This post card says the picture is of the "road to Mountain Meadows Inn." A message on the card is dated Feb. 28, 1914. A now deceased Asheville native, Bill Hamrick, recalled that in his youth he travelled to the Inn by way of Elk Mountain Scenic Highway because "that was before there was a Town Mountain Road"
This early photo (above) is labeled "Autos at Summit, Sunset Mountain." The card has no date. It cost only 1 cent to mail
Six miles above Asheville the road approached the Mountain Meadows Inn.
Only one building stands today as a result of a fire. It was the Inn's Dining Hall, now a private home. At one time a railroad was proposed to serve the Inn..
The picture postcard indicated visitors could see Craggy Mountains from the Dining Veranda. A Dairy serving the Inn was some three miles west.
This is the spring that cooled milk products for the Inn. Built
in 1919, it can be seen today on Dairy Gap Rd. under a hugh black walnut tree.
These photographs, except of the Dairy Gap spring, were copyright and published by Herbert W. Pelton of Asheville. They are from a collection owned by realtor Mark Mathews