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Jones House is a historic home located at Boone, Watauga County, North Carolina. It was built in 1908, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, cubic, Colonial Revival / Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It has a two-story rear extension and projecting bays. The front facade features a hipped roof single-story porch. [2]
Boone: 18: US Post Office-Boone: US Post Office-Boone: January 11, 1996 : 679 W. King St. Boone: 19: Valle Crucis Episcopal Mission: Valle Crucis Episcopal Mission: September 9, 1993 : NC 194 N side, 1 miles SW of jct. with NC 1112
Boone is a town in and the county seat of Watauga County, North Carolina, United States. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, Boone is the home of Appalachian State University and the headquarters of the disaster and medical relief organization Samaritan's Purse. The population was 19,092 at the 2020 census. [5]
Its county seat and largest community is Boone. [3] [4] The county is in an exceptionally mountainous region, known as the High Country. It is the home of Appalachian State University, which has approximately 21,570 students as of Fall 2024. [5] Watauga County comprises the Boone, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The Boone family owned the plantation until fourteen years after descendant John Boone's death, when his widow Sarah Gibbes Boone sold the property in 1811 to Thomas A. Vardell for $12,000 (~$256,960 in 2023). Shortly after, Henry and John Horlbeck bought the property, including the enslaved African Americans. They used a number of the enslaved ...
The 18-hole club was founded by Robert Ross and was built by golf course architect, PB Dye, son of celebrated golf course architect Pete Dye. In May, 1991, The Crawford Group headed by Jack C. Taylor, acquired Boone Valley Golf Club. [2] The 440 acre property is located 3 miles from the Daniel Boone Home in the Femme Osage Valley.
Boone-Withers House is a historic home located at Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina. It was built about 1883, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, Late Victorian style frame dwelling. It has a large, two-story gabled wing and three smaller, two-story bays. It features a one-story, hip roofed wraparound porch and two tall chimneys. [2]
Madeleine Anne Pickens is a businesswoman and philanthropist who has lived in the United States since 1969. She is a developer of and stockholder in the Del Mar Country Club in Rancho Santa Fe, California, and the owner of the Mustang Monument: Wild Horse Eco-Resort near Wells, Nevada and the founder of Saving America's Mustangs.