The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North CarolinaZeigler, Wilbur Gleason
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The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina
Zeigler, Wilbur Gleason
Allegheny Mountains; North Carolina -- Description and travel
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NAME. |Altitude | Number
| in feet.| of miles.
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Waynesville, C. H. | 2756 | 1
Love’s View | 2950 | at the place
Spring Hill | 2850 | at the place
Mount Maria Love (Rocky Knob) about | 5000 | 1
Jonathan’s Creek (trout stream) | 3000 | 6 to 10
Cataloochee (trout stream) | 2500 | 20
Tennessee Line | 2000 | 32
Indian Nation | 2300 | 20
Soco Falls, about | 4000 | 16
Soco Gap, about | 4250 | 15
Soco (Bunche’s) Bald | 6200 | 18
Bunche’s Creek Falls | 4000 | 20
Scott’s Creek, 8 miles; Balsam Tunnel | 3200 | 7
Crab-tree Bald, about | 6000 | foot 13, top 16
Chambers’ Mountain, about | 5000 | 9
Pisgah | 5757 | 18
T. Lenoir’s Farm | 2800 | 12
Pigeon River | | 6 to 12
Pigeon River Ford | | 12½
Cold Mountain | 6063 | 10
Lickstone Mountain (carriage road to top) | 5800 | 7
Caney Fork, Balsam, and Great Divide | 6425 | 10
Mount Serbal (Westner’s Bald) | 6100 | 8
Mount Junaluska (Plott) | 6225 | foot 3, top 5
Mount Clingman, about | 6690 | top 50
Mount Buckley, about | 6650 | top 52
Webster, 20 miles; Franklin | 1900 | 40
Hendersonville | 2167 | 45
Charleston, Swain County | 1700 | 38
De Hart’s Springs | 1600 | 48
Micadale | 3000 | 3
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Splendid drives all around the Springs. Scenery not surpassed, if
equalled, east of the Rocky Mountains.
W. W. STRINGFIELD, Proprietor.
Waynesville, N. C.
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CÆSAR’S HEAD HOTEL,
SITUATED UPON
CÆSAR’S HEAD MOUNTAIN
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