Hickory Nut Gorge is cloaked in cove hardwood forest, while Carolina hemlock and chestnut oak forest are found on the cliff tops and ridgeline. “The rugged slopes around Bat Cave contain an equally important array of habitats and creatures. That some of the world’s most endangered and rare flowers grow right here in the Bat Cave Preserve. (Please see the article I wrote on this town on the Site Menu above) Please send us any history you may know of this mysterious town. That the town under the lake was named Buffalo? 7 or 8 families lived there with a school and a grist mill, and they raised most of their food. It was named this because of it’s isolation from the rest of the region. That there was a Lost Colony on Chimney Rock!Īccording to the book “Rutherford County 1979: A People’s Bicentennial,” a fabled “Lost Colony” used to live on top of Chimney Rock Mountain. That the Gorge and the Asheville area was called “America’s New Age Mecca” by CBS News and Rolling Stone Magazine? That our lake’s picture was featured in an article August 1941 titled Tarheelia on Parade and North Carolina Colorcade “According to the book “Rutherford County 1979: A People’s Bicentennial,” a fabled “Lost Colony” used to live on top of Chimney Rock Mountain. This was found in a little booklet dated 1916 titled “A Round Robin, Eight Years in the Mission Field in the Mountain District” which LuVerne Haydock recently shared with the group. That on top of Chimney Rock there was a lost Colony!

(The bearded man in the photo is James Mills Flack, owner of Mountain View Inn from 1898-1940) That the Bat Caves are one of largest if not THE LARGEST fissure Caves in the United States? Reporters have not improved over the years” by Wallace DuPre’ The sheriff caught a drunken bunch heading up the road, one with cotton, the other with coal oil or some inflammable, bent on starting a volcano on the mountaintop!!!!! Not wanting to give up their life of riotous living, gambling, and whatever else. After many days of no visible disaster, the papers started sending notices for the reporters to return home if nothing was forthcoming by a certain date. Some slept in their family cemetery plots, others in their churches. The locals were very scared and many expected the end of the world. He reported back in a letter to his family that the gorge was full of reporters from the Northeast, sent by their papers to report the expected earthquake or whatever. “My great-grandfather, Warren DuPre’, was professor of Natural Sciences at Wofford College and was sent by his national science literary group to determine the rumblings at Hickory Nut Gorge.

That Rumblingbald Mountain rumbled and prompted religious frenzy and a revival-like atmosphere!īe sure to read the below link and also this fantastic account that I recently received on how even back then the media lied! Naturally, as in everything in history this is a work in progress! Please send me any corrections or additions to me at Meade I have added some interesting information that I have researched or heard told! The Hickory Nut Gorge is truly a “Magical Place” filled with Indian tales, mountain characters, ghost towns and stories that are thrilling though often so unknown! In my thought process, when we remember a person, an event, a story or when we simply say a prayer over a name or a person, we truly bring them back to life and honor their lives and service to us all!īelow is my simple attempt to bring back some of the great stories and people of the area that I love.

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