Lake Toxaway Methodist Church, also known as Methodist Episcopal Church South, is a historic

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on Cold Mountain Road on the north side, 0.1 miles norwest of the junction with NC 281 in

Lake Toxaway Lake Toxaway is the largest privately held lake in North Carolina. The lake, developed by the Lake Toxaway Company, is man-made and covers , and the shoreline is . Water sources for the lake include multiple free-flowing mountain streams wit ...

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. It was built in 1912, and is a small one-story,

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style frame structure. It has a six-sided louvered

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and a tin roof. It was added to the

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in 1994.

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