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Title: North Carolina and its resources
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Stewart, M. I. (Moses I.) prt Stewart, J. C. (John C.) prt North Carolina. Board of Agriculture
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Publisher: Winston : M.I. & J.C. Stewart, public printers and binders
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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a knoll, commanding splendid views of mountain and valley.It is but five minutes from a station and can be reached by throughsleepers from New York and Cincinnati. It goes without saying that the house is perfect in all modernimprovements and appointments, admirably kept, and provided withgolf and tennis grounds. It has twenty acres of lawn and a superbwoodland park of 140 acres in extent, with miles on miles of accessible drives. Arden Park, Between Asheville and Hendersonville, nine miles from the former onthe Asheville and Spartanburg R. R., has an excellent hotel largelypatronized by exclusive guests from the cotton and cane States, as wellas by the same class from the North. Hendersonville . Hendersonville, long a favorite resoit for the aristocracy of thesouth, is warmer and dryer than other towns along the Ridge, welllaid out and shaded streets, good water and charming scenery. Itshotels are comfortable, well kept, at moderate prices, and attract aSteady custom year after year.
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FALLS ON QUEENS CREEK RAPIDS—NANTAHALA RIVER, Mountain Resorts. 295 Flat Rock. Also on the Asheville & Spartanburg railroad is a collection ofexquisite stone villas surrounded by beautiful grounds, built by thewealthiest class of South Carolinians. It has to some extent lost theexclusive character of its former years, and is one of the most delight-ful and interesting villages in the south. As a resort it is unsurpassedfor healthfulness, beauty and romantic associations. St. Johns-in-the-Wilderness, a sanctuary erected by the people from the lowcountry is attractive to all who have read The Land of the Sky.Count and Countess du Choiseul sleep quietly in their tombs near theentrance, and a finely graded road leads to their lonely Chateau. Hot Springs. This resort is treated elsewhere under the head of MineralSprings. Until its recent development by the Southern ImprovementCompany it had not the facilities for entertaining guests all the yearround. The Company owns 4,000 acres at

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