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Black Mountain is the site of the Three Billboards featured in the 2017 film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, with one billboard exposed in April 2016, with the other two covered up. [23] Black Mountain is featured in the 2009 novel One Second After and its subsequent sequels by William R. Forstchen, a town resident. Many local ...
The name Seven Sisters is a reference to the Greek myth of the Pleiades, goddesses immortalized as stars in the sky: [1] Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope. [2] These colleges were created in the 19th century to provide women with the educational equivalent to the historically all-male Ivy League colleges.
Seven Sisters (Massachusetts), a group of ridgeline knobs in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts, US; Seven Sisters, Baja California, seven surfing point breaks in Baja California, Mexico; Seven Sisters Falls, Manitoba, a community in Manitoba, Canada; Seven Sisters Mountain, Alberta, Canada; Seven Sisters Peaks, British Columbia, Canada
The Swannanoa River flows through the Swannanoa Valley of the region of Western North Carolina, and is a major tributary to the French Broad River.Its headwaters arise in Black Mountain, North Carolina; however, it also has a major tributary near its headwaters: Flat Creek, which begins on the slopes of Mount Mitchell.
Intheoaks, also known as In-the-oaks, is a historic estate and a national historic district located at Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.The district encompasses nine contributing buildings, two contributing sites, seven contributing structures, and four contributing objects associated with a country estate of the 1920s.
Black Mountain College was a private liberal arts college in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice , Theodore Dreier, and several others. The college was ideologically organized around John Dewey 's educational philosophy, which emphasized holistic learning and the study of art as central to a liberal arts ...
Blue Ridge Assembly Historic District is a national historic district located near Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 29 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object associated with the Blue Ridge Assembly, conference center of the Young Men's Christian Association.
The Big Walker Mountain Scenic Byway can be accessed at either exit 47 or exit 52 from Interstate 77. Starting from the access at exit 47 on VA 717, points along the way include: [4] 1.1 mile, access to Stony Fork Creek road; 1.25 mile, eastern trailhead of Seven Sisters Trail, on left; 1.5 mile, Astin homesite, access to Stony Fork Creek