{"id":7065,"date":"2010-08-17T20:18:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmdc.wcu.edu\/?p=39"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:56","slug":"little-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2010\/08\/17\/little-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ next_background_color=”#000000″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

The Grassy Mountain area of Mitchell and McDowell counties was long a traditional settlement of Scotch-Irish families. In the summer of 1909, Charlotte lawyer Heriot Clarkson discovered the Alpine-like setting and laid plans for a resort colony. Heriot\u2019s Switzerland Company purchased 1100 acres, arranged for railroad and toll road access, and began to build Swiss-style cottages. Construction of the Blue ridge Parkway after 1930 drew growing numbers of visitors. The Big Lynn Lodge was built on the site of a great Linden tree where, tradition has it, the Over Mountain Men rested on their way to victory in the Revolutionary War Battle of King\u2019s Mountain. Little Switzerland has endured as a retreat center and tourist attraction into the 21st century.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Multimedia:<\/h3>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” prev_background_color=”#000000″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Digital Heritage Audio Radio Moment” _builder_version=”3.0.51″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n

Digital Heritage Audio Moment<\/h3>\n

[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_audio _builder_version=”3.9″ image_url=”https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/787088_300-115×1151.jpg” background_color=”#07630c” border_style=”solid” artist_name=”WCU” album_name=”Digital Heritage Moments” title=”Little Switzerland” audio=”https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/LittleSwitz60Mx.mp3″ \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Grassy Mountain area of Mitchell and McDowell counties was long a traditional settlement of Scotch-Irish families. In the summer of 1909, Charlotte lawyer Heriot Clarkson discovered the Alpine-like setting and laid plans for a resort colony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\"\"<\/span>\r\n

The Grassy Mountain area of Mitchell and McDowell counties was long a traditional settlement of Scotch-Irish families. In the summer of 1909, Charlotte lawyer Heriot Clarkson discovered the Alpine-like setting and laid plans for a resort colony. Heriot\u2019s Switzerland Company purchased 1100 acres, arranged for railroad and toll road access, and began to build Swiss-style cottages. Construction of the Blue ridge Parkway after 1930 drew growing numbers of visitors. The Big Lynn Lodge was built on the site of a great Linden tree where, tradition has it, the Over Mountain Men rested on their way to victory in the Revolutionary War Battle of King\u2019s Mountain. Little Switzerland has endured as a retreat center and tourist attraction into the 21st century.<\/span><\/blockquote>\r\n

Multimedia:<\/h3>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[87,351,366,478,530],"class_list":["post-7065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-land","tag-blue-ridge-parkway","tag-mcdowell-county","tag-mitchell-county","tag-scotch-irish","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7444,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions\/7444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}