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Tuesday, March 08, 2022 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Community Member Posts, Forgotten People

Occupations of Black Women in Asheville, 1890 Part IV: Nurses

Over the next several weeks Buncombe County Special Collections will share five different posts by former Special Collections (NC Room) Librarian Zoe Rhine. Since “retiring” in January 2020, Zoe has continued to follow her research interests; investigating the lives of African Americans in the late 19th century. Do you have research or stories about Asheville
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Tuesday, March 01, 2022 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Community Member Posts, Forgotten People

Occupations of Black Women in Asheville, 1890 Part III: Laundresses

Over the next several weeks Buncombe County Special Collections will share five different posts by former Special Collections (NC Room) Librarian Zoe Rhine. Since “retiring” in January 2020, Zoe has continued to follow her research interests; investigating the lives of African Americans in the late 19th century. Do you have research or stories about Asheville
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Community Member Posts, Forgotten People, Local History, Women

Occupations of Black Women in Asheville, 1890 Part II: Cooks

Over the next several weeks Buncombe County Special Collections will share five different posts by former Special Collections (NC Room) Librarian Zoe Rhine. Since “retiring” in January 2020, Zoe has continued to follow her research interests; investigating the lives of African Americans in the late 19th century. Do you have research or stories about Asheville
AshevilleAsheville LibraryLibrariesWomen
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Monday, February 14, 2022 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Community Member Posts, Forgotten People, Local History, Women

Occupations of Black Women in Asheville, 1890: An Introduction

Over the next several weeks Buncombe County Special Collections will share five different posts by former Special Collections (NC Room) Librarian Zoe Rhine. Since “retiring” in January 2020, Zoe has continued to follow her research interests; investigating the lives of African Americans in the late 19th century. Do you have research or stories about Asheville
AshevilleAsheville LibraryLibrariesWomen
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Tuesday, July 07, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Education, Local History, Photograph Collection

New Research Reveals New Information:

Asheville’s First Public Schools For Blacks For more than a year, I have collected every newspaper article on the Beaumont Academy, Beaumont School and the Mountain Street School, in my quest to gather information on the first public schools for blacks in Asheville. But something puzzled me – where was the original location of the
Asheville School CommitteeBeaumont AcademyBeaumont SchoolBlack AshevilleBlack EducationBlack Elementary EducationBlack HistoryBlack SchoolsMountain Street School
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Monday, May 18, 2020 / Published in Asheville History, Buildings, Buncombe County History, Friends of the NC Room, Quirks & Kerfuffles

Canned Victuals

What’s in your pantry these days? I freely admit to having more canned food in my pantry than ever before. (I’m fond of canned, fishy things such as sardines, anchovies, salmon, and good tuna; canned tomatoes in a variety of forms. Not so fond of canned tomato juice; I prefer it in a plastic jug.
agricultureAppalachiacanned foodsFarmer's FederationfarmsFoodfood packingHickory Nut Gap FarmMountain Grownnostalgiatomatoes
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Thursday, March 26, 2020 / Published in Architecture, Asheville History, Buildings, Buncombe County History, Forgotten People

866 Hendersonville Road

How often have you driven on Hendersonville Road and wondered what this or that site used to look like before twenty-first century development? Let’s look at one address: 866 Hendersonville Road. This is what you see today. 866 Hendersonville Road was originally owned by Frank Mears. In 1945 Reginald O. Dodd purchased the stone building.
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Thursday, March 05, 2020 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Education, Local History

A Most Exceptional Man: The Edward S. Stephens Story (Part Two)

In Part One we focused on Stephens’s work as a principal and teacher in the Asheville City Schools and as the organizer and first general secretary of the Young Men’s Institute (YMI).  In this new post, we’ll look at the events that led to Stephens’s departure from Asheville and the work he and his wife
African American EducationAsheville Free KindergartenAsheville School CommitteeBlack EducationBlack TeachersCatholic Hill SchoolCharles McNameeEdward S. StephensIndustrial and Educational Institute of TopeksInstitute for Colored YouthIzie RiddickKansasStephens-Lee High SchoolTopekaTopeka Industrial InstituteW. W. WestYMI
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Tuesday, February 25, 2020 / Published in Architecture, Asheville History, Buildings, Buncombe County History, Forgotten People, Houses

Correcting the Record.

A few months ago some questions arose about a couple photographs in the North Carolina Room’s Special Collection. They show a group of African-American masons erecting a wall up against a building with a large “Drink Pepsi-Cola” sign painted on it. Zoe asked me if I could confirm the details in the description. Here’s part
BuildingJames Vester MillerManufacturingNeighborhoodsPepsiSanborn MapsSouthsideSouthside AveUNC Asheville
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