Glen Alpine Springs Hotel: A History of Burke County's Finest Accommodation - Paperback
Glen Alpine Springs Hotel: A History of Burke County's Finest Accommodation - Paperback
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by Louisa Emmons (Author)
Glen Alpine Springs Hotel opened its doors in July 1878. At that time, it was the largest frame structure in North Carolina, built by Colonel Thomas George Walton for the princely sum of $30,000. Glen Alpine Springs Hotel was an elegant mineral springs resort whose guests included Governor Zebulon Vance and railroad magnates William Henry Vanderbilt and Jay Gould. The hotel ballroom seated 200 guests and food for the hotel was shipped from New York. When the property was sold in 1900, it became Glen Alpine Springs School (1902-1909). The abandoned structure burned in 1936.
Author Biography
Louisa Emmons is the great-great-granddaughter of Colonel Thomas George Walton who built Glen Alpine Springs Hotel shortly after the Civil War. Emmons is also the author of Tales from a Civil War Plantation: Creekside, which is the story of the plantation built by Colonel Walton in 1836. The book won the Robert Bruce Cooke Family History Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians in 2014. Another book by Emmons, Civil War Voices from Western North Carolina: Letters from the Battlefield and the Homefront won the Society's Willie Parker Peace History Book Award in 2015.
