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Warm Springs, Hot Springs and Boiling Springs, North Carolina

Not far from Asheville is the town called Hot Springs. It is where Spring Creek runs into the French Broad River.

Native Americans were already enjoying the thermal springs when the first Europeans moved into the area. The first record …

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Lake Osceola, the Lake View Hotel and Camp Osceola for Boys

This is Lake Osceola. Osceola is an Indian name, but Seminole, not Cherokee. I read somewhere that a lot of our roads and lakes have Seminole Indian names because the earliest developers were from south Florida and re-used the names …