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Carriage trail in snow at Flat Top Manor
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- Date created
- November 13, 2006
- Location
- Near Boone, North Carolina
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- This photograph copyright ©2006. Terms of use
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This is a carriage trail in snow at Flat Top Manor near Boone, North Carolina. Flat Top Manor was the house of Linda and Moses Cone. Moses Cone was renowned for his achievements in the textile business. He was industrious and business-savvy but treated even his lowliest employees with respect. Cone acquired 3,500 acres in two tracts to build his estate. He constructed a mansion, along with three lakes stocked with fish and a sprawling network of carriage trails. When Bertha Cone died, she donated the estate to the Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro, which later donated the estate to the U.S. Government.
The estate, now a park, is a treat for tourists on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Visitors can enjoy local crafts, which are displayed inside the house. They can walk or ride horses up the many carriage trails, or they can hike the many footpaths that crisscross the park, including one that goes to a tall tower from which there is a panoramic view.
