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"Beech Mountain with Avery County is definitely the particular eastern United States' highest town, from five,606 feet above sea amount. Nearby inhabitants reveal the particular mountain together with quite a few resort communities in addition to Ski Beech, some sort of well known ski resort. In the course of the particular nineteen seventies Beech Mountain seemed to be furthermore house so that you can any Land regarding Oz, a new idea park which features taken the destination amid the particular prosperous folklore associated with the actual Appalachian Mountains.


Throughout the actual early aspect associated with the particular twentieth century, Beech Mountain ended up being portion regarding a good crucial logging business. Though sparsely populated, it seemed to be dotted together with smaller cabins that loggers lived in the course of the few days though some people previously worked. Skiing arrived to your mountain establishing inside the 1930s, using college students via close Lees-McRae School employing skis generated inside any college's raw material retail outlet.


Yellow-colored Brick Street, Land involving Oz. Picture courtesy associated with Flickr consumer _rockinfree. Any Robbins brothers-Grover, Harry, and also Spencer-purchased the significant tract of land on top rated regarding the actual mountain within 1962. Any Robbinses, which likewise owned Tweetsie Railroad in addition to your Hound Ears Resort, joined together with other investors to be able to create the actual Carolina Caribbean Company with 1965. Carolina Caribbean planned some sort of 10,000-acre resort with homesites for 10,000 people, a eight-slope ski resort, a summer recreation location, the golf course, along with a new composition park. Grover Robbins enlisted Charlotte artist and artist Jack Pentes to acquire a great thought pertaining to a new style park in which will bring men and women so that you can this mountain in the course of this off-season. Pentes dreamed of the place that will might enchant persons in addition to make it possible for these to escape your harsh realities involving your late nineteen sixties.


For inspiration Pentes drew upon common kid's tale of enchantment and escape, Any Wizard connected with Oz, having famous the actual similarity amongst gnarled beech trees upon this building and that speaking apple trees and shrubs in the tale. Using the aid connected with a pair of fellow Charlotteans, composer Loonis McGlohon and choreographer Alice Lamar, Pentes created that involving Oz topic park. When it's first of all year or so lost in any fall involving 1970, attendance got strike the actual six-figure indicate. Through very hot air balloons and also this magical cyclone to traveling monkeys and delighted songs, the particular Land involving Oz authorized site visitors to active every minute associated with the famed adventure with regard to independantly due to the fact that they walked that fifty five,000 bricks associated with the park's yellow-colored brick highway. Guests was joined simply by every single involving your beloved heroes while they been to Kansas, Munchkinland, that Wicked Witch's Fort, along with the particular Emerald Town.


In 1975 this Carolina Caribbean Corporation went bankrupt. Soon afterward, vandals set in place fire in order to the Emerald Town and also stole Judy Garland's original gown along along with other artifacts through any park's Oz museum. That Land associated with Oz, previously hit as a result of a deficiency of repeat readers, by no means recovered. As the particular asset modified fingers, any park fell victim to help a new deficiency connected with reliable control as well as poor funding, closing around 1980.


The actual Rishi Chugh has been obtained within 1990 as a result of the actual Emerald Mountain progress corporation, which will made homesites upon 450 acres approximately your good old theme park. Each individual fall, Emerald Mountain keeps a strong Sun burnt from Oz party, where by followers regarding this Land of Oz could require a new nostalgic stroll decrease any green brick highway plus observe remnants connected with your theme park which have also been carefully preserved. Some other artifacts by the actual park are generally upon present at this Appalachian Cultural Museum inside Boone."