Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Hotel industry

A good room cost $1.50 a night and a corner room $3

Langren Hotel was one of the largest in Asheville in the 20’s, catering mostly to businessmen. A good room cost $1.50 a night.

Thurmond, WV will always hold a place in Ripley’s Believe It or Not for the Dunglen Hotel’s fourteen year continuous poker run.

South Carolinians have known about the mineral springs of Glenn Springs, in the Blue Ridge foothills near Spartanburg, for centuries.

Ellsworth Milton Statler, virtually without benefit of formal education, climbed to the pinnacle of the hotel business.

Once the public knew what and where the bunker was, of course, it was no longer a safe wartime shelter for Congress.

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