A draft joint resolution was unanimously approved by Council at its June 3 meeting. The next step is for the Board of Education to approve the resolution.
Henderson County (Jun 3, 2021) - A property swap that exchanges 25 acres of the city-owned Berkeley Park for the county-owned Edwards Park property at Five Points advanced Thursday night with the Hendersonville City Council s adoption of a resolution authorizing the agreement.
Henderson County (Jun 1, 2021) - After talking to North Carolinians across the 11th Congressional District, school principal, pastor, coach and community leader Eric Gash has filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission to run for Congress to unseat U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn and deliver real results for families in Western North Carolina.
The spring is believed to be the work of two early developers from Jacksonville, Florida.
“They created the Echo Mountain subdivision,” said Town Council member Paul Hansen. It was the first subdivision up the mountain after town founder W.A. Smith developed springs, lakes and other amenities in lower Laurel Park.
John H. Patterson built the large home that became the Echo Mountain Inn as a summer residence around 1896. The property has changed hands numerous times since Patterson built his summer retreat, serving as a tea room, a camp for girls and, since 1935, an inn. The Echo Mountain subdivision came 16 years after Patterson first arrived, when he and a partner named Ives laid out the lots.