![]() ![]() Finley and Josephine Mast have two sons, Joe, the son who stayed on the farm, is blind by the time he is a young adult. Most of the buildings in the meadow were used for livestock, storing hay, and grain and for tobacco curing. Josephine used the “Loom House” to make all of her weavings and was very well known for her outstanding work.ġ919 The Masts had by now built 16 different buildings as part of the old mountain farmstead all of whom have survived to this day. Some of Josephine’s weavings are in the Smithsonian. The president’s family is so impressed by the work they redecorate the room around the weavings. 1913 When President Woodrow Wilson’s daughter, Jessie, is to be married, Josephine Mast gathers neighbors to help weave spreads and rugs for Jessie’s room in the White House. Over the next 20 years, five different symmetrical additions are completed, ultimately comprising thirteen bedrooms and one bathroom. In 1900 – Finley and his wife, Josephine, also known as Aunt Josie, begin to make more additions to the house, and begin to operate the property full-time as both a farm and inn. 1880 David’s son Andrew begins building the main farm house and Andrew’s son, D. Now called the Loom House, this original cabin is widely believed to be the oldest habitable log cabin in the state of North Carolina. Three generations reside in this cabin, and like most of the Valle Crucis residents, the Masts raise corn, grain, sheep, cattle, and food for the family. In 1810 Joseph Mast’s son David, builds the two-room log cabin which now sits facing the main house at the Mast Farm Inn. ~ Emma Johnson 1792 Joseph Mast walks from Pennsylvania and settles much of the land that is now Valle Crucis, North Carolina. “So Much More… The world renowned Mast Farm Inn of Valle Crucis is nothing short of a handcrafted masterpiece of North Carolina Folk Art”. ![]()
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