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Landmark on Cherokee boundary, negotiated by Gov. William Tryon and Cherokee chiefs, 1767. Elevation 3,231 feet.

Engineer and inventor. Pioneered advances in textile mill air conditioning. Home 3 mi. SW.

Congregation organized by 1791. Cemetery and present building, the church's fourth, are one mile west.

Begun in 18th century by Hartsoe, Hilton, Johnson, Propst, Ritchie, Seagle, and Reinhardt families living in 4 mi. radius.

The steepest, standard gauge, mainline railway grade in the U.S. Opened in 1878; three mi. long. Crests here.

Minister, politician, & author. Film "Birth of a Nation" was based on his novel The Clansman. Grave is 1500 ft. N.

Author of The Mind of The South. Editor & journalist. His grave is located 1600 ft. N.

Lutheran. A precursor of Lenoir-Rhyne College; burned, 1935. Church now on site 1 block south.

Built in 1843 for Irish immigrant gold miners. Fourth Catholic church built in state. This is the original building.

Superior Court judge; a founder of Catawba College; state senator & Confederate colonel. His home stood here.