Chimney Rock Park and Hickory Nut Gorge
$76.22
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2008
Summary
From the opening of Chimney Rock Park by Jerome Freeman in 1890 to Dr. Lucius Morse’s dreams for Lake Lure in the 1920s, the development of tourism in the Hickory Nut Gorge area is one of the untold stories of the region’s history. For much of the 19th century, the area was remote and known to few; Freeman was perhaps the first to truly appreciate Chimney Rock’s potential, but it took the invention of the automobile and the completion of the Charlotte to Asheville Highway in 1915 for that pot…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780738553177 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0738553174 |
| Series: | Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Author: | J. Timothy Cole |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing (SC) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2008 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 167mm x 233mm |
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About The Author
J. Timothy Cole
J. Timothy Cole is a librarian at Greensboro Public Library. His publications include The Rumbling Mountain of Hickory Nut Gap (1990), The Forest City Lynching of 1900 (2003), Collett Leventhorpe, The English Confederate (2007), and articles in Our State and Georgia Backroads. Most of the images herein are from Coles own collection, built over many years.
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