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Sylva is an incorporated town located in central Jackson County, in the Plott Balsam Mountains of Western North Carolina, United States of America.
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Sylva and is
* John Evelyn's Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber is published in London in book form.
It is served by Cullowhee Valley School, located in the township, and Smoky Mountain High School in Sylva.
Sylva: Named for William D. Sylva, as is the town of Sylva, located within the township, which is served by NC 107, US 74 / 23, and BUS 23.
Jackson County is served by three main roads: the Great Smoky Mountains Expressway runs east-west across the northern half of the county and connects the county seat of Sylva to Waynesville and Asheville in the east and Cherokee, Andrews and Murphy in the west.
Grace Community Church is a new church with casual, contemporary worship that meets at the Sylva Inn.
The town is served by U. S. 64 to Highlands ( west ) and Rosman ( east ), and N. C. 107 to Sylva ( north ) and Walhalla ( south, via S. C. 107 ).
Sylva is named for William D. Sylva, a Danish handyman who spent a month in the home of General E. R. Hampton, who owned much of the land where downtown Sylva now sits.
" This is disputed, as its investigation has turned up that William D. Sylva wasn't Danish, and likely didn't have the last name of Sylva.
Sylva and incorporated
Sylva was once the only town in the United States with a waterfall within its incorporated limits, Dills Falls, but the waterfall was destroyed to make way for the 4-lane Sylva Bypass ( US 74 / 23 ) in 1973.
Sylva and town
A rivalry existed between Sylva and Dillsboro in their early days, as the efforts of one town were matched by the other, and the two towns were very much alike, and the same distance from the then-county seat of Webster.
To support this, his daughter's maiden last name was Selvey according to genealogical archives, and her daughter who recently came to the town also said the real last name of " William D. Sylva " was " Selvey " instead.
Sylva is home to Southwestern Community College and is the closest town of size to nearby Western Carolina University ( away ), one of the seventeen schools of the University of North Carolina system.
Several movies have been filmed in Sylva, including the 1993 blockbuster The Fugitive ( at Harris Regional Hospital, a scene where the town is seen from Sylvan Heights right after the train wreck, and along Scotts Creek where it crosses West Main St .) and the 1972 movie Deliverance ( along Mill Street ).
A massive fire and the railroad's failure to come to the town caused the larger and more powerful railroading center of Sylva to take over the county seat designation.
Kungur () is a town in the southeast of Perm Krai, Russia, located in the Ural Mountains at the inflowing of the Iren and Shakhva Rivers into the Sylva River ( Kama's basin ).
Sylva and located
The county seat designation and courthouse were located here from 1851 to 1913, but the county seat subsequently moved to Sylva.
Mark Watson Park is located in a depression behind the historic courthouse that once was the campus for Sylva High School and Sylva Elementary School and before that, fairgrounds.
The main campus is located in a valley of the Tuckasegee River between the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, west of Asheville, North Carolina and 5 miles south of Sylva, NC.
" Carmen Sylva " High School is the city's only high school ( located in Eforie Sud, which also has a general school, while another general school is located in Eforie Nord ).
Sylva and central
Downtown: The historical center of Sylva was at one time home to many businesses, homes, people, the central High School, depot, some industry, and many churches.
Sylva and Jackson
It also has two old abandoned buildings, a large stone two-story structure built in 1938 as an agricultural / vocational shops building for Sylva High School, and a metal garage building that once housed Jackson County Rescue Squad.
Harris Building ( 1902 ), First Citizens Bank ( 1928 ), Sylva Fire Department ( 1980 ), all on Main Street, Roscoe Poteet Public Pool ( 1969 ) on Municipal Drive, the Hooper House ( 1906 ), the last remaining historic home on Main Street, and the Sylva First United Methodist Church ( 1917 ) on Jackson Street.
Downtown Sylva from the old Jackson County Courthouse ( Sylva, North Carolina ) | Jackson County Courthouse
Sylva and Mountains
Dills Cove: Once the location of Dills Falls, the neighborhood and falls were cut in half by the construction of the Sylva Bypass, which is also known as the Great Smoky Mountains Expressway and US 74 / 23, in 1973.
From Sylva to its end at Interstate 40 near Clyde, Corridor A uses the Great Smoky Mountains Expressway, which carries US 23 most of the way and U. S. Highway 74 for its entire length.
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