Cashiers

CASHIERS

Cashier's Valley is a mountain plateau of the Blue Ridge, 3400 feet in altitude, from four to five miles long and a mile and a half wide. Attracted by its climate, freedom from dampness, its utter isolation from the populated haunts of man, the rugged character of its scenery, and deer and bear infested wildwoods, years since wealthy planters of South Carolina drifted in here with each recurring summer. Now, a few homes of these people are scattered along the highland roads. One residence, the pleasant summer home of Colonel Hampton, the earliest settler from South Carolina, is situated as it appears from the road, in the gap between Chimney Top and Brown mountain, through which, 20 miles away, can be seen a range of purple mountains. A grove of pines surrounds the house. Governor Hampton formerly spent the summers here, engaged among other pastimes, in fishing for trout along the head streams of the Chatoga, which have been stocked with this fish by the Hampton family. (1883, Zeigler, p.113)