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Town of North Wilkesboro

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Mountain Heritage Classes Project

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W. Kerr Scott Reservoir Environmental Education Center

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Old-Time Music Heritage Hall

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Cherokee Homestead Exhibit in Hayesville

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Mount Airy

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Mount Airy

Before there was a state of North Carolina, indeed before there was a United States of America, as early as the 1750s settlers began to gather in the area now known as Mount Airy.  A stopover point on a much-traveled road that ran from Salem, NC,  into Virginia, the community grew into a small town by the 1830s.

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Brevard

The historic small town of Brevard is the county seat of Transylvania County, also known as "the land of the waterfalls." The community is surrounded by nature and the Pisgah National Forest.

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Highlands

The town of Highlands was supposed to become a hub of commerce in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, had its founders had their way.  In 1875, two developers in Kansas drew two lines--one between New York and New Orleans, the other from Chicago to Savannah.  Where the lines crossed, they believed would become a crossroads of trade. 

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Elkin

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