Moses Cone Manor, sits atop the 3500-acre Cone Memorial Park in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, originally known as Flat Top Manor, was one of North Carolina's premier country estates. Built in the late 1890s and early 1900s by textile industrialist Moses and wife Bertha Cone, the estate boasted some 25-miles of carriage roads, two man-made lakes, and extensive orchards that were used to showcase the scientific cultivation of apples.
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Moses Cone Manor is today home to the Parkway Craft Center Shop, operated by the Southern Highland Craft Guild, featuring a bookstore, gift shop and information desk operated cooperatively by the U.S. National Park Service and partner Eastern National. Located on the Blue Ridge Parkway at milepost 294, overlooking Blowing Rock NC.
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