From the opening of Chimney Rock Park by Jerome Freeman in 1890 to Dr. Lucius Morses dreams for Lake Lure in the 1920s; the development of tourism in the Hickory Nut Gorge area is one of the untold stories of the regions history. For much of the 19th century; the area was remote and known to few; Freeman was perhaps the first to truly appreciate Chimney Rocks potential; but it took the invention of the automobile and the completion of the Charlotte to Asheville Highway in 1915 for that potential to be fully realized. By the 1920s; Chimney Rock Park and the gorges hotels and summer camps were known to thousands. In 2007; the State of North Carolina purchased Chimney Rock Park from the Morse family; and a new chapter began.
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