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The little town of Kona, looking west from route 80.
Looking east from Kona, toward route 80.
This historic chapel sits beside a small graveyard.  Charlie Silver, a victim of a famour murder in 1831, is buried in that graveyard-- in three separate graves.  His young wife, Frankie, was hanged for the murder in Morganton in 1833.  This story, along with the legends that grew around it, is one of the best known pieces of folklore of the region.  (Read about it in The Ballad of Frankie Silver, a novel by Sharyn McCrumb.)  The site of Frankie and Charlie's cabin is only a few hundred yards from the boundaries of the High Cove property.
 

 

 

 

 

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