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Saturday, July 20, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Architecture, Asheville History, Buildings, Buncombe County History, Houses, Local History, Manuscript Collection

A Model Letter from a Model Village, Grovemont on Swannanoa: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

Edwin Wiley Grove had a grand vision. After striking it rich in the patent medicine business he began to invest in real estate, a hot market in the Southern United States throughout the 1880s and into the 1920s. Grove purchased property in a number of major cities, including Atlanta. And although his famous tasteless chill
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesAlexanderBattery HillBattery ParkBattery Park HotelBuncombe CountyE.W. GroveEdwin Wiley GroveGeorge MasaGrove Park InnGrove's Tasteless Chill TonicGrovestone QuarryHomesPatent MedicinesPlanned CommunitiesReal EstateSt. Margaret Mary Catholic ChurchSwannanoaSwannanoa Branch Library
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Saturday, July 13, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Asheville History, Buncombe County History

Perspectives on Grace: 52 Weeks 52 Communities

For this week’s edition of 52 Weeks, 52 Communities we’re reaching back into the HeardTell archives for two posts about Grace, a community in North Asheville. These posts were originally authored by NC Room Staff Zoe Rhine and Ione Whitlock. Grace, A Community that got absorbed by an avenue A View of Grace, Then and
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesAppalachiaBuncombe CountyGraceMerrimon AveNorth AshevillePerspectives
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, African Americans, Buildings, Buncombe County History, Forgotten People, Local History, Photograph Collection

“We found all in Fellowship” at Flat Creek: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

One of the resources hiding away in the North Carolina Room reference stacks are various church histories and minutes. Most of the time, these valuable records sit around on the shelf and do not see much use. If you think about it, it’s easy to understand why. On the surface, it may not seem like
AlexanderAppalachiaBaptismBaptistsBig IvyBull CreekBuncombe CountyCemeteriesChurch MinutesCivil WarDancingDeaconsDillinghamenslaved peopleFiddleFiddle MusicFlat CreekFlat Creek Baptist ChurchFlat Creek TownshipGallatin RobertsGeneaologyGentryIndependent BaptistsKnow Nothing PartyMars Hill CollegeMars Hill UniversityMary Althea SamsMissionary BaptistsMorganNewfoundNorma Dillingham MorganObituariesOld Mars Hill HighwayPastorsPine CreekPolityReems Creek Presbyterian ChurchRev. Stephen MorganRoan MountainRural ReligionsSamsSandy MushSlavesWeaverWeavervilleZebulon Vance
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Saturday, June 15, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Buncombe County History, Local History, North Carolina Room Staff

Farming Family connections in Fairview: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

One of my earliest childhood memories is in a big, old house full of people gathered for Christmas dinner. In a dining room with a large table and wood floors, the chandelier lit with candles dripped down onto the table. At just five years old or so, it was a method of lighting I had
A.C Reynolds High SchoolAgeragricultureAnnie AgerBearwallowBearwallow MountainBradleyBuncombe CountyChirstmasCommunity Based ArchivesElspeth ClarkeFairviewFarmer's FederationGarren CreekHickory Nut GapHickory Nut Gap FarmJamie ClarkeJohn AgerLittle PisgahMcClureNational Register of Historic PlacesOld Brevard RoadOral HistoryRural HistorySettlesSherrill's InnThe Lords AcreUS 74We Plow Gods Fields
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Saturday, June 08, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Local History, New Donations, Postcard Collection, Women

Welkom Bij Het Dorp Enka! 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

In the late 1920’s a group of Asheville investors, boosters, and executives (including Fred Seely, son in law of the late E.W Grove) hatched a plan to lure one of the world’s most progressive burgeoning industries to western North Carolina. Established in the early 1920s after the discovery of the scientific process for creating “artificial
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesAkzo NobelAkzonaAmerican EnkaAppalachiaArchiveArnhemAustriaBASFBuncombe CountyDutchE.W. GroveEdeEnkaEnka VillageFemale LaborFred SeelyGermanyHollandIndustrialismLike A FamilyLocal HistoryManufacturingModernismPaternalismPostcardRayonScienceTextilesThe NetherlandsTransportation
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Thursday, June 06, 2019 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Local History

“A Tribute to the Stephens-Lee High School” is Now on Video

“A Tribute to the Stephens-Lee High School” as presented by the North Carolina Room on April 9, 2019 at the Stephens-Lee Center is now on video! Here’s a call out to black Asheville. here’s the goal: LET’S DOCUMENT EVERY FACULTY MEMBER WHO EVER TAUGHT AT STEPHENS-LEE! What better way to honor these people who gave
Education of blacks in AshevilleJr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe CountyMartin Luther KingSegregationStephens-Lee Alumni AssociationStephens-Lee High School
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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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