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Fields of the Wood is a Christian religious park of more than 200 acres (81 ha) in Cherokee County, North Carolina, owned by the Church of God of Prophecy—a Holiness Pentecostal denomination. It is best known for the largest representation of the Ten Commandments in the world, measuring 300 feet (91 m) wide across a mountainside. [1]
There are 13 National parks in North Carolina. Only the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a traditional park. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is also a World Heritage Site. Other parks include heritage areas, historic sites, national seashores, historic trails, and memorials managed by the National Park Service. Several of the ...
In addition to the Ten Commandments, there is a further carved rock on the summit of the tor, [4] called the Jubilee Stone. The Jubilee Stone was inscribed in celebration of the Silver Jubilee of George V and reads: [5] 1282 FT. BUCKLAND BEACON A BEACON FIRE – ONE OF A CHAIN-WAS LIT HERE BY THE PARISHIONERS OF BUCKLAND-IN’THE-MOOR IN ...
Mount Sinai, showing the approach to Mount Sinai, 1839 painting by David Roberts, in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia. The biblical account of the giving of the instructions and teachings of the Ten Commandments was given in the Book of Exodus, primarily between chapters 19 and 24, during which Sinai is mentioned by name twice, in Exodus 19:2; 24:16.
Moses with Tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. Mount Horeb (/ ˈ h ɔːr ɛ b /; Hebrew: הַר חֹרֵב Har Ḥōrēḇ; Greek in the Septuagint: Χωρήβ, Chōrēb; Latin in the Vulgate: Horeb) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God, according to the Book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible.
Mount Pisgah is a mountain in the Appalachian mountain range and part of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, United States.The mountain's height is 5,721 feet (1,744 m) above sea level, and it sits approximately 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of Asheville, near the crossing of the boundaries of Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Transylvania counties.
Black Mountain is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 8,426 at the 2020 United States census . [ 4 ] It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area .
NC 10 was also known as the "Old Hickory Highway;" at the North Carolina State Capitol building there is a granite highway marker commemorating the North Carolina soldiers of the U.S. Army's 30th "Old Hickory" Division, who fought to break the Hindenburg Line in France during World War I. [9] The marker was placed in 1930 where NC 10 passed by ...