Launching a legacy: Canton’s Chestnut Mountain Park officially open

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Wednesday, 27/04/2022

As Earth Day bloomed under one of spring’s sunniest skies yet, more than 150 people gathered on a concrete bridge spanning Hominy Creek just outside Canton to celebrate what Mayor Zeb Smathers termed a “gift of genesis” — the long-awaited opening of Chestnut Mountain Nature Park .

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Waynesville now owns park, can forcefully remove partiers

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Wednesday, 16/09/2015

haywoodHazy ownership of a de facto three-acre park in Waynesville has been resolved, allowing the town to remove a group of partiers who had more or less occupied a corner of the property as squatters.

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