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The Return of Lake Toxaway: Boyd and Heinitsh

Lake Toxaway Company partners Donny Boyd and Reg Heinitsh Sr. could not have been more different, and that may have accounted for their friendship and balanced working relationship.
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The Return of Lake Toxaway: Refilling the Lake and Building Roads

With the dam construction complete, Lake Toxaway Company employees, many of them locals, got to work on the lakebed clearing trees in advance of the refilling water and/or around the lake on road construction projects.
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The Return of Lake Toxaway: Clearing the Lakebed and Rebuilding the Dam

Rebuilding Lake Toxaway presented many challenges - initially many of the same ones that the Toxaway Company faced at the turn of the century.
Donny Boyd and Reg Heinitsh Sr.
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The Revival of Lake Toxaway

Darnell "Donny" Boyd and Reginald Heinitsh Sr. are generally considered the catalysts for the revival of present-day Lake Toxaway. Here's how they got started.
Caretaker Tolvin Miller
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The Lost Years Of Lake Toxaway

After the Lake Toxaway dam burst in the flood of 1916, the property sat abandoned for many years, with only caretaker Tolvin Miller and his family nearby.
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The Learning Center at PARI: Science In Our Backyard

The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) has a fascinating history - and it's right in our own Historic Toxaway backyard!
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The Lake Toxaway Dam Burst

The torrential rains of the summer of 1916 proved to be too much for the Lake Toxaway dam. When it failed, it sent 5B gallons of water over the falls toward the South Carolina border.
Turn of the century wedding
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Financial Foibles in the Sapphire Country

For a number of financial reasons, the resorts in the Sapphire Country changed management leases frequently in the years following the opening of the Toxaway Inn.
Lake Toxaway Dam to Dam Swim
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A Labor Day Tradition: The Lake Toxaway Dam to Dam Swim

A random idea tossed among friends was the humble beginning of the Lake Toxaway Dam to Dam Swim, a Labor Day tradition since 1994.
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Early Success At The Toxaway Inn

With early success, the Toxaway Company investments in the Sapphire Country resorts seemed well-founded. The region—and specifically the Toxaway Inn— was “the” place to see and be seen!