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BLOWING ROCK
"The vicinity of Blowing Rock is a summer resort. It is a lofty plateau of the Blue Ridge, covered with dense forests, level farms, and crossed by smooth highways. Good country accommodations are offered here for the tourist. From the edge of the mountain wall, which overhangs Caldwell county, two points -- Blowing Rock an Fairview -- afford admirable stands, for overlooking the piedmont country. The views are similar in character. From Fairview the valley of the John's river, embosomed in green mountains, lies in the low foreground; while rolling back, spread ranges, picturesque in outline and purple in coloring. In the morning or evening, when the sunlight is thrown aslant across them, bathing the fronting slopes in fire, and leaving, under opposite brows, gloomy shadows, so long drawn out that many of the valleys are as dark as they are silent, the scene is such that one can never tire of viewing it, or ever lose the impressions that even one sight of it will awaken." (1883, Zeigler, p.264)