Roughly, area surrounding Kanuga Lake, Hendersonville, North Carolina. County/parish: Henderson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 31, 1995. NRIS 95001056.
40 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.
Kanuga Conference Center (Cherokee: ᎧᏄᎦ) is affiliated with the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and the Anglican Communion. It is located on 1,400 acres (5.7 km2) near Hendersonville, North Carolina, with scenic Kanuga Lake at its center. Yearly, more than 35,000 guests utilize the facilities, which include the conference center, Camp Kanuga (for boys and girls), Camp Bob, and the Mountain Trail Outdoor School.
The word kanuga is of Cherokee origin, referring to both a former place of a Cherokee settlement in South Carolina and to a Cherokee tool resembling a short comb with seven teeth used in preparation of players in a Cherokee ritual stick ball game. The description "gathering place" also came to be associated with the term, which led to its selection as the name of a new vacation colony in 1909.
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