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FHS288th

Image ID: FHS288
Image Date: [1964?]
Image Title: Cornerstone at the Cradle of Forestry Visitor Information Center.
Image Caption: [The Cradle of Forestry in America is a national historic site located within the Pisgah National Forest near Asheville, North Carolina. The site documents the birth of forest conservation in the United States at George Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate in the late nineteenth century and commemorates the nation's first forestry school, the Biltmore Forest School, founded on the estate in 1898 by Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955).]
Photographer: [unknown]
Use Restrictions: Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information: Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.