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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BH6_restoring-a-forest_Balsam-Grove-NC.html
Commercial logging and devastating wildfires scarred the forests of America in the early decades of the 1900s. To repair the damage, the United States Forest Service began the "Penny Pine" program in the 1930s, encouraging people to donate a penny…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BB4_cradle-of-forestry_Canton-NC.html
Nestled in the valley below is the Cradle of Forestry in America, the birthplace of science-based forest management and a living legacy made possible by George and Edith Vanderbilt of the nearby Biltmore Estate. Some 87,000 acres of the Vanderbilt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FF9_allison-deaver-house_Pisgah-Forest-NC.html
This was the home of William Deaver and his wife, Margaret Patton Deaver. It was the scene of a tragic shooting in February 1865, a consequence of the tumult that the Civil War created among North Carolinians.
When the war began, a few Transylvan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CBH_tanneries_Rosman-NC.html
Lost industry in western N.C. Bark used to process animal hides to make leather goods. Joseph Silversteen operated one here from 1901 to 1958.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C81_north-carolina-confederate-veterans-memorial-forest_Balsam-Grove-NC.html
The United Daughters of the Confederacy in cooperation with the United States Forest Service planted this 125 acre forest as a living memorial to the 125,000 soldiers North Carolina provided the Confederacy. The 125,000 Red Spruce tree forest was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2Y_looking-glass-rock_Canton-NC.html
Like a gigantic mirror, Looking Glass Rock reflects a dazzle of sunlight when water collects on its granite face. This display is especially spectacular in winter when the water turns to ice.
Looking Glass Rock is a pluton formed by underground…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2R_devils-courthouse_Balsam-Grove-NC.html
The bare rock profile named Devil's Courthouse is sinister in appearance and legend. Its "devilish" look has contributed to the many folk tales surrounding this mountain.
Within the mountain is a cave where, legend claims, the devil holds court…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM122W_estatoe-path_Rosman-NC.html
Trading route between mountain settlements of the Cherokee and their town Estatoe, in what is now South Carolina, passed nearby.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTP1_wash-place_Pisgah-Forest-NC.html
Students were responsible for doing their own laundry. Everyone,including Mrs. Gillespie and Mrs. Case, came here on washday. Clothes were boiled in a kettle over an open fire using "Octagon" soap from the commissary or homemade soap if you were t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTOZ_draw-road_Pisgah-Forest-NC.html
In the days before Vanderbilt bought this land, families drove the cattle, pigs, geese and turkeys they raised in these mountains along this road to the market in Greenville and Charleston, SC. The main link with the outside world, this road came …