Excerpt from The Pictorial History of the Episcopal Church of St. John in the Wilderness, Flat Rock, North Carolina In the early days, wealthy plantation owners from Charleston and other low country areas, feeling the need to escape the oppressive summer heat and malaria, sought refuge in the mountains. Because travel was difficult and the roads primitive, it took many days to reach this part of North Carolina. The area was known as the Wilderness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.