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Picturesque Scenery in the Blue Ridge Thermal Belt
The article extols the Pacolet Valley and Thermal Belt as ideal winter climates with 55 to 70 degree days, 90 degree summers, and dramatic mountain scenery from Tyron Mountain to Melrose Falls. It highlights steam trains on the Saluda Grade, the Helper engine, and vistas from Sunset View and Hog Back Mountain, naming Mt. Mitchell, Greenville, Vanderbilt estates, and Biltmore, concluding with the Land of the Sky theme by Jas Moran Jr.
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Pacolet Valley
Great Thermal Belt
Blue Ridge Mountains
North Carolina
Pacolet
Melrose Mountains
Tyron Mountain
Southern Railway
SaJuda
Melrose Falls
Niagara Falls
Niagara
Sunset View
Hog Back Mountain
Warriors Mountain
Mt. Mitchell
Mitchell County
Rockies
Greenville
South Carolina
Georgia
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
United States
Taxaway Hotel
Mason- Dixon Line
Asheville
Vanderblt
Vanderbilt Estates
Land of the Sky
Grand
Old North
Jas, Moran, Jr