Electricity:
provided through Rutherford Electric Membership Cooperative and Duke Energy.
Recycling and Convenience center: within one mile of the subdivision,
for garbage and recycling disposal. We don’t pay municipal taxes so we don’t
have trash pick-up.
Heath Care and Emergency Services: The Golden Valley Volunteer Fire
Department and a first responder ambulance service are on the Bostic Sunshine
Highway. “911” service is well established.
Rutherford Hospital, a 143-bed acute
care facility complete with a recently renovated Intensive Care Unit and a new
obstetrical and nursery wing, is a 15 miles from the subdivision. Regional facilities include Mission Hospitals
in Asheville, Bowman Grey Hospital and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical
Center in Winston-Salem, Duke University Hospital in Durham, and Carolinas
Medical Center in Charlotte.
Rutherford County is home to
hundreds of physicians whose specialties include pediatrics, family physicians,
internal medicine, cardiology, pulmonology, orthopedics, oncology, obstetrics
and gynecology, dermatology, and plastic surgery, to name a few. And there is no shortage of other medical and
health professionals, including dentists, chiropractors, midwives, physical
therapists, massage therapists, and many more.
If you’re not familiar
with Rutherford County you might like to do a little research. Here’s a link
for general area information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_County,_North_Carolina Rutherford
County is huge at ~566 square miles and diverse from the flatlands to the mountains
with lots of valleys in-between. Rutherford County is comprised of 17 townships
with names like: Golden Valley, Duncan’s Creek, Logan’s Store – these I’m told
were the areas that hosted post offices, back when mail was delivered by
horseback. Within those townships are many communities. My husband and I live
in Sunshine Community. Near to us is Washburn Community and Washburn’s Store,
which actually is a store. You will find a link to a video about Washburn’s
Store on my real estate website KDMcCall.com . At Washburn
Store you can buy anything from pickles, to hoop cheese, to a wood cook stove,
and a cast iron pan…. While you’re there see my Favorites , a links list,
with the little heart and Places in the menu bar.
http://www.rutherfordcountync.gov/ has a lot of local
information including tourism. The chamber of Commerce will be of some benefit,
perhaps you’d like to look at the county demographics Rutherford County Chamber which says we have
~563 square miles. And in case you ran across the term Isothermal
Weather region, here’s my favorite explanation Thermal Belts in NC
You
can check out our Rutherfordton Tour Book, (the home tours are
courtesy of Coldwell Banker, I can show you any of those listings, too). You
might like to see the Farmer’s Fresh Market, Area Information or Community Links
in my blog at the GoldenValley
Blog. I’ve found a couple of PBS films about the area and
embedded them at the bottom of my real estate blog. KDsFarm Sorry,
but my real estate blog is loading pretty slowly… I have too many videos
embedded in it. I need to get rid of a few, but which ones?
Here’s
a ROC link Explore, Exercise, Relax. There are lots of
things to do here, but most of my clients don’t come up to do anything. In fact
they come to do nothing. They just want to enjoy the peace and solitude of a
real mountain retreat, to feel the change of pace, to relax and recharge. I
think you’ll find, most of the time, once you get here, you’ll never leave your
property. We like to say we’re 20 miles from anywhere, and we like it like
that.
If
you need to be near the center of activity, where there’s a lot going on all
the time, I can tell you, this will not suit you. We’re so far out in the
country the speed limit is 55 and there are NO stoplights. While there’s always
something going on, you’re going to have to drive to get there.
But,
I like it like that. Maybe you will too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeqpSFpyCdQ&feature=related
Rutherfordton
North Carolina Earthperks and Rev Tours