ia a vi.it to
Ml. Mitchell which, towering 6.711
f(M above an level. ia tl
point of land ia Kaitern America;
bat il ia wot an iulatcd peak by any
Al.ce, via
Шаек
Mountain.
of Mile bell with ere*,
lofty. From AaheviDe we may reach
ia a few hour, drive over
of two road.- one by Camp
nuin. the Other
Tom Wilaon road' which goes up thf
northwest aide of the niountaiu.
Leaving Asheville
Wo I rave A.hcvillc via Kcaverdam
Lake ami .kirt ita ahore line on our
left. In a few mile, we paw the
highway leading to Knoxville, and
hero
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pauie to aee the aite of
Waraaw, the once lovely old colonial
of Mra. \t. S. Porter,
■ immortal husband. 0.
Henry, anent hia laat winter. Un¬
fortunately tbit historic old place
waa destroyed by fire, but there are
and WeaverTille ia located Ihila
Spring. Hotel, quite twipular nwort
Iceaiue of ita excellent mineral
•pring^ A .hort diatanro beyond the
town limit, we may detour over the
Rmna Creek rveon.truetod road,
which connect. Weavervllle and
Beech. Thirty feet from thia road¬
way aland, the hiatoric though hum¬
ble birthplace of our war governor —
the ailver-tongucd Zeb Vance.
The hand-hewn timber., the great
fc replace and quaint architecture at¬
test to the .kill of our ante-bellum
Вик
to No.
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ju.t 7 miles hay aw I
Westerville, ws turn ofl at Stoek.-
ville to follow N. C No. 6*1 tbrowgh
Barnariaville to the entrance of the
Big Tom Wil«a toll rosd. We
could go via No. 69 through Bunu-
ville, but the route over 691 lead,
through wildly apeetacular acenery
at it w antler, over ami through the
glory of the Craggiea. The chief
attraction ia, of count), the Craggy
Rhotlolnndron Garden, which are
truly the work of nature in her moM
Uviah mood. Thc«, rhododendron
garden, .tretch for mile along the
crcwt of the high mountain., covering
in their entirely more than CrtO acres
with rhododendron* rearhing an
попам,
aixe — une leing
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feet
Ull. The wind and weather have
warped, gnarled and dwarfed the trees
bine
Л,
these tree, look ,
they may have teen borrowed from
a Japs new
Say**
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The aberration tower on tho «rest of
Mount Mitch* IL
A. the road wind, ami twi»t» among
the pieak* Craggy Knob, Cr.ggv
Home and Craggy Pinnacle -it a f-
for,la from variotu .tragetic polnu a
tnartelou. view far-flung out over
Pensacola Valley, thi. the loveliest
of valley., laid out with checker-
board precision in farm., orchard*,
meadow., and .plit by the •hitting
water, of serpentine Caney River —
all circled by m<
in virgin timber.,
wind, downward to
of
У
(Часу
River n it
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Gradually the road
high clciatioa op on
artia*.
