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Lodge on Gorham's Bluff

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From Travel + Leisure , JUN 2002

The four-story, white-frame manor sits on a 700-foot-high promontory above northeast Alabama's Tennessee River Valley, and the vistas seem borrowed from a Thomas Cole painting: Appalachian hillsides shrouded in forest, tugboats plying the vast river beyond, a bald eagle or two overhead. Six spacious guest rooms are done up in old plantation style, all polished mahogany, chintz, and antique Oriental rugs; four have private porches for serious valley-gazing. Evening arrives with river breezes, the thrum of katydids, and a four-course...MORE>>

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Last updated June 2002