The HIDDEN Cost of Building Biltmore: Displacement, Survival, and Sacrifice

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The HIDDEN Cost of Building Biltmore: Displacement, Survival, and Sacrifice

Walk through Biltmore today, and your guide will tell you about the 250 rooms. The six million dollar construction cost. The European craftsmen. The Vanderbilt vision. The architectural genius.
What they won't tell you about are the workers who died building it.
They won't mention the families displaced when George Vanderbilt bought 125,000 acres of North Carolina mountains. They won't discuss the opening day disasters that nearly humiliated the wealthiest family in America. They won't explain how close Biltmore came to being seized by the government after George's suspicious death at fifty-one

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