cawilson82
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Cool I have never heard one seems pretty interesting to see an hear it work.
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jasonpredhunter
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Originally Posted By: 6mm06
To throw in a bit of history about Burke's Garden, it'a an amazing place, extremely beautiful,
a deep valley surrounded by mountains all around in a bowl-like shape. I can just imagine how
wild it was many years ago.
One interesting note about the place, George Vanderbilt in the late 1800's, sent out scouts
to cover America and find a perfect place to live and where he would build his mansion.
Before settling in Asheville, NC, (Biltmore House) Vanderbilt's scouts chose Burke's Garden
as one potential place. To my undertanding, they could not secure the land there, so settled in Asheville.
Here's an aerial view of Burkes Garden to give you an idea of what a geographical wonder it is, sitting right on top of the Appalachain mountains. The whole valley looks like you plucked a piece of Iowa or Illinois flat farm land and stuck it right on top of a mountain. Pretty cool place, I feel lucky to have grown up so close to it and hung out there a lot. Looking at the picture, I grew up in the first green valley on the left-hand side of the pic. The right side of the pic is Tazewell.
To throw in a bit of history about Burke's Garden, it'a an amazing place, extremely beautiful,
a deep valley surrounded by mountains all around in a bowl-like shape. I can just imagine how
wild it was many years ago.
One interesting note about the place, George Vanderbilt in the late 1800's, sent out scouts
to cover America and find a perfect place to live and where he would build his mansion.
Before settling in Asheville, NC, (Biltmore House) Vanderbilt's scouts chose Burke's Garden
as one potential place. To my undertanding, they could not secure the land there, so settled in Asheville.
Here's an aerial view of Burkes Garden to give you an idea of what a geographical wonder it is, sitting right on top of the Appalachain mountains. The whole valley looks like you plucked a piece of Iowa or Illinois flat farm land and stuck it right on top of a mountain. Pretty cool place, I feel lucky to have grown up so close to it and hung out there a lot. Looking at the picture, I grew up in the first green valley on the left-hand side of the pic. The right side of the pic is Tazewell.
