I stumbled upon the McDowell County Oral History website today. One of the videos I just had to watch was this one where Bill Carson tells the story as it was related to him by Dolly Vance about the flood of 1916 at the Orchard at Altapass.
If you’ve ever taken a [...] ALTAPASS — Three thousand people turned off the Blue Ridge Parkway this past weekend to visit the historic Orchard at Altapass, drawn by the valley and ridges covered in burnt orange and red, yellow and green. Most of what they saw from the orchard and this stretch of parkway is included in 1,488 acres that [...] |
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