
Valle Crucis Episcopal Mission
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
U.S. Historic district Contributing property

Church of the Holy Cross
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Location	NC 194 N side, 1 miles SW of jct. with NC 1112, near Valle Crucis, North Carolina
Coordinates	36°11′45″N 81°47′46″W / 36.19583°N 81.79611°W / 36.19583; -81.79611
Area	426 acres (172 ha)
Built	1896
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman
NRHP reference No.	93000938^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 09, 1993

Valle Crucis Episcopal Mission, also known as Valle Crucis Conference Center, is a historic Episcopal mission church complex and national historic district located near Valle Crucis, Watauga County, North Carolina. The Gothic Revival style, gable-front stone Church of the Holy Cross was built about 1924. Other contributing resources are the church cemetery with the earliest burial dated to 1808, Auchmutv Hall dormitory (1910-1911), The Annex (c. 1920), "The Farm House" (1915), Former Dairy Barn (now "The Apple Barn", 1903-1911), Former Apple Barn (now "The Bunk House", 1914), The Mission House (1896), the Power Dam (1903-1930), the Valley / Field, and the Apple Orchard. The Valle Crucis Episcopal Mission was established by the Episcopal Church in 1844-1845.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.^[1] It is located in the Valle Crucis Historic District.

William West Skiles helped start the religious community at Valle Crucis.

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Bibliography

Bumgardner, Jim. All the Vales Rejoice. [Blowing Rock, N.C.]: [St. Mary's of the Hills], 1991. Notes: Notes: A capella music used in Anglican worship services. Performer(s): Performed by the choir of St. Mary's of the Hills ; choir director, Jim Bumgardner. Event notes: Recorded live at St. John's Episcopal Church, Valle Crucis, N.C., November 1991. Description: 1 audiocassette: analog, Dolby processed. Contents: Victimae pachali laudes -- O Lord, the maker of all thing -- Lord, for thy tender mercies sake -- O Lord, give thy holy spirit -- If ye love me -- Purge me, oh Lord -- Call to remembrance -- da Palestrina -- O bone Jesu -- da Palestrina: Sicut Cervus -- Ave verum corpus -- Kyrie and Agnus dei -- Cantate domino -- Almighty and everlasting God -- Thou knowest, Lord -- Miserere mei -- Ubi caritas -- A grace -- The lamb.
Clyde, Sharon. Watauga County, North Carolina: Including Its History, the Valle Crucis Episcopal Mission. [Place of publication not identified]: Earth Eyes Travel Guides, 2012.
Cobb, David Cleopas. Transforming Communities: The Formation of Monastic Communities in the 19th Century and Episcopal Service Corps Houses in the 21st Century. Thesis (D. Min.)--University of the South, 2017, 2017.
French, William Glenney, and H. Glenney French. History of the Order of the Holy Cross at Valle Crucis, North Carolina Under Right Rev. Levi Silliman Ives, 1847-1851. 1911. Notes: History, 1847-1850, of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross's combined monastery, divinity school, training school for boys, and mountain mission at Valle Crucis, Watauga County, N.C., written by its first Superior. Included are copies of letters and diary entries, 1833-1858, added by French's son, H. Glenney (Horatio Glenney) French, ca. 1911.
Gooding family. William L. Horner Collection: Gooding Family Papers. 1799. Notes: Collection consists primarily of correspondence and financial records. The bulk of the correspondence concerns the Confederacy and troop maneuvers in the Shenandoah Valley area of western Virginia, eastern North Carolina, and Georgia. Letters describe the disillusionment of soldiers, camp life, the occupation and administration of New Bern by Union forces, scarcity of goods, duty at Fort Holmes, soldier desertion, General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea," Union Army's attack on Atlanta and Savannah, and the Confederacy during Sherman's Carolina Campaign of 1865. Other correspondence concerns the Gooding family and their business affairs, including letters from Edward Stanley; the spread of illnesses such as influenza, whopping cough, and typhoid fever; and the Episcopal Seminary of Valle Crucis in western North Carolina. Contains Civil War records, including a list of African American men on board the U.S. steamer COSSACK, a list of soldiers issued supplies, and a copy of "The Proclamation made by the Union Government at New Bern." Legal records concern runaway slaves, R.J. Gooding's will, and the Gooding pharmaceutical business. Land records describe the purchase and sale of land by the Gooding family. Financial records include promissory notes, account ledgers, sale inventories, a list of taxable property, and purchase receipts.
Horner, Junius M. Southern Appalachian Highlanders. Time Period of Item: 1927. Penland School of Crafts, n.d. Summary: This illustrated pamphlet was designed to encourage donations to support the work of Episcopal missions in Western North Carolina. Published by the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina in 1927, the pamphlet gives brief descriptions of the mission work being done in the Appalachian School (Penland, N.C.), Valle Crucis School (Valle Crucis, N.C.), Christ School (Arden, N.C.), and Patterson School (Patterson or Lenoir, N.C.) during the 1920s. The pamphlet was written by the Right Reverend Junius Moore Horner (1859-1933), bishop of the Diocese of Western North Carolina. From 1923 to 1938 the Appalachian School served as the umbrella institution under which the Penland Weavers and Potters were organized and the Penland School of Handicrafts (now Penland School of Crafts) was established.
Hughson, Walter. The Church's Mission to the Mountaineers of the South. Hartford, Conn: Church Missions Pub. Co, 1908.
McCracken, Elizabeth. Western North Carolina Trains Youth. 1938. Notes: "A series of articles on the church schools in the Diocese of Western Carolina, which appeared in The spirit of missions for June-September, 1938." Description: 16 pages: illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Contents: The Appalachian School at Penland, staffed by devoted missionaries, prepares its pupils for Christian living -- Girls school at Valle Crucis steadfast to ideal of mission begun nearly a century ago in the Vale of the Cross -- The Patterson School at Legerwood teaches boys lessons of eternal verity including value of the land. Responsibility: by Elizabeth McCracken, literary editor of The living church and editorial correspondent of The spirit of missions.
Oxford, Scott Alexander. Maturing in the Spirit: Spiritual Development at Church of the Holy Cross, Valle Crucis. 1994.
Richardson, Katherine H. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Valle Crucis Episcopal Mission (Valle Crucis Conference Center). 1993.
Skiles, William West, and Susan Fenimore Cooper. A Sketch of Missionary Life at Valle Crucis in Western North Carolina 1842-1862. New York: James Pott & Co, 1992.
Valle Crucis Mission School (N.C.). Valle Crucis Mission School Collection. 1895. Notes: Collection #127. Collection was arranged by a student intern and staff archivist.
Valle Crucis Summer School for Religious Education. Valle Crucis Summer School for Religious Education, July 5th-17th. [Valle Crucis, N.C.]: [Summer School for Religious Education], 1926. Notes: Announcement for the 1926 summer school session, including list of executive committee and instructors, rates, dates, and mission statement.
Wright, Lewis. 1997. "The Church of the Holy Cross Valle Crucis, North Carolina". Anglican and Episcopal History. 66, no. 4: 564-569.

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