Toxaway Inn
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Opening Day at the Toxaway Inn

Finally — the grand Toxaway Inn opens in the beautiful Sapphire Country, and it's all that the guests of the Toxaway Company could hope for.
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The Building of Lake Toxaway and the Toxaway Inn

To great accolades, and despite obstacles, the enormous Toxaway Inn project was complete enough to open toward the late part of the 1903 summer season. 
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The Franklin Hotel: Gateway to the Sapphire Country

The Franklin Hotel was built in Brevard by the Toxaway Company as a gateway stop for their guests to the Sapphire Country, and in repayment to Brevardians for investment help to build a railway between the two.
The Lodge at Mount Toxaway
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The Lodge at Mount Toxaway: Then & Now

The Lodge at Mount Toxaway is no more - replaced by an unmanned fire lookout tower - but you can read about its resort heyday here.
Sapphire Lake
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The Sapphire Inn & Cottages: Then & Now

Sapphire Inn and Cottages were built in 1897 on Lake Sapphire by the Toxaway Company and enjoyed a decade of lively operation. Unfortunately a fire in the summer of 1906 destroyed the inn.
Revolutionary war soldiers claiming bounty lands
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Settling of Bounty Lands in Western North Carolina

How do you pay someone for a service rendered when you have no money? The leaders of the Continental Congress offered land grants or bounty lands to Revolutionary War soldiers as payment for their service.
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The Fairfield Inn: Then and Now

The Fairfield Inn was the first great resort built by the Toxaway Company. Its storied history began in 1896 and ended after a fire in 1986 forced its closure and eventual demolition.
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The Toxaway Company and the Great Resort Era

Just how did Western North Carolina become “the” resort venue in the late nineteenth century? It was largely due to the efforts of the Toxaway Company, a collection of industrialist entrepreneurs who built five great inns of the time.
1880s camera
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Life & Work of Early Area Photographers

We explore the life and work of three photographers who preserved turn-of-the-century Transylvania County life with their images: R.H. Scadin, E. H. Glover, and Joseph Stokely Wilde.
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The Logging Industry (1900-1920)

By the early twentieth century, western North Carolina’s economy was dominated by two industries: tourism and timber. Here we take a look at the turn of the century logging trade in western Northern Carolina.