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Moses Cone Mansion and Southern Highlands Craft Guild ShopAll photos and illustrations by Pat Johns ©2010 - present
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At this time, new roads in western North Carolina were improving access to the Blue Ridge Mountains. Moses and his wife Bertha began to look for land near Blowing Rock and eventually purchased more than 3500 acres including Flat Top and Rich mountains. They added three lakes and stocked them with trout and bass. The local farmers whose farms were now a part of the Cone estate were allowed to stay and many were hired as tenants of his new estate. The Cones then built their mansion, the white, 20-room Flat Top Manor.
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Moses Cone died in 1908 and his wife lived on the property for 39 more years until her death in 1947. She left the property to The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital in Greensboro. Three years later they donated the property to the U.S. Government.
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Today the Manor House is home to one of the Southern Highlands Craft Guilds shops. According to Southern Highland's website (see link below): 
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The Moses Cone Park has many hiking, mountain biking and horse riding trails open to the public. There are stables on the property, and approximately 27 miles of carriage trails including the Craftsman’s Trail, a 20-mile ring around the estate. 
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