The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-30
NYE AT cRsAR's HEAD.
How to Get There From New York City
The Advantages of Having a Flow
of Ianouaoa
Copyright, 1892, by Edgar ". Nye.l

1t is n of the most delightful and
soul renovating trips one can well
imagine. Caesar's Head is situated at
the summit of Caesar's Head noun
tains, in Greenville county, S. c., and
is 1900 feet above the level of Arietta,
street, Tompkinsville, Staten Island.
Inleaving New York City for Caesars
Head you the Cortlandt street
ferry and take the first right hand
road. Coesar's Head is so called be-
cause of a peculiar shaped rock at the
summit of the mountain which bears a
striking resemblance to nothing that
has ever been seen before in the history
of the world, either sacred or p~rofane.
Strictly speaking, it is hardly a
mountain, but rathera an inclined plane
terminating abruptly in a p~recipice
1900 feet high, from which one may
see the state of South Carolina and OBJ
jects as small as Governor Tillman.
Objects more than 200 miles apart
may be seen distinctly by means of the
undraped eye.
At Caesars Head there is a clean and
commodious hotel with a capacity of
200 guests. I know of no more de-
lightful place to remain in during the
hot weeks of July and August. 1t is
not an exciting life, but it is healing
soothing and elevating. 1t is very
rare that n finds a spot so nearly
ideal, even in this ideal mountain
country of the Blue Ridge.
Very little crime Is found here at
Caesars Head and malaria can not
exist. Mineral springs occur here, as
they are apt to do within a few yards
of all summer hotels. They contain
protoxide of iron, chloride, magnesia.
slicic acid and plain American water.
There is a daily mail at this hotel,
hired help and a pack of cards. The
thermometer never rises above 20 de-
grees, and did not even during the
terrible heat of July, this year.
The respiratory organs seem to take
new interest in their job here, and the
sluggish blood may be observed to
mantle in the cheek of the invalid.
The distance from Greenville is %
miles; from Hendersonville 26 miles;
from Fletcher Station, on the R. and
D. Railroad, 80 miles; from Europe
1913 miles, via Asheville.
An easy way to go is to wire Hender-
sonville for a team and take the Rich
mond and Danville road to that point,
having the team ready and provided
with a large lunch. Diseases of the
lungs, throat and nervous system
promptly relieved.
I took my own team and added a
phaeton attached to a saddle horse,
but would not advise this course for
others. The team is designed more
for ornamental driving down the mall
at Ticktown, and after thirty miles
up a mountain road these glossy steeds
have not life enough to even stab
feebly at a fly with their deformed
tails. Also the saddle horse Dandy
Ioped in the phaeton a good deal of the
way and tried to follow a pack of
hounds at Buck forest. Nothing can
be less dignif1ed than a saddle horse
hitched to a phaeton riding to hounds
or seeking to follow the bounding coon
up a sourwood tree.
We started from Fletcher armed
with a map made from memory by
DIR. Fletcher. Our course was mainly
| south, along the curse of the French
Broad river toward its head. We
crossed Mud creek, a sullen torrent
which looked some like the Chicago
water supply, and passed on through
! the musical woods. Our road was
fringed with flowers and berries, the
berry season being continuous from
May to September. Then fruits of
other kinds are plenty everywhere.
Later on we passed a mission school,
in the door of which sat a big plain
boy with large, comprehensive, bare
feet. He greeted III pleasantly with
his thumb on his nose, making some
mystic sign which we could not under
stand. Possibly it was a sign Of dis
tress and meant that he needed a
handkerchief. School al taken up
at the time, and we got a Whit of the
knowledge as we passed the door.
We soon reached the French Broad
river, and followed it's banks closely
for three hours. 1t is a majestic river
with an ornamental fringe of beautiful
trees and q solemn and dignifed car
rage that wins the respect and esteem
of the beholder.
Farming is INDUCED in along this