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| " In 1878 Gen. J. H. Wilder of Knoxville
built a hotel on the top of the Roan mountain and opened it for guests,
having previously constructed a wagon road from Roan Mountain Station on
what is now the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad.
Later he built a much larger hotel, which met a public want admirably,
as it afforded sufferers from hay-fever immediate relief. It is built
across the State line between Tennessee and North Carolina, and guests
frequently sleep with one part of their bodies in one state and the rest
in the other. It was very popular till a few years ago, when it was
closed, but will soon be reopened." (1914, Arthur, p. 503.)
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| "Roan mountain, cloudland and empire of the sky, the highest of resorts, loftiest of hotels, most picturesque of summits, can be readily reached from Linville, or from Johnson City, E.T. & V.R.R., via Cranberry; 6342 feet above sea level. Commanding views, as indescribable as they are numerous, attract and keep the beholder ; the top of this most beautiful mountain is seven miles long, a natural prairie, interspersed with groves, dotted with flowers and shrubbery ; it no longer serves merely as a pasture for the flocks and herds of the farmers below, a nobler destiny has been found for it, and travelers swarm over its broad expanse. It does not boast of hunting or fishing, such sports are not to be looked for above the clouds, but scenery, the world spread out below, wholesome wine-like air, pure water, zest for food amply provide, comfortable lodging, it challenges the best of our hill country resorts." [North Carolina and Its Resources. State Board of Agriculture. Raleigh: Winston. M.I. & J.C. Stewart, Public Printers and Binders, 1896. p. 292-293] | |
| Advertisements for : "Cloudland Hotel, Top of Roan Mountain, 6391 feet above the sea. A most extended prospect of 50,000 square miles in seven States! ... L.B. Searle, Proprietor, Cloudland, Mitchell County" In Illustrated Guide Book of North Carolina Mountains | |
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the Saddle : toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/
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| Advertisement for it exists within the Illustrated Guide Book of North Carolina Mountains: http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/booklets/travel%20guide/Travel%20Guide%20web%20page.htm | |
