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Moses H. Cone Memorial Park: A Jewel Along The Blue Ridge Parkway
Much of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina currently is closed due to ice, snow, and at least one rock slide. But visitors can still access some parks along the Parkway.
Anne Whisnant, author of Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History, describes these as Bulges along the Parkway – areas of outstanding scenery where larger amounts of land ... offer Parkway travelers a wider array of facilities. No story captures the imagination as much as Moses H. Cone Memorial Park.
The story of Moses Cone is the legendary story of an immigrant who makes good in America and uses his wealth and influence to help and affect others. It starts when young Herman Cone leaves Germany in 1846, settles in Jonesboro, Tennessee, and opens a dry goods and grocery store.
Moses, the oldest of Herman’s 13 children, works in the family business, now relocated to Baltimore. Later, he and his next younger sibling, Ceasar, shift into textile production. And this is where they make their real money – manufacturing and selling denim material. The brothers move their operation to Greensboro, North Carolina, to be close to cheap land and labor and cotton supplies; they become the denim kings.
more of this story at these links:
http://www.blueridgeparkway.org/moses_h.htm
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com...ge-parkway5507
Anne Whisnant, author of Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History, describes these as Bulges along the Parkway – areas of outstanding scenery where larger amounts of land ... offer Parkway travelers a wider array of facilities. No story captures the imagination as much as Moses H. Cone Memorial Park.
The story of Moses Cone is the legendary story of an immigrant who makes good in America and uses his wealth and influence to help and affect others. It starts when young Herman Cone leaves Germany in 1846, settles in Jonesboro, Tennessee, and opens a dry goods and grocery store.
Moses, the oldest of Herman’s 13 children, works in the family business, now relocated to Baltimore. Later, he and his next younger sibling, Ceasar, shift into textile production. And this is where they make their real money – manufacturing and selling denim material. The brothers move their operation to Greensboro, North Carolina, to be close to cheap land and labor and cotton supplies; they become the denim kings.
more of this story at these links:
http://www.blueridgeparkway.org/moses_h.htm
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com...ge-parkway5507