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It is located about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Franklin, the county seat, along either side of Cowee Creek as it flows toward the Little Tennessee River. The district includes the archaeological site and platform mound of the Cherokee town of Cowee, a major settlement until the time of the American Revolutionary War.
English: This is a view of West's Mill Road in Cowee, North Carolina, the center of the Cowee-West's Mill Historic District. Visible, from left to right, are the edge of the C.N. West General Store, the former West's Mill Post Office, the Aunt Vonnie West House, and the Will Morrison House.
Too-Cowee (sometimes Cowee) (also Stecoah), was an important historic Cherokee town located near the Little Tennessee River north of present-day Franklin, North Carolina.It also had a prehistoric platform mound and earlier village built by ancestral peoples.
Ghost Town Village (formerly "Ghost Town in the Sky at Ghost Mountain Park") is an abandoned Wild West-themed amusement park in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, United States whose status is currently, as of March 2023, the subject of an ongoing lawsuit. [1] It sits atop Buck Mountain, with a top elevation of 4,650 ft (1,420 m).
Cowee Gap (el. 4,199 ft (1,280 m)) is a mountain pass located between Highlands and Cashiers in the far southern part of western North Carolina.It is located on the Eastern Continental Divide, which also forms the boundary between Macon and Jackson counties, and between the Cullasaja River and Chattooga River basins (in turn part of the much larger Tennessee and Savannah basins) to the west ...
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The mining industry was temporarily revived by World War II, but mining declined steadily in the postwar years, with few mines lasting into the 1960s and the last iron mine in the county closing in 1979. [1] Lumber, however, has remained a substantial economic enterprise in the area, employing thousands of people until the present day. [1]
Echo Bay Mines Limited went on to open a new gold mine, called Lupin Mine, in what was then the Northwest Territories and is today in Nunavut. [3] It entered production in 1982. Echo Bay Mines Limited developed numerous other properties, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] mostly in the United States , including two mines in Nevada, McCoy/Cove and Round Mountain gold ...