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Caesar's Head Hotel | |
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View of Caesar's Head rock [ball1738]. Hotel sat on top of the cliff area. | |
| About the area: | Above the Greenville County, S.C. a tall escarpment extends for some miles. The height of the escarpment is approximately 1,000 to 1,500 feet high in places. Caesar's Head is one the highest points in the mountain wall. Today, the hotel is gone, but it remains a favored location of vacationers, summer homes, and lodgings. It is situated approximately 16 miles southeast of Brevard, N.C. and is adjacent to Highway 276. |
| "Caesar's
Head Hotel situated upon Caesar's Head Mountain, a spur of the Blue
Ridge, in Greeneville County, South Carolina, 3,500 feet above
Tide Water. Climate unsurpassed, Scenery varied, grand, and beautiful.
The thermometer ranges during the hot months from 50 to 70 [F.]
Freestone and Chalybeate Springs. Temperature 52 to 54 [F.] Twenty-six
miles north of Greenville, South Carolina, and twenty-four miles west of
Hendersonville, North Carolina. Easily reached by daily hacks from
either place, over good roads, which have been lately improved. A Post
Office at the Hotel, and daily mail. Accommodations good, having been
enlarged and improved. Terms moderate. Billiards, none-pins, and other
amusements for guests. A resident physician. See author's notice. F.
Bartow Beville, Superintendent ; E.M. Seabrook, Proprietor. "
(1883, Zeigler p. 381) See Caesar's
Head Mountain.
"...our party arrived at the ledge of rock called Caesar's Head. A strong imagination is required to see any resemblance in the profile to a man's head, much less to a Roman's of the heroic type. We are inclined to believe the story told by a mountaineer: An old man in the vicinity had a dog named Caesar, whose head bore a a striking resemblance to the rock, and being desirous to commemorate his dog, the appellation, 'Caesar's Head', was given to the rock." (1883, Ziegler, p. 355) |
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| Caesar's Head, Cedar Mountain Bridge, road to
Caesar's Head and High Falls. (N945) Caesar's Head, side view. (N1738) Caesar's Head, west side of rock. (N1000) Caesar's Head. (N2109) |
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