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A Motor Trip Veritably to Nature's Heart
in "The Land of the Sky"


A Motor Trip ..., [Flyer Cover]
D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, UNC at Asheville 28804
Title A Motor Trip Veritably to Nature's Heart
in "The Land of the Sky"
Identifier http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/booklets/motor_trip/motor_trip.htm
Creator Southern Railway System
Subject Keyword Travel and tourism ;  motoring ; automobile touring ; Asheville, NC ; city ; Western North Carolina scenery ;  Chimney Rock ; Blue Ridge Mountains ; Southern Railway System ; Bottomless Pools ; Hickory Nut Gap ; Bat Cave ; Rumbling Cave ; vacations ;
Subject LCSH Appalachian Region -- Description and travel
Historic sites -- Appalachian Region
Appalachian Mountains -- Guidebooks
Mountains -- North Carolina -- Pictorial works
Asheville (N.C.) -- Architecture
Asheville (N.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Guidebooks
Architecture -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- Guidebooks
Historic Buildings -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- Guidebooks
Date digital 2005-05-30
Publisher The Abertype Company, Brooklyn, New York
Contributor

Southern Railway System

Type Source type: Flyer, quartro-fold
Format [digital] image/jpeg/text ; [booklet] 23 pages : illustration, photographs, text
Source D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections , Books http://uncasheville.wncln.org/iii/encore/search/C__S(a | e | i | o | u | 1 | 0 | y) b%3Aars__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=ncash
Language English
Relation Travel and Tourism booklets - http://uncasheville.wncln.org/iii/encore/search/C__S(a | e | i | o | u | 1 | 0 | y) b%3Aars__Orightresult__U?lang=eng&suite=ncash
Coverage temporal 1920's
Rights Any display, publication or public use must credit D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Donor UNCA Special Collections
Description A Motor Trip Veritably to Nature's Heart in "The Land of the Sky" was prepared as a guide to Asheville and vicinity by the Southern Railway System. It is a flyer with text and images arranged in quarto fold.
Acquisition 2003-05-01
Citation  D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by Special Collections staff,  2003
Last update 2005-05-30
 
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Motor Road to Chimney Rock [photogrpah].
Chimney Rock, in Hickory Nut Gap, is justifiably a far-famed spot of unique scenic interest. Tryly indeed, in this, "Heart of the Blue Ridge", is there a blending of the sublime and the picturesque -- the exquisite  verdure of the Southern Appalachians. Towering precipices 2,000 feet high, rendered accessible by roads, bridges, trails and even stair-ways. Water-falls of greatest beauty. Broad River tumbling noisily hundreds of feet -- by the very side of matchless highways -- in its onward rush to the sea. The Bottomless Pools, -- those mysterious caverns that have been so baffling to all beholders. Weird and interesting caves, notably Bat Cave and Rumbling Cave. These and so many more, but feebly convey the charm and repletion of this wonderland.
Hickory Nut Gap [photograph]
View from "Inspiration Point" Appian Way [[photograph]
Location and Access [of Chimney Rock]
Chimney Rock is situated some eighteen miles north-east of Hendersonville, N.C., twenty-six miles east of Asheville, N.C., and eighteen miles west of Rutherfordton, N.C., in the very fastnesses of the Blue Ridge. The Charlotte-Asheville Highway (via Hendersonville) a superb motor road, is the avenue of access, either by private or public service cars. The latter will convey passengers direct to Chimney Rock from all the railway stations above. Write for particulars and rates. Western Union Telegraph service to all points. Daily Mail.

Inns and Hotels [List]
The following is a list of good sojourning places:
     Mountain View Inn
     Logan Place
     Freeman's Camp
     Chimney Rock Lodge
     Camp Chimrok for Boys
     2 Garages
     Esmeralda Inn
     Rockwood
     Bat Cave Inn
Bottomless Pools [photograph]
Vacation Land -- Veritably is the this caption true, -- yea, for a day or even for a summer, the lure of the spot is irresistible!
Among amusements and sports are motoring, mountain climbing, dancing, swimming, fishing, riding over miles of mountain trails, or -- simply idling away the vacation days -- pleasure alike for the strenuous, the retiring, and for the nature lover. More than pleasure, a vacation spent here will mean to all who take it renewal of bodily vigor and rejuvenation of spirit. Obey that impulse and come.
Chimney Rock Highway. -- This private road built at a great expense is perhaps the most beautiful and the most perfectly maintained scenic highway in the East, -- double track, safe, low grade -- No one should fail to take it, and too, "Bring your Kodak."

Entrance Bridge Chimney Rock Highway [photograph]

[Across bottom of two pages]:
Southern Railway System Agents everywhere will be glad to furnish you full information  as to fares, schedules, etc. Let them plan your trip. Agencies in all the principal cities of the U.S.

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