The Nu Wray Inn is an historic hotel located at Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina. It was built in 1833 at the time Yancey County was formed and a year before Burnsville was established. It was originally built of logs and had eight bedrooms and a dining room and kitchen. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Thomas Wolfe spent the night there in 1929 when he was a witness at a murder trial in Burnsville.Elvis Presley and William Sidney Porter (O. Henry) were also guests.
It was owned by the same family for a century until the death of Wray family patriarch Rush Wray.
Writing about the Inn in 1941 the journalist Jonathan W. Daniels said:
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