North Carolina education . RATTLESNAKE LODGE—RAFTERS PAPEKEU WITH SNAKE SKINS. complete cyclorama in view from its summit, are otherbeautiful drives on the west side of the French Broad, asis Richmond Hill, the home of Richmond Pearson, form-er United States Minister to Greece.* * * Gouches Peak and Elk Mountain, north of Asheville,and Busbee, on the south, are commanding peaks withgood carriage drives to the top. Beaverdam valley, andthe Fairview road, afford delightful views of mountainscenery. Mountain Meadow Inn, the Switzerland of America,seven miles from Asheville, perched high on the st
North Carolina education . RATTLESNAKE LODGE—RAFTERS PAPEKEU WITH SNAKE SKINS. complete cyclorama in view from its summit, are otherbeautiful drives on the west side of the French Broad, asis Richmond Hill, the home of Richmond Pearson, form-er United States Minister to Greece.* * * Gouches Peak and Elk Mountain, north of Asheville,and Busbee, on the south, are commanding peaks withgood carriage drives to the top. Beaverdam valley, andthe Fairview road, afford delightful views of mountainscenery. Mountain Meadow Inn, the Switzerland of America,seven miles from Asheville, perched high on the steepslope of one of the spurs of the Craggy range, is reachedby a glorious drive with magnificent, lofty, distant moun-tain vistas all the -J*^- - X SOURCE OF ASHEVILLES WATER SUPPLY. Both the roaring French Broad and the sunnynannoa are followed for miles from Asheville by Swan-smooth 10 JfOfttH CAROLINA EDUCATiON. [April, 1910. roads. Buck Shoals, the former home of Bill Nye, is tenmiles up the Tahkeeostee. Down the French Broadfour miles cue finds the Weaver power plant, and thegreat dam which forms Lake Tahkeeostee. Ip the Swan-nanoa is situated the Farm School, where alxnit lOii :;: * * boys are studying books and fields. Asheville is the departing point for mountain trips oflong desire and known delight, for those who have . . smelled wood smoke at have seen the camp tire are quick to read the noises of the night. The mountain sides in .Tune are covered with purpleand white rhododendron in splendid bloom. Famous Pisgah, with Vanderbilts lodge a-top, grandold Craggy dome and pinnacle, and wild Mitchell, kingof all the high places east of the Rockies, can be reach-ed and the leturn trip m
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