The Cradle of Forestry was the site of the Biltmore Forest School, the first forestry school in America. The Center includes exhibits, hiking trails, special events, a movie, and a gift shop.
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Archives for Historic Sites
NC Bartram Trail
The North Carolina Bartram Trail commemorates the 1775 visit of Philadelphia naturalist William Bartram and parallels Bartram’s actual route into Cherokee country.
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Judaculla Rock
One of the Cherokee's most important ancestral places, Judaculla Rock is carved with approximately 1,548 designs, more than any other known petroglyph boulder in the eastern U.S.
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Historic Johnson Farm
Once a thriving tobacco farm, later a summer boarding house, the Historic Johnson Farm now offers school children and visitors an authentic farm experience.
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Howard Gap Road
A former Native American trail, Howard Gap Road was used by settlers as part of a Drover's Road that ran for 300 miles from Charleston, SC to the Continental Divide.
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Bethel Rural Community
The Bethel Community is surrounded by natural beauty, with Black Balsam Knob, Cold Mountain, and Mount Pisgah providing striking contrast to farmlands and valleys below.
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Cheoah
About 500 Cherokee lived in the Cheoah Valley before the United States Army forcibly deported Cherokees to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears in 1838.
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Clay County Heritage
The Hiawassee River Valley was once home to hundreds of Cherokee, a history that comes to life at the Cherokee County Historical & Art Museum and five other interpretive sites.
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John C. Campbell Folk School
Visit this historic folk school founded in 1925 and immerse yourself in classes in craft and art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, and writing.
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Konehete
The rich, fertile soil and protection from the weather of the “Long Valley” provided ideal conditions for agricultural cultivation. Immigrants changed the name to Valleytown.
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