Highlands, North Carolina is a great place for a vacation home!

The town is located on a plateau in the southern Appalachian mountains in Macon County, North Carolina.

Founded in 1875 by Samuel Truman Kelsey and Clinton Carter Hutchinson who, supposedly, drew lines from Chicago, Illinois to Savannah and from New Orleans to Baltimore. They felt that the intersection of these two lines, would eventually become a great trading center and commercial crossroads.

In the 1930s the town became a golfing mecca when Bobby Jones of Atlanta and some of his well-heeled golfing buddies founded the Highlands Country Club. Today that club is one of seven successful residential country club communities situated between Highlands and Cashiers, North Carolina. Tourism in Highlands is mostly seasonal (generally March through November), with the community drawing Southerners from the oppressive heat and humidity of their flat-land Florida, Georgia, South Carolina. Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana summers.

Highlands owes its cooler weather to the fact that it straddles the Eastern Continental Divide, giving it a much higher elevation above mean sea level. It calls itself the highest incorporated town east of the Rocky Mountains. Because of this, it also receives quite a bit of precipitation, mainly as rain but also a few snows scattered throughout the winter.

The town is quaintly dotted with many antique dealers, a well-known auction house, restaurants, (six of which have received awards from Wine Spectator), shops, inns, as well as several buildings on the National Register of Historic Places