Lake Toxaway with the Toxaway Inn to the right. The Lake was created by daming the Toxaway River in 1901 (60' high, 500' long) and created approximately 15 miles of shoreline.
Post Office at Grimshawe’s. The post office was built by Thomas Grimshawe and gained its reputation as the smallest post office in the nation. Stamp collectors and enthusiasts from around the world wrote there to get letters postmarked with the…
“Ravenel’s - Highlands, N.C.”; landscape of fields, house and mountains. S. Prioleau Ravenel of Charleston, South Carolina, built the first two-story house in the Highlands.
“Sanitarium, Highlands, N. C.” Several of the world's most prominent tuberculosis specialists in the 1870's embraced the high-altitude air and climate of western North Carolina as a contributing factor in maintaining the diesease.
View of the inn and bridge over the water. The Toxaway Inn hired Henry Scadin as a promotional photographer to testifiy to the hotel's awesome structure.
“Coopers Hill - and - Lower Brevard. In 1907, the 'Sylvan Valley News' proclaimed Brevard as 'one of the Country's most beautiful towns. Brevard's historic architecture in the area dates from the 1850's to the 1930's.