NW of Brevard off U.S. 276 in Pisgah National Forest, Brevard, North Carolina. County/parish: Transylvania.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 19, 1974. NRIS 74001377.
7 contributing buildings.Also known as:
The Biltmore Forest School was the first school of forestry in North America. Carl A. Schenck founded this school of "practical forestry" in 1896 on George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina. The school grounds are now part of Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County, North Carolina, as the Cradle of Forestry in America, a 6,500 acres (2,600 ha) historic site which features exhibits about forestry and forest conservation history.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722367