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  • Collection: Forestry in Western North Carolina

A view of the servant wing of the Wicker Sharp House in Pink Beds, used as a summer home by Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck. The wooden building sits outside a larger stone structure, presumably the Wicker Sharp House. A wooden fence leads from the…

Two Biltmore Forest School students stand on the porch to the dormitory called "Gnat Hollow." Donor note: "In my day [1906] we dubbed this cabin 'Gnat Hollow.' It was occupied then by Clarence Gernert, Paul Gray, and Verne Rhodes."

A front exterior view of Buck Spring Lodge, a hunting lodge built by George Vanderbilt in 1896. The image was taken from the bottom of a hill, and the lodge seems to be towering over a field of wild flowers. The lodge was demolished by the Department…

An image of Chubb Gap Trail, the first trail leading into the Pink Beds, taken in 1908 by Dr. Carl Schenck. Mrs. Adele Schenck is seen standing on the trail in the background.

Two men work on a logging road in Pisgah National Forest.

A section of Under Wicker Trail in Pisgah National Forest.

A view of Under Loop on Wicker Trail. The trail leads from Buck Spring Lodge to Morgan's Pasture.

A view of a trail leading from Little Pisgah to Buck Spring Lodge.

A secondary mountain road used for logging in Pisgah National Forest. The road was made by the Biltmore Forest Department.

A view of Pisgah National Forest. The edge of a logging road is visible in the lower right.
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