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Surrounded by Six National Forests
Minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway
White Water Rafting
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Enjoy the Mountains of North Carolina
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Line Runner Ridge Cabin
Tuck your family into the Two Bedroom Cabin. Sip a drink on the deck and watch the sun set before dinner and settle down with the glow of the wood stove...
Relax, you are in the mountains now....
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Highlands NC
Highland
A Brief History of Highlands, N.C.
The small town of Highlands was founded in 1875 by two developers living in Kansas who, according to legend, took a map in hand and drew a line from New York to New Orleans. Then they passed another line between Chicago and Savannah. These lines, they predicted, would be the great trade routes of the future, and where they crossed would some-day be a great population center.
What evolved was a health and summer resort at more than 4,000 feet on the highest crest of the western North Carolina plateau in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. This paradisial settlement, the highest incorporated town east of the Rockies, provided common ground for both Northern and Southern pioneers a decade after their great Civil War. By 1883 nearly 300 immigrants from the Eastern states were calling Highlands home. In the early 1880s the town contained 8 country stores specializing in groceries, hardware, and general merchandise; a post office, a hotel and boarding house for summer guests, a public library, four churches, and a first-class school. Very little changed in the town until the late 1920s, when the Cullasaja River was dammed, forming Lake Sequoyah, to provide hydroelectric power.
A spectacularly scenic road from Highlands toward Franklin was carved into the rock walls of the Cullasaja Gorge, and the muddy roads in and out of town were reinforced with crushed stone. By the time the Chamber of Commerce was established in 1931, the town’s population had increased to 500 with 2,500–3,000 summer guests and 25 businesses
Again, very little changed until the mid 1970s, when the influx of multi-family homes and shopping centers spawned land use plans and zoning laws intended to protect Highlands’ natural assets. The town’s population today stands at 1,047 year-round residents with 15,000–20,000 summer guests and 222 businesses.
Since its creation in 1875, the demographic mixture of Highlands has been remarkably unique. Founded by hardy pioneers from all over the nation, sober industrious tradesmen from the North, Scotch-Irish laborers and crafts-men from the surrounding mountains and valleys, and wealthy aristocratic planters and professionals from the South, the town has served as a cultural center for well-known artists, musicians, actors, authors, photographers, scholars, and scientists who have thrived in its natural setting.
The result is a town too cosmopolitan to be provincial, too broadly based to be singular in attitude and perspective, too enamored of its natural surroundings to be totally indifferent to them, and just isolated enough and small enough to be anxious about the benefits and setbacks of growth and development.
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