The rise & fall of an affluent Appalachian community. Cultural & architectural social history of prominent families in high society during a fashionable half century of expansion. 1880-1930. Vanderbilts. Groves, Coxes, Raouls, Fitzgeralds, McLeans & many more. A story played out against a background of speculative development in a spectacular mountain setting.
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Born in New York City and a lifelong writer, David Coleman Bailey is a long time resident of Asheville, NC. As a boy coming to Asheville with his family, he was fascinated in the startling aftermath of this seemingly brand new city. Educated at the University of North Carolina & Haverford College, he received degrees in journalism and languages and is retired from a long investment career with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Social & political history is a hobby. The father of Derrick, Douglas, Thomas, and Caroline Elizabeth, he is married to the former Cathey Massie, owner of Biltmore Forest Realty in Asheville. Family forebears came to American shores during the 17th & 18th centuries. Named for Col. David Coleman, whose regiment reached the climax at Chickamauga, greatest battle in the history of Anglo-Saxon arms. Mr. Bailey has long been involved in operations of the Penland Company, an hereditary family land management business. He is a founder of the Asheville Arts Council and former chairman of Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, dedicated to preservation of the Highlands of Roan and other mountain conservation projects.
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The name Asheville evokes poignant images of a mountain mosaic in which sophisticated social fabric of an urban little enclave rested lightly upon bedrock of native conviction and personality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Battery Park, North Carolina, Flat Rock, Hot Springs, New Orleans, Sulphur Springs, South Carolina, French Broad, United States, Charlotte Street, Albemarle Park, George Vanderbilt, Kenilworth Inn, Palm Beach, Johnson City, Blue Ridge, Spruce Pine, Warm Springs, South Main, Biltmore Forest, Land of the Sky, Queen Anne, Southern Railway, Colonel Coxe New!
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The name Asheville evokes poignant images of a mountain mosaic in which sophisticated social fabric of an urban little enclave rested lightly upon bedrock of native conviction and personality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electric car line, street railway system, private railway car Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Battery Park, North Carolina, Flat Rock, Hot Springs, New Orleans, Sulphur Springs, South Carolina, French Broad, United States, Charlotte Street, Albemarle Park, George Vanderbilt, Kenilworth Inn, Palm Beach, Johnson City, Blue Ridge, Spruce Pine, Warm Springs, South Main, Biltmore Forest, Land of the Sky, Queen Anne, Southern Railway, Colonel Coxe New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe in Front Matter, and page 119
- Miss Muriel and Other Stories by Ann Petry on page 229
- Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Lester Pearson on page 32
- The German Invasion of Western North Carolina: A Pictorial History by Jacqueline Burgin Painter on page 192
- The Hills Beyond (Voices of the South) by Thomas Wolfe on page 119
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