Historic Houses/Places
The Biltmore
House
- Experience the beauty of the world's largest house.
(http://www.biltmore.com)
Great
Smoky Mountain Railway - The
spirit of the mountains Reaches from the valley to
the sky; The beauty of each season is like a paintbrush
to the eye. Guests ride in comfortable, reconditioned
coaches, crown coaches, club cars, dining cars, and
open cars that are ideal for viewing the scenery and
taking pictures. (http://www.gsmr.com)
Historic
Johnson Farm - Listed on the National Register,
and owned by Henderson County Schools. A Heritage
Museum. Guided tours at 10:30 and 1:30. (http://www.johnsonfarm.org)
Stuart Nye - Stuart Nye Jewelers, handmade, hand wrought jewelry in Asheville, NC since 1933. (http://www.stuartnye.com)
Carl
Sandburg Home - Carl
Sandburg Home National Historic Site preserves Connemara,
the 245-acre farm where Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Carl Sandburg and his family lived the last 22 years
of his life. The farm consists of a 22 room house,
barns, sheds, rolling pastures, mountainside woods,
trails, two small lakes, a trout pond, flower and
vegetable gardens, and an orchard. (http://www.nps.gov/carl)
Thomas
Wolfe Memorial - Thomas Wolfe, one of America's
favorite authors, wrote "Look Homeward, Angel"
in 1929. Visit his boyhood home in beautiful downtown
Asheville. (http://www.wolfememorial.com)
Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace State Historic Site
- Vance Birthplace
is the reconstructed 1830s mountain farmstead where
Zebulon Vance, NC's Civil War governor was born. (http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/vance)
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