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Friday, June 12, 2015 / Published in Local History, Post Card Collection

WLOS TV Visits the North Carolina Room Again!

WLOS anchor Frank Fraboni was looking for answers to an ASK 13 question about what ever happened to the oversize coffee pots that used to be at the entrance to the Homeland Park Tourist cabins in East Asheville just past the WNC Nature Center. He landed on our HeardTell blog post we had written last November about tourists courts, so came to talk to North
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Monday, November 17, 2014 / Published in Local History, Post Card Collection

Tourists’ Camps

Who were the early tourist pioneers and where did they stay? Before there were tourists’ courts, there were automobile tourists’ camps. They were most typically, in this area, cabins or shacks. “Tourists’ Camps” found its own subject listing in the business section of the Asheville city directories in 1936, which listed three camps:”Babblin Brook” on the Weaverville
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