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"Beech Mountain in Avery County is your southern United States' top town, at 5,606 yards over sea amount. Neighborhood residents talk about any mountain using quite a few resort communities in addition to Ski Beech, a popular ski resort. Throughout this nineteen seventies Beech Mountain had been furthermore household for you to the actual Land associated with Oz, the subject park that will provides taken it's set amid any prosperous folklore involving the particular Appalachian Mountains.
Through the earlier aspect of the particular twentieth century, Beech Mountain has been portion regarding a strong important logging marketplace. Whilst sparsely populated, it appeared to be dotted with modest cabins wherever loggers were located in the course of your weekend when they will worked. Skiing followed so that you can the actual mountain establishing inside the particular thirties, together with college students through community Lees-McRae College utilizing skis generated with the actual college's timber purchase.
Straw yellow Brick Street, Land regarding Oz. Graphic courtesy connected with Flickr end user _rockinfree. The particular Robbins brothers-Grover, Harry, together with Spencer-purchased a new huge tract regarding land upon prime of the particular mountain around 1962. This Robbinses, that additionally owned Tweetsie Railroad in addition to that Hound Ears Resort, joined together with other traders in order to generate any Carolina Caribbean Corporation in 1965. Carolina Caribbean prepared a ten,000-acre resort together with homesites with regard to 10,000 family members, some sort of eight-slope ski resort, any the summer months recreation region, a golf program, plus a new idea park. Grover Robbins enlisted Charlotte artist as well as designer Jack Pentes for you to build the plan with regard to some sort of design park in which would probably pull persons in order to that mountain all through the actual off-season. Pentes dreamed connected with some sort of position the fact that would enchant people today as well as allow for all of them so that you can escape the hard realities regarding any late sixties.
With regard to inspiration Pentes drew on basic children's tale involving enchantment and escape, This Wizard involving Oz, owning famous that similarity relating to gnarled beech trees and shrubs upon the house in addition to any chatting apple timber with your story. Together with any assist associated with not one but two fellow Charlotteans, composer Loonis McGlohon and choreographer Alice Lamar, Pentes created your regarding Oz topic park. Whenever it is 1st winter finished within this drop involving 1970, attendance possessed strike the particular six-figure mark. Because of warm air balloons as well as the actual magical cyclone for you to traveling monkeys and joyful melodies, this Land of Oz authorized guests to active each minute regarding the actual popular adventure pertaining to independantly as they will walked the particular fifty five,000 bricks of any park's yellow brick road. Prospects ended up being joined simply by each and every connected with your beloved figures because many people visited Kansas, Munchkinland, this Wicked Witch's Citadel, together with this Emerald Metropolis.
Inside 1975 any Carolina Caribbean Company went bankrupt. Soon afterward, vandals arrangement hearth to help the actual Emerald Town in addition to stole Judy Garland's original dress alongside using other artifacts from the actual park's Oz museum. This Land regarding Oz, previously strike by simply the lack associated with repeat website visitors, in no way recovered. Since the home transformed palms, this park dropped target to help the shortage of steady administration and also inadequate funding, closing within 1980.
The actual home has been bought with 1990 by way of that Emerald Mountain growth company, which in turn developed homesites upon 450 acres close to that good old template park. Each individual slide, Emerald Mountain remains a Autumn at Oz get together, exactly where supporters of any Land associated with Oz might consider the nostalgic stroll straight down that yellow-colored brick road together with find remnants involving that topic park the fact that possess already been meticulously preserved. Some other artifacts because of your park are usually on exhibit from the particular Appalachian Cultural Museum within Boone."
