Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-05-19
A Few Ideas About Walhalla.
CFor tho Keowee Courier.1

Every year the South bccoues more and
more OF resort for invslds from the
North, who seek in it's more genial olin,sto
healing for the wounds made by the search.
ing East Winds, sudden chances and long
storms Of Noltheru winters. Experience
has taught that sojpurn 10 the extreme
South is too dehilitatiug, and more eoua-
Ole temperature seoms desirable. Wal.
ha'la, is for this reason, most delightfully."-
situated, uud, but for the month of March,
os favorable resort as could be found.
Ihe admirable way in which the town is
laid out makes it specially attractive. It
is so unlike the mushroom growth of many
places about it. The roads sro good, the
drives pleasant, aud there is a sufficient
difference between the customs of the peoa
pie, aud those of Northern people, to moke
study of them interesting.
Even during the winter Walhalla is a
pretty place; broad plain, flooded with
sunshine, smiling up to the mountains,
whose varying outlines are continual
study. Blu, if pleasant in winter, how
much more lovely in spring. From the
timo the peach trees waved their pink
piumes in the air it has been growing in
oeeuty till Remembrance Of it will
be soy &forever" Its beautiful YER.
durc, luxuriant foliage, lovely flowers
and distant mountains over which Aoat the
ETHEREAL clouds Of spring, soft fleece upou
an azure blue, make most delightful pic.
ture to hold 10 ones mo,nory.
The clear soft atmosphere, too, 80 restful
and dreamy, is just what is needed for in
valids whose nervous prostrstion seeks
repose, and this is suffi iently tempered by
mountain breezes to give strength as we'll
as rest.
Now, while wo say all this, in prise of
Walhalla. and feel thst We might Justly say
much more Of the kndoess of its people.
DO, there is one great trouble which an
invalid is sure to feel That is, the limited
fare supplied by it's markets, and sioce the
country produces SO ahundantly, it seems as
if only little enterprise were uoeded to
supply such deficiency. Charleston, but a
d"y's journey away, will supply suoh luxu-
ries as tho neighborhood fails to afford; but
the immediate neighborhood could easily be
made to produce most things needed Good
mutton. gsms and abundance Of delicious
trout might always be 10 market, if the de-
mand were sure aud ccrtsin. Moreover,
the wioters are 80 mild that vegetables might
with but little expense be raised upder
glass, and if not ready for tho table all win
ter, could be had very early 10 tho spring.
These things, perhaps, could not be af-
fordcd at the present rate of board in Walls
halls, but invalids would certainly be vii
ling to pay more for greater comforts, and
this article is written looking forward to
the time when Walhalla shall become a
a place of largo resort. Hundreds of in
valds 20 every year to Aiken. ThomusviIle,
Macon, AsheviIle and other we'll known
places. Walhalla, in some respects, is bet
ter thsn any of them. Lot it onoe become
we'll known and then let provision be made
for the comfortable entertaiument Of inva--
lids and it should become very popular.
hundred iDvalids, staying three or four
months in place, not only leave oonsiders-
BILE money in it, but help its progress 10
many ways.
ls the subject worth any consideration?
VISITOR.
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