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Saturday, June 01, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Architecture, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Forgotten People, Historic Montford, Houses, Local Heroes and Heroines, Local History

Cousin Caney the Corrupt Commissioner and the Brand New Emma-Leicester Road: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

Emma is a small community in western Buncombe County that sits nestled between Dryman Mountain and the French Broad River. If you wanted to put a pushpin on a map, you’d place it on the crossroads at North Louisiana and Emma Road (SR 1338). Today, the intersection maintains some character of the old and the
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesagricultureAppalachiaArchivesAshevilleBarnardsvilleBingham HeightsBuncombe CountyBuncombe County CommissionCaney BrownCaney Brown FarmCommunity HistoryCousin CaneyDiverse CommunitiesDryman MountainEarly RoadsEmmaEmma RoadFrench Broad RiverGood RoadsGudger HouseHazel MillLatinx CommunityLibrariesLocal HistoryMontford AveNorth LouisianaSmith Mill BridgeSmith Mill CreekT.C. BrownThe Leicester RoadWalker TireWhittemoreWord on the Street
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Saturday, May 25, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, African Americans, Architecture, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Forgotten People

A Garage, A Block, A Door…The East End: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

Today’s blog is slightly different than other 52 Weeks, 52 Communities posts. This week, the author chose to write an essay about her personal connection to the East End Community. When I was very small, my Uncle Boozer was the biggest man I had ever known. When we gathered for family suppers, Thanksgiving, Christmas, funerals,
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesArchivesBiltmore Ave.BirminghamChicken HillCommunitiesCommunity HistoryEagle Market PlaceEagle St.East EndEssayFamily HistoryFoundryGarageGentrificationHiltonMountain Housing OpportunitiesMunicipal BuildingNewspapersRiver Arts DistrictRiverside IndustrialService StationSouthern RailThe BlockWECANWicked WeedWorking Class History
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Saturday, May 18, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, African Americans, Buncombe County History, Forgotten People, Photograph Collection

“Keep My Name in Remembrance,” Dillingham: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

“Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king’s dale: …and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.” 2 Samuel 18:18 Though he died in 1838, by 1887 Absalom Dillingham managed, in his own way,
2 SamuelAbsalom AbsalomAbsalom DillinghamagricultureAppalachiaBarnardsvilleBig IvyBuncombe CountyBuncombe County Register of DeedsCaneCensusCommunitiesCommunity HistoryDaymon DillinghamDillinghamEnslaved peoplesEnslavementFamiliesFaulknerGenealogyHistoryIsaac DillinghamJessee DillinghamLocal HistoryMillsMolassesMountain MastersRebecca Foster DillinghamSlaveryUnity Dillinghamvital records
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Tuesday, May 14, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Architecture, Buildings, Houses, Local History, Manuscript Collection, Treasures: Very Special Items

A Trip to the Store in Democrat, 1876: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

If you were taking a trip to Burnsville from Asheville between 1847 and 1890 there was, for the most part, only one way to get there. Along the road, there would be a few choice places to stop, but the most famous was Carter’s. It was, like most other Stock Stands along the various turnpike
agricultureAshevilleBarnardsvilleBig IvyBurnsvilleCarter-Swain HouseDemocrat CommunityDry GoodsJohn A. CarterJohn InscoeLewis CassMountain MasterPopuslar SoverigntyStock StandsZachary Taylor
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Saturday, May 04, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Local History, Manuscript Collection

Deaver’s View//Deaverview, A Peek into the Process: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

Many of our 52 Weeks 52 Communities posts have been about rediscovering the origins of the names of our communities in Buncombe County. This week is no different. Deaverview, a community in West Asheville seemed straightforward in this regard: figure out who Deaver is, and call it a day. But, sometimes it’s not that easy.
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesB.M LeeBuncombe CountyBuncombe County CommissionDeaver’s Sulphur SpringsDeaver’s View MountainDeaverviewGoogle MapsH. Taylor RogersInMagic/DBTextworksM.B. Haynes Electric CorpMilkcoNewspapers.comOCR (optical character recognition)PrestoReuben DeaverSpecial CollectionsSulphur Springs HotelThe Asheville Hosiery MillsWest Asheville
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Friday, April 26, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Photograph Collection

Where are All the Chickens on Chicken Hill? : 52 Weeks 52 Communities

Sometimes things just make you wonder, like the name “Chicken Hill.” As a Buncombe County native, I remember asking my dad as we would cut through West Haywood to avoid (what we called then) the Westgate Bridge, “Why is that place called Chicken Hill?” and his response, always trying to teach me better observe my
AppalachiaArchivesAsheville Cotton MillsChicken HillCommunity HistoryCone BrothersJaquelyn Dowd HallLabor HistoryLibrariesLike A FamilyRural HistorySouthern Historical CollectionTextile HistoryWest End Clingman Avenue NeighborhoodWest HaywoodWestgate Bridge
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Tuesday, April 16, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Buncombe County History, Local History, Photograph Collection, Post Card Collection, Postcard Collection

Catawba Grapes and Scenic Views of Old Charlotte Highway in Cane Creek: 52 Weeks 52 Communities

It’s hard to say exactly where the Cane Creek community begins and ends. Maybe the area between the Limestone and Fairview fire districts? Is it a mile-wide corridor along the entire length of Cane Creek stretching plumb from South Asheville nearly to Gerton? It’s really hard to say, but however you want to describe the
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesCane CreekCatawba GrapesEphraim ClaytonFairviewFairview Community History ProjectFox GrapeGertonLambert ClaytonLimestoneOld Charlotte HWYRural CommunitiesRural HistorySouth AshevilleSpecial CollectionsTweed's ChapelUS 74-AVance Pollock
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Tuesday, April 09, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Buncombe County History, Local History, Manuscript Collection, Oral History, Photograph Collection, Women

Voices from Old Candlertown: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

The voices of our community members are one way we learn about our past. Eleanor Newcomb Rice knew this, and made it her work to collect the voices of “Old Candlertown” for many years. Rice was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1924, but when she was young, her parents moved her and her three older
AppalachiaArchivesCandlerCandlertownCommunityCommunity HistoryCultureEleanor Newcomb RiceEnkaHistoryHominy ValleyJugtownLibrariesManuscript CollectionMountainsMt.PisgahOral HistoryPhotographyRural HistorySpecial CollectionsstorytellingWomen
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Wednesday, April 03, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, African Americans, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Forgotten People, Local History

Working Together on Burton Street: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

“On the west side of Asheville between Patton and Haywood/A community holds on, tries to create a sustainable model, /Relationship-building between people/What can I say: Burton Street?” -DeWayne Barton “Burton Street Working Together” from 27 Views of Asheville, Eno Publishers, ed. We have discussed the Burton Street Community a few times this year, especially highlighting
African AmericansAshevilleBuffalo StreetBurton StreetCity of AshevilleCommunitiesCommunityCommunity HistoryDeWayne BartonE.W. PearsonEarly Asheville HistoryF.A. SondleyHood HuggersNorth CarolinaSchoolsStreetsUrban PlanningUrban RenewalWest Asheville
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