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On October 17, 1863, Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside reported from Knoxville, Tennessee, that "a regiment of North Carolina troops we are now organizing here yesterday captured Warm Springs, N.C., and now hold Paint Rock Gap." This regiment, the 2n…
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Early landmark. Site of Blockhouse to protect settlersfrom Indians, 1793. Figures on rock resemble paintings. Is 5 ½ miles northwest.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFAU_balladry_Hot-Springs-NC.html
English folklorist Cecil Sharp in 1916 collected ballads in the "Laurel Country." Jane Gentry , who supplied many of the songs, lived here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFAT_dorland-bell-institute_Hot-Springs-NC.html
Founded as Dorland Institute in 1887 by Dr. and Mrs. Luke Dorland. Taken over by Presbyterian Church U.S.A. in 1893. Became Dorland-Bell Institute in 1918 when consolidated with Bell Institute from Jewell Hill. Moved to Asheville in 1942 as part o…
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Health resort since 1800. Name changed from Warm Springs, 1886. Internment camp for Germans in World War 1 was here.
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In loving memory ofRobert E. Leeand to mark the route of theDixie Highway"The shaft memorial and highway straightattest his worth — he cometh to his own."              &nb…
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