by Dale Wayne Slusser Asheville, North Carolina, founded in the 1790’s in the mountains of Western North Carolina, remained remote and rather inaccessible well into the latter half of the nineteenth-century. And although promoted as a “health resort”, beginning in...
by Dale Wayne Slusser And smiling fields of golden corn, The mountains and the vales adorn, And fruits and beauteous flowers grow, Upon the banks of Swannano! –W.[1] The site of the Cloisters Condominiums along the north bank of the Swannanoa River, and parts...
by Dale Wayne Slusser “Governor -elect Locke Craig within the next few weeks, will begin the erection of a modern country home on his property on the Swannanoa River.” -Asheville Citizen-Times, January 9, 1913. In 1949, North Carolina erected a historical marker...
by Dale Wayne Slusser Gone forever from thy borders, But immortal in thy name, Are the Red men of the Forest! Be thou Keeper of their fame! Paler races dwell beside thee, Celt & Saxon till thy lands… – poem, “Swannanoa: Nymph of Beauty” All the...
by Dale Wayne Slusser It all started with a cottage by the river. One day in 2013, I was driving on the road that runs along the north side of the Swannanoa River, near the historic Biltmore Village, when I noticed an abandoned shingle-styled cottage, sitting at the...
