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Banner Elk, North Carolina. / 36.15861°N 81.86750°W / 36.15861; -81.86750. Banner Elk is a town in Avery County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,028 at the 2010 census. [ 4] Banner Elk is home to Lees–McRae College .
NRHP reference No. 13000226 [1] Added to NRHP. May 1, 2013. Robert Chester and Elsie H. Lowe House is a historic home located at Banner Elk, Avery County, North Carolina. It was built in 1949, and is a 1+1⁄2 -story, Minimal Traditional-style house. It has a cross-gable roofline, random-range quarry-faced stone walls, two tapered stone ...
Built from 1776 to 1863. The following table shows the plantations in North Carolina that were built between 1776 and the end of the Civil War. / 35.83750°N 77.621806°W / 35.83750; -77.621806 ( Adelphia Plantation) / 36.05333°N 78.19583°W / 36.05333; -78.19583 ( Archibald H. Davis Plantation) Built in 1820 (about).
Woolly Worm Festival. The Woolly Worm Festival is an event held each October since 1978 in Banner Elk and Avery County, North Carolina. [1] The festival celebrates the supposed weather-predicting abilities of the woolly worm, also called "woolly bear" which is a caterpillar or larvae of the isabella tiger moth. Events include a caterpillar race.
North Carolina Highway 691 ( NC 691) was established in 1925 as a new primary routing between NC 69, in Ingalls, to NC 194, near Linville Falls. In 1926, NC 691 was truncated further north from Linville Falls, at the east end of Three Mile Highway; the old alignment replaced by NC 194. In 1930, NC 691 was extended north, with a concurrency with ...
Banner Elk Hotel. / 36.16056°N 81.87194°W / 36.16056; -81.87194. Banner Elk Hotel is a historic hotel building located at Banner Elk, Avery County, North Carolina. The original section of the hotel dates to about 1856, with expansions made between 1877 and 1891. Two-story rear wings and smaller additions were made between 1891 and 1898.
Elk Knob State Park is a 4,423-acre (17.90 km 2) [ 2] North Carolina state park in Watauga County, North Carolina, in the United States. Opened in 2003, it is one of North Carolina's newest state parks. Elk Knob State Park was established to preserve the natural state of Elk Knob, the third highest peak in Watauga County. [ 3]
East Bend, North Carolina. / 36.21778°N 80.50833°W / 36.21778; -80.50833. East Bend is a town in northeastern Yadkin County, North Carolina, United States. The population is 634 at the 2020 census. [ 5] It is a Piedmont Triad community.