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  • Collection: Forestry in Western North Carolina

Three Biltmore Forest School students sit on the steps to the entrance of Gnat Hollow, a student dormitory in the Pink Beds. Verne Rhoades is on the right.

This image shows a cabin in the Pink Beds, used as student quarters for the Biltmore Forest School. In 1906, it was used as a summer home for Biltmore Forest School students Waterbury and Emigh.

A Biltmore Forest School student, identified as Guy Gooding, leans back in a chair on the porch of the dormitory known as "Big Hell Hole" and pries open a bottle of wine. A dog is lying down under the student's legs. Saddles, an ax, a trunk, and a…

Biltmore Forest School students stand with three horses and a dog on the porch of a dormitory named "Big Hell Hole" in Pink Beds. Donor note: "Hell Hole in the Pink Beds consisted of two cabins in which Gooding, Burkhart and Mylrea lived in the…

A Biltmore Forest School student identified as Burke is studying on the front porch of the dormitory named "Big Hell Hole" in Pink Beds.

An exterior view of Big Hell Hole and Little Hell Hole, two cabins used as dormitories by Biltmore Forest School students. The two cabins can be seen nestled between trees with mountains visible in the background.

View of chairs before a shelf and table in "Little Hell Hole" dormitory, which was the study room in Biltmore Forest School students Wilson's and Silverthorn's dormitory shack.

An interior view of the Biltmore Forest School student dormitory known as "Big Hell Hole." The study table visible in the image was used by students Gooding and Mylrea. The students slept on cots located behind the visible partition where rattlesnake…

Rattlesnake skins hang curing from the interior wall of the "Big Hell Hole" Biltmore Forest School dormitory. Donor note: "Gooding and Mylrea's bedroom was through this door. It had no windows, but we left the back screen door open facing Wilson's…

A schoolhouse used by the Biltmore Forest School in Pink Beds. The building also served as a school for the community's children and a church for the wider community. The Forest School's summer lectures were held here in 1905-1906. The man on the…
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