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The Tryon Daily Bulletin The World’s Smallest daily Newspaper. Seth M. Vining, Editor Be Per CopyTRYON. N. C„ THURSDAY, OCT. 17TH, 1946 Published Daily Except TEst. 1-31-28]Saturday and Sunday(Vol. 19—No. 177) ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AUGUST 20, 1928, AT THE POSTOFFICB AT TRYON, N. C. UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS, MARCH 3, 1879 REMINISCENCES By Miss Helen A. Carver. In 1895, near Oak Hall, and amss Melrose Avenue from our „.m\ry of today, there was a small •^(eyard on the site of Mrs. Brown’s present home and running back into what is now Lincourt. It belonged to Mr. Whithey, whose cottage is still visible, incorporated in the Chas. Lynch home. This little vineyard will serve to in troduce a short history of Tryon grape-growing as I have learned it fom others, and as, in a small way, I took part in it. One of the earliest residents to become interested in grape, as well as other fruit growing, was Gen’l. Ulysses Doubleday, who owned a large tract of land on Laurel Avenue and beyond, up the lower slope of “Little Piney Mountain”. That he was shipping fruit in 1891, I have learned from Miss Lamort whose father, Alexis J. iort, first came to Tryon in that to ship grapes and other fruit . ^Jen’l. Doubleday. Mr. Lamort was one of many unusual people who have come to this Carolina harbor. He left France in 1882: spent two years in a New Jersey vineyard and then went to Flori day. For his first venture in fruit growing. The climate there was unsatisfactory. He then came to Asheville, and down to Tryon tc assist Gen’l. Doubleday. This cli mate suited him and he thought so well of possibilities here for agriculture and fruit growing that he decided to make a home in this vicinity. Needing capital he re turned to Asheville and found a position as manager of one of the _Continued on Back Page_ ZONING ORDINANCE Report to the Mayor and Town Commissioners of the Committee appointed by the Mayor to make a study and submit a report on a Zoning Ordinance to be adopted by said Mayor and Commissioners for the Town. Committee is com posed of F. P. Bacon, Chairman; Prentice Luckey, W. M. Spivey, and J. O. Safford. We, the Committee, recommend that the Mayor and Commissoiners of the Town of Tryon, Polk County, North Carolina, adopt the hereby submitted report and instruct the Town Counsel to prepare this Or dinance to conform with the prop er statutes which; will be approved by the proper authorities of the Town without further delay or discussion. F. P. Bacon, Chairman; J. 0. , Safford, Member Secretary; Pren tice Luckey, Member, ffm. M. Spivey, Member, The Committee recommends that the Town be divided into two Zones, one for business and one residential. The limits of the Busi ness Zone are set forth below and all the rest of the area, within the Town, will be classed as Resi dential. RESIDENCE ZONE—Section 1. No building or land shall be used and no building shall be erect ed or altered which is arranged, intended, or designed to be used, except for one or more of the following purposes: 1. Dwelling for one or more families. 2. Inns, Boarding Houses, or Hotels. 3. Offices for Physicians, Sur geons, Dentists or other members _Continued on Page Two_
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