The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-10-25

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verse. The whole of this mountain is
owned by the Toxaway Company, and
on top they have nice hotel, and
from the tower that stands some 20 or
30 feet above the top Of the building,
with the aid Of a glass, one has fine
view of all the surrounding peaks, and
on clear day can be seen the cities
Of Greenville and Spartanburg. After
spending pleasant day on this beau
tiful mountain, we returned to camp,
and from there made our way up to
Fairfield Inn, better known as George
town Lake, distance of two and one
half miles. OF the several resorts
owned by this great Company, with
an expenditure of several hundred
thousand dollars, they have made
Fairfield Inn queen Of them all. The
first thing to catch the eye Of the Wis
itor is pretty artificial lake that con-
tains about 300 acres, with beauti-
full driveway around it.rF For the pleas
ure of the visitors little rowboats are
kept to carry them over the lake. The
thousand dollar hotel here is
thing Of beauty, and is Of modern
construction in every way, and is
lighted up by electricity. After we
had eaten supper and had taken a
stroll around the lake under "moon-
beams fair. we returned to camp and
were soon in the land Of Nod" The
next day being Sunday, Of course we
all got on "dike'' and made our way
to the boat-house for ride. We pro-
cured two boats for our little crowd,
and. our ride across the lake to the
beautiful little waterfalls that come
from the top of Ball Mountain, was
highly enjoyed by all. After takinga
walk over the hotel grounds we re-
turned to our camp, where the remain
der of the day was spent in recreation
until late in the afternoon, when we
were once more on the move, this
time for Cashiers Valley, which lies
four miles to the west of Georgetown
Lake. All along our way through the
mountains we had been astonished at
the low price of buck and gooseberries,
but everything was made clear when
we saw, on our way to the Valley, hogs
gathering them on the shores. We
reached this place about sundown, and
spent a very pleasant night with
Mrs. Pell. We cannot say so much
for the Valley, other than the quie-
tude of it makes it very desirable. for
them that want to get out from the noise
of busy life. We only remained over
night at this place, for after an alb
sence of several days from home, we
were beginning to want to cast our
eyes on that dear place again.
Early Monday morning We were on
the road, this time headed for Horse
Cove, and it was almost sundown be-
fore we reached this place. On our
way We stopped and eat dinner in the
famous White Side Cove. This cove
lis at the foot of the pretty White
Side Mountain, which is 1900 feet
high, and in our opinion it IS one of
the grandest mountains that we saw
on our trip. At Horse Cove we put
up for the night with a Mr.. Grundy
Hill, who is well-known to a great
many Of our Anderson County people,
for his home is camping place for
almost every one who visits the Cove.
We were very agreeably surprised to
have Misses Provost, Gilmer and Seal
and Mr.. Jake Gilmer, of Anderson,
who were spending while at the
Cove, come and spend few hours
with us before we left for Highlands.
They really seemed like homefolks,
and made our stay in the Cove very
pleasant indeed. On our way from
this place to Highlands we had the
pleasure Of visiting Kalalanta, the
home of the wealthy Henry Edmond
Ravinel. We also visited the home of
Preloe Ravinel, his brother, whose
pretty home stands on the top of
Fodder Stack Mountain. We were
kindly shown through the house by
Mrs. Coffee, the housekeeper, and a
finer furnished house we had never
seen bfore. While the furniture was
old and quaint, yet it was very costly,
and the most Of it came from Russia
From here we went down by Sunset
Rock, and just as the shades Of night
were beginning to lower, we drove into
the proud little town of Highlands.
We had pictured this place as one with,
perhaps, store or two, a postofice
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