Rock House Creek Lodge

Rock House Creek Lodge (HMTEK)

Location: Pisgah Forest, NC 28768 Transylvania County
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Country: United States of America
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N 35° 21.144', W 82° 46.873'

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A Black Forest Lodge

To the "mountaineers", or people who lived around the Pisgah Forest, these lands were theirs to log, pasture, hunt and moonshine as they had for years. In an effort to convince them otherwise, Schenck installed rangers in lodges at fourteen strategic locations throughout the forest and paid them $50 a month to protect the forest from "thievery".

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Dr. Schenck had these distinctive lodges, often referred to as Black Forest Lodges, built imitating the architecture used in the Black Forest of Germany. Local men, Judson Meece, Ulysses Reeves, Webb Orr, and John Watts, built the lodges with chestnut beams and tulip poplar siding. Similar post and beam construction can be seen at the Single Men's Building in Old Salem, NC.
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Date Added Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014 at 2:52pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 338152 N 3913579
Decimal Degrees35.35240000, -82.78121667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 35° 21.144', W 82° 46.873'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds35° 21' 8.64" N, 82° 46' 52.38" W
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Area Code(s)828
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 11250 Pisgah Hwy, Pisgah Forest NC 28768, US
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