DeSell & Co Realty Group Buyer's Guide Autumn 2015 | Page 3

Did you know…..        Between 1916-1920 Annie Oakley, sharp-shooter and star of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, was in charge of the Pinehurst Gun Club and gave exhibitions twice a week. Tennis was the first planned activity in Pinehurst, not Golf. Riding, hunting, polo and lawn bowling and archery were also popular in Pinehurst‟s early days; many remain so today. North Carolina‟s official toast was established in 1957. “Here‟s to the land of the long leaf pine, the summer land where the sun doth shine, where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great, Here‟s to the „Down Home‟ the „Old North State‟” In Southern Pines, the Weymouth House and Gardens serve as a Writer‟s Retreat as well as the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Weymouth Woods, a 900 acre nature preserve in Southern Pines, is home to the endangered species the Red cockaded Woodpecker, the Pine Barrens Tree Frog, and the world‟s oldest Longleaf Pine at 466 years old. Lake Auman, located just 10 miles west of Pinehurst in Seven Lakes, is reported as the clearest lake south of the Great Lakes, east of the Rockies, and north of Silver Springs Florida! Seagrove, approximately 30 minutes from Pinehurst, is one of the largest communities of potters with the longest continual history of pottery making in the United States.