Tag: Asheville
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Backroads Across America: Asheville Leaves Us With Questions
Eclectic, mild climate, college town, surrounded by the spectacular Blue Ridge Mountains. City traffic hassles, parking challenges, a place rough around the edges. Both descriptions fit Asheville, North Carolina. A city of 87,000, there are 425,000 in the metropolitan area. It was raining when we set out this morning, so we jumped on the…
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Backroads Across America: USA’s Biggest Home
It is the Gilded Age and you have become one of the world’s richest people by means of the shipping and railroad industries. What do you do with your riches? If you are George Vanderbilt, you spend 1889-1895 building America’s biggest house near Asheville, North Carolina. The Biltmore Estate, by the numbers: 255 rooms, 2.4…
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