{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1980", "width": "2527", "jp2-path": "rogersashevillep00newyo_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class\\nBook_\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "1803", "width": "2548", "jp2-path": "rogersashevillep00newyo_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1835", "width": "2481", "jp2-path": "rogersashevillep00newyo_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "1798", "width": "2486", "jp2-path": "rogersashevillep00newyo_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "^it::^\\nAP", "height": "1835", "width": "2481", "jp2-path": "rogersashevillep00newyo_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "I", "height": "1798", "width": "2408", "jp2-path": "rogersashevillep00newyo_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "Rogers\\nASHBVILLK\\nPhoto-Cravures\\nCOPYRIGHT, 1896, BY\\nH. TAYLOR Ij^OGERS,\\nBookseller and Station hr,\\nasheville, n. c.\\n^^/J 3^-\\nThe albertype Co., N. Y.", "height": "1835", "width": "2481", "jp2-path": "rogersashevillep00newyo_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "r/^", "height": "1798", "width": "2486", "jp2-path": "rogersashevillep00newyo_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "FSHEVILLE was named in honor of Governor vSamuel Ashe, of revolutionar) fame, and\\nhas been the county seat of Buncombe Count} since 1794 It occupies an undulating\\nplateau of a mean elevation of 2350 feet above sea level, 18 miles west of the highest\\nportion of the Blue Ridge and close to its monarch Mount Mitchell, which is the highest\\ncrest east of the Rockies. The mountains, lofty though they be, are clothed with\\nverdure to their tops, and present at all seasons the beautiful vistas of a sunny clime.\\nOn the west, Asheville, with her railroad depot and cotton mills, reaches to the banks of\\nthe French Broad River, renowned for its placid beauty in parts, its saults and leaps through\\nthe rugged hills above and below Hot Springs, and skirted all along by the vSouthern Railwa}\\nNo more charming ride can be had anj where than the few hours trip along the French Broad,\\none romantic view chasing another, and like links of a chain tying the memory forever to\\nthis one of the pleasantest spots on earth.\\nSoft and romantic as the name, Swannanoa, two miles south of Asheville, is a truly South-\\nern river, embowered in dense verdure, full of witchery and quiet charm. As an oriental\\nbride, it is guarded from unbidden eyes, until it meets and merges into the French Broad,\\na short distance below Connally s.\\nTo your left is Biltmore, the princely manor of Mr. Geo. \\\\V. Vanderbilt of New York.\\nHe has selected this section of the Western North Carolina mountains to create the lordly\\ndomain. It is the grandest private residence in the United States and rivals the palaces of the\\nold world, apart from the perfection of modern appointments, the variety of the domain and\\nits incomparable situation. To visit the estate, a permit is necessary It may be obtained by\\napplying by post or in person to the office of the Biltmore Estate at Biltmore Station.\\nThere are fifteen hotels and many boarding houses to receive the stranger, twenty-five\\nchurches, four public and a number of private schools and higher institutions of learning\\na Young Men s Christian Association and numerous societies with church affiliation, also a\\npublic library. There are water works, a good sewer .system, gas and electric lighting, electric\\nstreet railways, telephone exchange, fire department and fire alarm, telegraph, six miles of\\nbrick paved streets and a uitrltitude of good drives.\\nThe native people are kind to the stranger and will greatly interest him by their unspoiled\\nsimplicity of speech and person the shaggy-haired mountaineer with his tiny wood-cart, the\\noxen-span, or the cow paired with a mule, measuredly tugging away at the canvas-thatched\\nfamily wagon. 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