North Carolina

Southern 4501

Smoke shoots skyward as Southern Railway's famous Mike 4501 rounds the bend at Hot Springs, N.C. with the National Railway Historical Society's Convention Special, August 1975.

Mountainside Theatre

Cherokee, North Carolina

Home of "Unto These Hills" the colorful, authentic drama of the Cherokee Indian which plays nightly except Monday each year from the last Saturday in June through Labor Day.  Carved out of a mountainside in the shadow of the Great Smokies, the theatre seats 2900 persons in comfortable chair-back seats.

Shawver Lake, Happy Acres, North Carolina, constructed in 1955, just off U.S. Highway 276, nine miles S.E. of Brevard, N.C.  Elevation varies from 2900 Ft. up.  Roads graded, well watered and wooded.  REA Power.  Part of Cedar Mountain Community.