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Photo by Diana Davies, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives.Ashe County, which touches the Tennessee and Virginia borders, is touted by residents — many of them part-time dwellers who are otherwise “city folk” — as the “coolest corner of North Carolina.” And indeed, the year-round temperatures are lower owing to the higher elevations and what seems, in those neighborhoods of cabins now sprouting in the mountains, like thick, tall trees that create a perpetual shade.
In one location in Lansing you can fly-fish for trout, take a hike, go mountain biking – even play horseshoes! And less than a half mile away you can visit the Lost Province. That’s a big day in a town that covers less than a half square mile! Morning
Copper mine operated intermittently, 1850s to 1962. Site of Ore Knob, boom mining town, inc. 1875. Shafts 1 mile N.
American botanist and Harvard professor. In July 1841, investigated the region's flora. Headquarters was in house that stood 50 yds. N.
NORTH CAROLINA / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for independence, Apr. 12, 1776 b/w VIRGINIA / First permanent English colony in America, 1607, one of thirteen original states. Richmond, the capital, was seat of Confederate government.
NORTH CAROLINA / Colonized, 1585-87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for independence, Apr. 12, 1776 b/w VIRGINIA / First permanent English colony in America, 1607, one of thirteen original states. Richmond, the capital, was seat of Confederate government.