ter’s son Robert Morrison when she died. When Morrison died, he left much of the fortune in a trust that built Avery County’s Morrison Library. The trust also provides substantial continuing support to Cannon Memorial Hospital as well as the library. Marmon also owned about 200 acres in the lower part of the county that, through Morrison’s generosity, became Avery County’s airport.
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In 1968, Carolina Caribbean purchased the nursery from Mortimer and Payne and also the fish hatchery property to develop Linville Land Harbor. Their first order of business was to rebuild and improve the dam. Carolina Caribbean set up property lines in the resort so that no private property lines reached the lake, thus leaving a common area so all members have access to it. Lots were surveyed and laid out by engineers Harold Burkett and Ken Winebarger. Lehmann joined them later. Lehmann first worked for Willard Byrd, who did land planning and design work at Beech Mountain for Carolina Caribbean. Byrd designed the Beech Mountain golf course and was in line to design the Land Harbor course, but when Carolina Caribbean hired Lehmann away from him, he sued them for “stealing his employee,” and the Byrd relationship ended. Carolina Caribbean sent Lehmann to plan its Walden development in Charlotte (now Ballantyne) and the Carolina Shores and Little River Land Harbor (now called Windjammer) projects at Calabash. He returned later to Beech Mountain and Linville Land Harbor. In 1972, the Linville Land Harbor Property Owners Association (POA) was formed by Carolina Caribbean. People were buying property, nine holes of the golf course was open for play, infrastructure was in place, amenities were being added and things were good. Two years later, Carolina Caribbean was feeling a financial crunch due to overexpansion while using borrowed money. Then, the economy tanked, and interest rates soared to 20 percent. Carolina Caribbean could not generate enough property sales to pay for the high cost of its rapid expansion, much less the interest expense of a highly leveraged company. On September 12, 1975, Carolina Caribbean declared bankruptcy. What turned out to be Land Harbor’s darkest hour actually was the dawn of a new day. The bankruptcy courts awarded the Bank
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