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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V21_lees-mcrae-college-historical_Banner-Elk-NC.html
Presbyterian. Founded in 1900 by Edgar Tufts. Named for teacher Elizabeth McRae & benefactor Mrs. S. P. Lees. Senior college since 1988.
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Author of The Balsam Groves of the Grandfather Mountain, 1892; educator and humorist. Grave one block south.
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In 1860 Banner Elk was a small community in the mountains of Watauga County (present-day Avery County). Then called Banner Elk, it was named for the local Banner family and the Elk River. During the last years of the Civil War, an organized system…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GW3_crossnore-school_Newland-NC.html
Founded by Mary Martin Sloop, physician, 1913, to serve region's youth. Weaving Room, est. 1920, boosted revival of handicrafts. Campus ½ mi. W.
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Sarah Malinda Blalock and her husband, William McKesson "Keith" Blalock, lived in Coffey Gap on the Watauga and Caldwell County line in 1860. Keith Blalock was an avowed Unionist, but with the passage of the first Confederate conscriptio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GVQ_cranberry-iron-mine_Elk-Park-NC.html
During the Civil War, natural resources such as salt, lead, and iron were highly prized commodities in the Confederacy. The government relied especially on small rural ironworks to manufacture cannons, swords, and firearms. Ruben White first mined…
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Along a route nearby the "Over-Mountain Men" marched to victory at King's Mountain, 1780.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU89_cranberry-mines_Newland-NC.html
Iron ore deposits near here were mined from ca. 1826 until 1930. Supplied iron to the Confederacy.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDF3_andre-michaux_Linville-NC.html
French botanist, pioneerin studying flora ofwestern North Carolina,visited GrandfatherMountain, August, 1794.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDF2_asa-gray_Linville-NC.html
American botanist and Harvard professor. InJuly,1841, investigatedflora of this region.He visited GrandfatherMountain.