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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Allen G. Breed

Inside a North Carolina mountain town that Hurricane Helene nearly wiped off the map

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The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making — heated and thrust upward from deep in the Earth, then carved and eroded by wind and water.

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