Located at the intersection of Skyland View Drive and US-321, this marker recalls the place where…read morean educator had an impact on the local community. The marker reads, "Emily Prudden, 1832-1917. Missionary. Founded 15 western N.C. schools including Pfeiffer College forerunner. Her Skyland Institute stood here." Online, there is more information. "Few educators were better known in western North Carolina at the turn of the century than Miss Emily C. Prudden (1832-1917). In his eulogy Congregational minister George Dickerman estimated that no less than 10,000 students had passed through her schools." "Prudden was one among many "Yankee schoolmarms" who came South in the late nineteenth century. At age fifty-one, she left her native Connecticut, where she had raised her late sister's orphaned children, to serve as housemother at Brainerd Institute in Chester, South Carolina. Her accomplishments over the next thirty years were all the more remarkable in light of the fact that from the age of seventeen she was deaf. She began her work in North Carolina in 1884 when she acquired fifty acres at All Healing Springs in Gaston County. Her school there was known in time as Jones Seminary and later as Linwood College. In 1888, she established Lincoln Academy nearby for black females. From this beginning she went on to found schools at Blowing Rock, Connelly Springs, Saluda, Elk Park (one white, one black), Mill Springs, Cedar Valley, Lawndale, Brevard, Tryon, and near Lenoir. This last one was her greatest success. Oberlin Home and School, transferred to the care of the Woman's Home Missionary Society in 1903, was the direct forerunner of Pfeiffer University at Misenheimer." "The strategy she followed at Oberlin was the one she used elsewhere: to establish a school and, after a few years, transfer control to an organization (usually religious and most often the American Missionary Association) better able financially than she to keep it going. Consequently Prudden usually did not stay in one community more than two or three years. Upon retirement in 1909 she returned to Blowing Rock, site of her Skyland Institute founded in 1887. Prudden's body was returned to Connecticut for burial. The site of Skyland Institute and her home is now the location of a condominium complex." [Review 15910 overall - 3126 in North Carolina - 1415 of 2021.]

I am disabled and have had a hard time getting the trash to the road. My sanitation guy told me…read morethey could walk right up to the house and get the trash, all I had to do was get a letter from my Dr. These guys work well together, I have put alot of things out there not just trash, boxes...tables...chairs...couches...etc. They have picked it all up. The trash pick up is only 1 thing they do, they also provide water services, provide local police and plan, execute local events and more. I just wanted to say Thank you for providing friendly services to the locals, we appreciate it.

A majestic view from an elevation of 3,834 feet along the Blue Ridge Parkway near the town of…read moreBlowing Rock, North Carolina. It seems there aren't many folks traveling along this beautiful parkway who can resist pulling over and taking it all in. Raven Rocks Overlook, located at Milepost 289.5 the view faces northwest, one of the few northern overlooks in the area. It's definitely worth a few minutes of your time...

I am an avid reader and never have I found a library will with such current books and a staff that…read moreis so caring and attentive, I call them my friends. They never hesitate to give good recommendations when I am lost for another good book. Once you go there you will never stop because you get so spoiled. Wyn Flo

Boone is a good, not great, college town. Its not an Athens Georgia, but Id send my kid to…read moreAppalachian State if he wanted to go. Really nice group of eateries, a few "ok" and not so great bars. Great offee shops. Tons of outdoor experiences await nearby. Fun shopping on main street and the Wautaga Co. Farmers Market is fantastic on Saturday mornings. App State is a great school.

This little library is a small branch of the main branch Alexander county Library in Taylorsville,…read morebut is much more convenient and accessible to the people who live just near the county line like we do! They have a great selection for being as small as they are. They also have useful community resources, computers and printing starting at .10 cents a page for black and white! The librarian (Glenda) is SUPER sweet, kudos to her for setting up and supervising several events with my child's school and continually encouraging young lives to read. You can tell she has a passion for what she does! I highly recommend this branch, I can honestly say I love it even more than the larger branch in Taylorsville!

Nice library, friendly helpful staff but it's loud. People talking on cell phones, talking with no…read moreawareness that it's a library etc.