Valle Crucis Publishings Valle Crucis - a book by David W. Yates with photographs by William A. Bake.
Visitors find it unforgettable.
In the 1840s, Levi Ives, the second Episcopal bishop of North Carolina, looked down upon the valley from a hillside and saw three streams that formed the shape of a St. Andrew's cross. He christened the place Valle Crucis - Latin for Vale of the Cross. Bishop Ives set about building the Valle Crucis Episcopal Mission, later the site of the first Episcopal monastery since the sixteenth century. Debra Long Hampton David W. Yates is a former assistant attorney general whose family has lived in Valle Crucis for over 150 years. As a youth, he spent summers and weekends working at the Valle Crucis Mission School, on local farms, and at the Mast General Store.