Museums
Come Day-Trippin' with Us Through the Yadkin Valley
May 17, 2012
Two vineyards with tours and wine tastings. A fabulous museum and equally incredible art center. No driving. No cooking. No worries. What a great way to visit someof the Heritage Treasures the beautiful Yadkin Valley, North Carolina's first federally-recognized American Viticultural Area (AVA)!
Come Wine-ing Through the Yadkin Valley with Us!
Read more about Come Wine-ing Through the Yadkin Valley with Us!Mountain Heritage Classes Project
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Read more about Stabilization and Rehabilitation of the Historic Carson House BarnCherokee Homestead Exhibit in Hayesville
Read more about Cherokee Homestead Exhibit in HayesvilleMount Airy
Read more about Mount AiryMount 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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Early History
On May 29, 1893 Southern Railway's "Number 11" deposited a travel-weary band of twenty-nine souls from Northern Italy who were to break ground for a settlement. They were called the Waldensians, and that settlement became the Town of Valdese.
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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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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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