The Glen Alpine Springs School, pictured here in Burke County’s Brindletown area, originally opened in 1878 as a 50-room, three-story resort hotel, bringing guests in search of health in its cooling spring water. Located 13 miles south of Morganton on 300 acres near the South Mountains, the Glen Alpine Springs Hotel was reportedly the largest wooden structure in North Carolina. In 1900, the property was sold for $3,000 to the Presbyterian Mission Board, which operated a boarding school there from 1902-1910. Margaret G. Grant of New Jersey initiated the school’s work before leaving management to her cousin and superintendent, the Rev. Dalzell Schoonmaker. After closing in 1910, the building situated off the old Rutherford Road (now U.S. 64 South) sat vacant until it burned down in 1936. This image was submitted by Ted Alexander to Picture Burke, a digital photograph preservation project of the Burke County Public Library.
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