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Tuesday, February 11, 2020 / Published in Uncategorized

Casa Loma

The Asheville Art Museum opened its doors (finally!) late last year. On the left is the old Pack Library building and to the right is the newest entrance to the museum. Do you know what that corner looked like before the museum expanded or, even earlier, when it was the main entrance to the Diana
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Wednesday, January 08, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Education, Local History, Photograph Collection

Asheville’s First City Schools for Black Students, Part five: Builders of Black Schools (concluded)

This installment offers a look at the life and career of the fifth of the five original teachers at Asheville’s first black city school, Beaumont Street. We’ve saved one of the best teachers for last. We’ve also included information on the members of her family because of their prominence in Asheville and their connections to
African American EducationAmanda WalkerBeaumont SchoolBeaumont Street SchoolHester Walker Ford LeeJohn Wakefield WalkerSegregationWillie DodsonWillie Holt
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Saturday, January 04, 2020 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, African Americans, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Houses, Local History

Confronting the Legacy of N.W. Woodfin: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

The Woodfin community, like many other Buncombe County communities is named for a man who enslaved human beings. If you’ve followed along in this series, you’ve probably recognized that to be a common theme among communities; they’re named for people of extravagant wealth. Wealth earned on the backs of enslaved black people. Indeed, our county
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesAfrican AmericansAppalachiaBuncombe CountyBuncombe County HistoryCivil WarCommunity HistoryEducationenslaved peopleEnslavementlaborlawyersLocal HistoryNicholas WoodfinRailroadsSlaverySlavery in Buncombe CountyWoodfin
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Saturday, December 28, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Architecture, Asheville History, Buildings, Buncombe County History, Houses, Local History, Photograph Collection

A “Worst” Asheville Album: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

I remember “worst” Asheville. It’s the neighborhood where my Grandfather was born in a house with dirt floors, where I went to preschool (back when Crossroads Assembly was “West Asheville Assembly” located on Haywood Rd.), attended my first dance lessons (in the building where Asheville Greenworks is today), and went along with my mother to
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesAppalachiabefore and afterCrossroads AssemblyEatieriesGentrificationHaywood RoadRestaurantsService StationStandard Pizza Co.Sunny Point CafeUniversal JointUrban AppalachiaWest AshevilleWest End BakeryWorst Asheville
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Friday, December 27, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, African Americans, Asheville History, Local History, Photograph Collection

Southside: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

Henry Robinson wrote in 1992 about his childhood community of Southside–a mournful eulogy really, to a place that no longer exists–that the sprawling community “stretched over 400 acres from Biltmore Avenue westward to the French Broad River.” Robinson informs us today that it was “the largest residential area for African-Americans in Asheville and a melting
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesAfrican American HistoryAfrican AmericansBrett SpiveyClaude ColemanCommunity HistoryGreen BookRabbit's Motel and RestaurantSoundSpaceSouthsideSouthside NeighborhoodSouthside RisingUrban Renewal
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019 / Published in Asheville History, Local History, Photograph Collection

Walter H. Page and His Christmas Letter To His Grandson

Who was Walter H. Page? Did you ever wonder who Page Avenue was named for? E.W. Grove named the street in his downtown development for the publisher, writer and ambassador to Great Britain during World War I, Walter Hines Page. Page was born at what is now Cary, NC in 1855. He was one of the
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Thursday, December 19, 2019 / Published in African Americans, Forgotten People, Local Heroes and Heroines, Local History, Photograph Collection

ASHEVILLE’S FIRST CITY SCHOOLS FOR BLACK STUDENTS, Part Four: Builders of Black Schools (Continued)

In our last post in this series on early black public schools, we looked at the lives and careers of Harrison B. Brown and Daniel Cato Suggs, two of the original five teachers who opened Beaumont School on January 9, 1888. This new post profiles two more of these teachers, Edward H. Lipscombe and Mary
African American early educationBeaumont SchoolBlack Education in AshevilleE. A. LlipscombeMary DicksonMary Dickson Harris
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, African Americans, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Friends of the NC Room, Local History

Swannanoa: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

I volunteered this week to create the post for Swannanoa in part because it has been my home for the majority of my life. I was educated in grades 1-12 in “the Valley” (as you will hear natives often call the community including Black Mountain and Ridgecrest). In the 20th century, Swannanoa was transformed by
BeaconBeacon BlanketsBuncombe CountyCharles D. OwenCommunity HistoryLocal HistoryManufacturingMill TownMill VillageRural HistorySwannanoaSwannanoa River
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Architecture, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Friends of the NC Room, Houses, Local History, Postcard Collection, Volunteers

St. Dunstan’s Circle: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

Asheville’s real estate boom in the 1920’s fostered the growth of many neighborhoods: Lakeview Park, Malvern Hills, Horney Heights, and Kenilworth, just to name a few. Biltmore Avenue borders Kenilworth on the east and across the avenue, on a knoll overlooking Biltmore Village, is the pocket neighborhood of St. Dunstan’s Circle. A Mr. Roebling first
1920'sAppalachiaArchitectsArchivesAshevilleBoom and BustCommunity HistoryHistoric HomesHistoric NeighborhoodsHistoric PreservationLocal HistoryNational Register of Historic PlacesPoultryPreservationReal EstateResearchUrban Appalachia
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