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Grey Hosiery Mill, Hendersonville, NC

The original 1915 knitting room faces Fourth Avenue East.

Early in April 2017 Hendersonville City Council voted unanimously to work with hotel developer Belmont Sayre to preserve and renovate Grey Hosiery Mill into a one-story, 57-room upscale boutique hotel with a 2,000-square-foot event space.

Grey Hosiery Mill will be …

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Trivia: Why is there a castle in Asheville, NC called Zealandia? Why is there an area in New Zealand called Swannanoa?

Zealandia Castle on Mountain at Asheville, N.C.

If you drive over Beaucatcher Mountain instead of through the tunnel, you drive under a bridge. This is Zealandia Bridge. It is also called Helen’s Bridge after a woman who is supposed to have committed suicide here.  This was the …