High grade magnetite iron ore was found at the base of Roan Mountain near Cranberry, NC after the War of 1812. A "bloomery", or iron smelter, was built at Cranberry in 1820 to process the ore and supply iron to the Confederacy during the Civil War. . . . — — Map (db m184266) HM
In 1860 Banner Elk was a small community in the mountains of Watauga County (present-day Avery County). Then called Banner’s Elk, it was named for the local Banner family and the Elk River. During the last years of the Civil War, an organized system . . . — — Map (db m77533) HM
Sarah Malinda Blalock and her husband, William McKesson “Keith” Blalock, lived in Coffey’s Gap on the Watauga and Caldwell County line in 1860. Keith Blalock was an avowed Unionist, but with the passage of the first Confederate . . . — — Map (db m77492) HM
Nowhere is The Crossnore School's mission to provide hope and healing in a
homelike residential education setting for children from families in crisis more
lovingly portrayed than through Ben Long's rendering of Mark 10:14, “Suffer the . . . — — Map (db m262974) HM
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