Demographic Characteristics Of Asheville

Henry Flagler was an American capitalist, entrepreneur and industrialist born in Hopewell, New York who founded Standard Oil, an oil refining industry, and bridged and extended his Florida East Coast Railway to Miami in order to make his hotel ventures more accessible. This extension became apparent when Flagler visited St. Augustine, Florida with his second wife viewing it as an endearing location, yet deficient in sufficient resorts and transportation systems. He invested and purchased the Jacksonville, Halifax and St. Augustine railroad which led to the establishment of the Florida East Coast Railway. Flagler saw probable prospect in Florida to be a major tourist attraction. As Flagler’s luxury hotels were expanding and reaching all parts of Florida, the citizens of Florida wanted to acclaim Flagler for building channels, streets, introducing power and water structures/systems and creating a name for Florida. They wished to name the town “Flagler” in honor of him; however he respectfully declined insisting that the town be named Miami- an Indian name originating from the river that the city was established around. Here Flagler opens the Hotel Royal Palm, one of his many hotels stretching over his more than 2 million acres of land owned in Florida. During the next few years of his life, Flagler dedicated himself in emerging and evolving Florida. He conceived the modern Florida that we know of today with most of his infrastructures

Since it is one of the largest privately owned house in the U.S., it attracts a lot of tourists. About one million tourist visit this house each year. Before a railroad was built near the city in 1880, Asheville was relatively quiet . After the railroad was built, tourists began visiting the city. Of these tourist was George Washington Vanderbilt. He was visiting the city with his mother to find aid for her chronic malaria. At that time, Asheville was known to have a “healing environment” due to its altitude and climate.

Rustic mountain homes and cabins are top of the list for both the second-home buyer and those who are retiring to the area. It is an incredibly popular place for the locals to remain, the second-home buyers to come seasonally, a place where the retirees move permanently and for tourists to visit. All make a huge contribution to our area and to the local economy.

Brindlee Mountain Middle School is a small rural school in Marshall County Alabama located within eight miles of Guntersville, Alabama and Arab, Alabama. BMMS was constructed sixteen years ago to consolidate Grassy and Union Grove junior high schools. This consolidation led to the reorganization of Grassy and Union Grove into elementary schools serving grades kindergarten through fourth grade. In 2004 Brindlee Mountain High School was created, followed by another reorganization of Grassy and Union Grove elementary schools into a primary school serving grades kindergarten through second grade and an elementary school serving grades three through five. In 2011, Union Grove and Grassy schools underwent another transformation when they were renamed Brindlee Mountain Primary School and Brindlee Mountain Elementary School respectively. These changes successfully created the Brindlee Mountain feeder pattern.

Monticello is considered one of the greatest architectural feats for the time in which it was built. Thomas Jefferson built a home that was years beyond its time. He included sunlights to let in the sun for extra lighting. Jefferson also was one of the first people to go away from the block style building with a hall down the middle and rooms off to the left and right. He created a central room with a circular path going around the rooms. This is one of the beginnings of the

The Ashely Slater House was build in 1912 and was finish in 1914 in Douglas, Georgia. John had picked out the wood and bricks for his home himself . The original owner was John Marshall Ashely. Mr. Ashely build the house for his wife Mrs. Christian Ada as wedding present in 1908. But now a days the Ashely Slater home is use for as a museum, and as the Douglas Visitor Information Center for city of Douglas. I did my essay on the Ashley Slater house because how important the owner of the house were to south Georgia, It located here on Gaskin Avenue which is known for having ghosts, also the amount of people who died in the house.

Once the tobacco was processed, the tobacco was easily transported to other areas by the railroad, which brought in more revenue for the town. Keysville had a lot going for such a small town until after the war.

The discovery of “Fools Gold” is what led to the enriched and powerful development of the mining company. A Baltimore native John Detrick managed to hike along the Quantico Creek and discovered something shiny in the water which just so happened to be pyrite, also known as Iron Sulfide. With this discovery there came three shafts that lived pyrite. The Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine was the only pyrite mine in the area and really helped out the locals by boosting the economy and providing jobs for farmers who worked as laborers for the mine and then went home to tend to their farm after working. The company was such a big success that by 1917, Virginia produced more pyrite than any other state and continued to provide profitable income to families and businesses located in the area. This would be Batestown and Hickory Ridge at the time in history. With a booming economy, the mining company was able to rake in even more of a profit when World War I struck due to the fact that it was able to produce gunpowder during the mid-nineteenth century. The Cabin Branch Mining Company not only produced an income for the locals by pyrite carrying the main ingredient sulfur that was necessary to produce products like gunpowder, bleach, textiles, soap, medicine, etc. but it also contributed to the remarkable advantages the park would make with its preservation of the mine

Jim Williams, the owner of a Savannah antiques store, was a self-made millionaire known for both his loving restorations of local houses and his grand parties. Williams never really felt the embrace of Savannah’s wealthy constituency. Although his bank account certainly qualified him for entry into their circle, he was nouveau riche, and hence, an outsider. Old money and aristocracy hold a lot of weight in the South. Williams answered their snobbery with “It’s the riche that counts” (Berendt, p.7). Williams lived in a mansion known as Mercer House, it was built in 1861 and stands at the west end of Monterey Square. Mercer House is the center stage for much of the book. It is also where his well-known Christmas parties were held and its study was the site of the shooting of Danny Hansford. While we’re on the subject, Danny Hansford was a part-time employee and houseguest of Williams. Hansford was a young man that had quite a reputation in Savannah for his violent temper and his sexual proclivity to service both men and women. Not to mention his abusive use of drugs and alcohol, which helps explain why he had been in and out of jail so many times.

Vanderbilt was the first robber baron during the late 1800s era and the first tycoon to build NYC railroads in dishonest business tactics. He made the Vanderbilt family rich when he started out running steamships, but later ran railroad companies. Running a railroad company is what gave him a name and made him one of the richest men of modern history. The railroads served a huge purpose in urbanization as it connected the east to the west and provided access to new markets for local goods. Vanderbilt helped to encourage westward expansion by investing in

Like many communities in Tennessee, Briceville's founding was tied to coal mining. Originally known as Slatestone Hollow, early miners used wagons to haul coal to Knoxville until the railroad connected Knoxville and Coal Creek. In 1888, Calvin Brice, who was then the president of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad and would later serve a single term in the U.S. Senate, requested the construction of a spur connecting Slatestone Hollow with Coal Creek. Upon completion of the spur, the community was renamed in Brice's honor. Although the population of Briceville has risen and fallen since the community's founding, residents have never been short of pests. Two common pests found in the area are bed bugs and fleas.

White Furniture Company was the “oldest maker of fine furniture.” This phrase was reiterated over and over again by longtime Mebane, North Carolina residents. This company employed 1 out of 20 Mebane residents and was a driving economic force in the town. White 's “regulated many of the rhythms of the town-opening and closing time, lunchtime, weekend and holidays.”

In Jeannette Walls’s memoir, she describes how her father, Rex, wants to build a glass castle for him and his family to live in. In the book, she writes, “...All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert” (Walls 25). Rex wanted to make this happen for his family but unfortunately, his plans weren’t so realistic. So if I could build a glass castle the location of my glass castle would be in Atlanta, GA. I chose this location because I have family down there and I always travel down south every year. I chose to have 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a kitchen, an attic, a living room, a dining room, patio, and a basement. I chose to have these things because if I’m going to have a dream

Fifty eight years ago Lowe’s began as North Wilkesboro Hardware Company, a neighborhood hardware store fittingly named after the small town it was located in. Owned by partners H. Carl Buchan and James Lowe, this concept was more than a living, it

Finding an apartment for rent in one of the most historical states in the world is intriguing. Virginia, one of the four commonwealth states in the United States, is named after the Virgin Queen, Queen Elizabeth I. Virginia is the home of eight U.S. presidents: Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, George Washington, William Harrison, James Madison, Zachary Taylor and John Tyler. The capital of Virginia is located in Richmond, and the state’s nickname is “Old Dominion.” Virginia is known for its second oldest historical college in the United State, founded in 1693, The College of William and Mary, located in Williamsburg.