Heart of Beech Retreat - North Carolina High Country Getaway

09/11/2026

Want to be in the heart of the North Carolina Highlands and enjoy the cool weather and laidback Mountain life? You will find it at Heart of Beech Retreat. Book your highland stay at airbnb.com/h/heartofbeechretreat

09/11/2026

Nicole Allen how far away is this? Interested?

09/07/2026

Want to be in the heart of the North Carolina Highlands and enjoy the cool weather and laidback Mountain life? You will find it at Heart of Beech Retreat. Book your highland stay at airbnb.com/h/heartofbeechretreat

09/05/2026

A seventeen year old girl opened a school for three children in a Moravian settlement in 1772, and it never closed. 📖

The Moravians who built Salem in the North Carolina Piedmont did something unusual for their century. They took the education of girls seriously as a matter of principle, not as an ornament. Among the town's early residents were sixteen girls and women who had traveled roughly five hundred miles from Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania, most of the way on foot, to join the new community.

In late April 1772 they started what they called the Little Girls' School. The teacher was Elisabeth Oesterlein, who was seventeen years old. There were three students, Maria Magdalena Meyer, Anna Elizabeth Bagge and Maria Magdalena Schmid. One young woman, three children, one room.

That school became Salem Academy, and by its 1772 founding date it is the oldest continuously operating educational institution for girls and women in the country. 🕯️ There is something worth sitting with in the arithmetic. Four people in a room in a frontier village, at a moment when almost nobody in the English speaking world thought a girl's schooling was worth building anything permanent for, and the thing they started is still running two hundred and fifty four years later.

09/02/2026

Want to be in the heart of the North Carolina Highlands and enjoy the cool weather and laidback Mountain life? You will find it at Heart of Beech Retreat. Book your highland stay at airbnb.com/h/heartofbeechretreat

Today, Sept. 2, marks the 74th anniversary of the Mile High Swinging Bridge opening to the public!

Since 1952, America's highest suspension footbridge has offered spectacular views and connected generations with this mountain and the thrill of adventure. Hugh Morton's dream to make Grandfather Mountain accessible lives on today each time that someone crosses the bridge.

Leave a comment below and share your favorite memory of the Mile High Swinging Bridge or celebrate with us by posting your own photo of the bridge with the hashtag !

📸: Hugh Morton | GMSF

09/02/2026

September happenings: The Live Music continues throughout September at The Village stage!🎹🎼🎤🎷 — at The Village of Banner Elk.

Want to be in the heart of the North Carolina Highlands and enjoy the cool weather and laidback Mountain life? You will find it at Heart of Beech Retreat. Book your highland stay at airbnb.com/h/heartofbeechretreat

08/27/2026

Want to be in the heart of the North Carolina Highlands and enjoy the cool weather and laidback Mountain life?
You will find it at Heart of Beech Retreat.

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