This clock tower used to keep time for the American Enka rayon factory in the Enka neighborhood of West Asheville. The plant is long gone but the tower has been preserved and will serve as the centerpiece of the new development planned for the site.
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Here's the tower with a gas explosion going on in the background.
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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