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"Beech Mountain in Avery County is usually the particular southern United States' top city, in five,606 feet over sea level. Community inhabitants discuss the actual mountain using several resort communities as well as Ski Beech, some sort of preferred ski resort. In the course of your nineteen seventies Beech Mountain had been furthermore property to be able to any Land of Oz, the motif park that offers taken it is set amid that rich folklore involving your Appalachian Mountains.
All through the early part regarding this twentieth century, Beech Mountain seemed to be portion regarding a good necessary logging current market. Although sparsely populated, it had been dotted together with small cabins where by loggers were located during the particular some days although they proved helpful. Skiing came to help your mountain starting inside this thirties, along with pupils via close by Lees-McRae University applying skis developed inside the particular college's timber buy.
Yellow-colored Brick Highway, Land connected with Oz. Impression courtesy of Flickr user _rockinfree. The actual Robbins brothers-Grover, Harry, as well as Spencer-purchased your big tract regarding land on top rated regarding the actual mountain with 1962. The actual Robbinses, that additionally owned Tweetsie Railroad as well as your Hound Ears Resort, joined together with some other investors that will produce the particular Carolina Caribbean Corporation with 1965. Carolina Caribbean prepared the 10,000-acre resort with homesites with regard to 6,000 families, a eight-slope ski resort, a summer recreation place, a new golf program, and a new design park. Grover Robbins enlisted Charlotte artist and also artist Jack Pentes that will establish the notion with regard to a new themes park of which would bring persons for you to the actual mountain during the particular off-season. Pentes dreamed regarding any position of which would certainly enchant men and women and also allow for these so that you can escape any unpleasant realities associated with your late sixties.
Regarding inspiration Pentes drew upon basic kid's tale associated with enchantment and escape, That Wizard of Oz, having noted any similarity among gnarled beech trees and shrubs upon the particular building and also any chatting apple woods in the tale. With your support involving a pair of fellow Charlotteans, composer Loonis McGlohon plus choreographer Alice Lamar, Pentes established that associated with Oz motif park. When the primary spring ended around the particular slide associated with 1970, attendance acquired strike the particular six-figure make. Via scorching air balloons and also any magical cyclone in order to flying monkeys together with pleased songs, the actual Land associated with Oz allowed visitors so that you can experience any second involving the actual renowned adventure pertaining to themselves as people walked this 55,000 bricks connected with the park's orange brick highway. Site visitors are joined by means of each associated with that beloved characters because some people frequented Kansas, Munchkinland, the actual Wicked Witch's Fortress, plus this Emerald Metropolis.
Within 1975 the Carolina Caribbean Corporation went bankrupt. Shortly afterward, vandals set in place fireplace to help this Emerald Town along with stole Judy Garland's original dress coupled with some other artifacts through any park's Oz museum. The actual Land connected with Oz, by now hit simply by a new shortage regarding repeat prospects, under no circumstances recovered. While that residence changed arms, this park fell victim to a shortage associated with regular management plus weak funding, closing inside 1980.
Your property or home ended up being ordered inside 1990 simply by any Emerald Mountain improvement corporation, which often established homesites on 450 acres all over the actual outdated concept park. Every single tumble, Emerald Mountain keeps a strong Rishi Chugh from Oz occasion, in which fans regarding the actual Land associated with Oz may well take on any nostalgic stroll straight down this orange brick road in addition to watch remnants associated with this themes park that get been meticulously preserved. Other artifacts by this park tend to be upon screen in that Appalachian Cultural Museum with Boone."
