RENEWAL stories cover the mid 1900s-early 2000s, including the redevelopment of Lake Toxaway to near-present day.

The Greystone Inn
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Re-Imagining The Greystone Inn

The history of The Greystone Inn comes full circle with a re-imagining by its current owners/operators, Geoff and Shannon Ellis.
Tim and Boo Boo Lovelace
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The Greystone Inn: The Lovelace Years

The Greystone Inn came about after significant financial (and personal) investment by Tim and Boo Boo Lovelace, in a partnership with the Lake Toxaway Company.
Greystone Inn 2001
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The Birth Of The Greystone Inn

The Greystone era began when Tim and Harriet Lovelace purchased and renovated the Moltz Mansion on Lake Toxaway in 1984.
Moltz Mansion
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The Evolution of The Moltz Mansion

The Moltz Mansion was sold to the Toxaway Company in 1963 and refurbished as the original Lake Toxaway Country Club.
Toxaway Falls Stand
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The Toxaway Falls Stand

Long-time local owners Jack Owen and his wife Marjorie pose in front of the Toxaway Falls Stand in a photo taken around 2000.
The Return of Lake Toxaway
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The Return of Lake Toxaway: A Video Documentary

In April 2012, the Transylvania Times published a feature on a video documentary project about Lake Toxaway history undertaken by John Nichols III of Charlotte and Lake Toxaway.
Boyd and Heinitsh
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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.
Heavy Equipment
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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.