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Saturday, September 21, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Architectural Drawing Collection, Architecture, Asheville History, Books, Buncombe County History, Historic Montford, Houses, Manuscript Collection

A Montford Bibliography: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

Montford is one of Buncombe County’s most iconic historic neighborhoods. In this installment of 52 Weeks, 52 Communities, we could take almost any angle on Montford; there is just so much to talk about. So instead of trying to pick just one thesis, I decided that this would be a great opportunity to put together
52 Weeks 52 CommunitiesAppalachiaAshevilleBibliographyBuncombe CountyCollectionsHistoric MontfordMontfordMontford ParkMontford Park PlayersMurder in MontfordPreservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe CountyRichard Sharp SmithSubdivisions
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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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Monday, October 02, 2017 / Published in African Americans, Forgotten People, Historic Montford, Local History, Photograph Collection

Tempie Avery and the Montford Community Center

Tempie Avery was a young girl purchased in Charleston in 1840 by Nicholas Woodfin. During her time on his plantation she became a midwife delivering both black and white babies in Asheville. After the Civil War, Mr. Woodfin deeded property to Tempie at 26 Pearson Drive, the current site of the Montford Community Center. On
Asheville HistoryBuncombe CountyMonford Community CenterPauline MooreStumptownTempie Avery
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Friday, July 21, 2017 / Published in Exhibits, Historic Montford, Local History, Photograph Collection

“On the Front Porch” –A New Photograph Exhibit at Pack Memorial Library

“On The Front Porch” A porch is a passage into a home. It’s where we comfortably pause before entering as well as when leaving. Porches link the private interior with the outdoors, the public sidewalk and street. Porches are where we rest, are silent, or talk quietly with family or friends. We sometimes gather on porches
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Saturday, March 04, 2017 / Published in Historic Montford, Houses, Local History, Photograph Collection

Discovering Montford’s Early History Part 5: “What Got Done!”

It is common for local historians to say of the Asheville, Loan, Construction & Improvement Company, that the “enterprise languished until it was taken over by George Willis Pack.” (Quote from Asheville’s Historic Montford District, edited by Michael T. Southern, 1985.) What the Asheville, Loan, Construction & Improvement Company did do needs to be on record. After the company
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Monday, February 06, 2017 / Published in Historic Montford, Local History, Photograph Collection

Discovering Montford’s Early History Part 4: “A Rustling Company” Develops a Streetcar Suburb

Asheville was the first city in North Carolina to have an electric streetcar system, with the first run on February 1, 1889. Asheville was followed by Winston, Charlotte, Raleigh and then Wilmington (1890-1892). Montford was likely the first electric streetcar suburb in the state. Streetcar suburbs, defined as a planned community built around a street
AshevilleAsheville HistoryAsheville LoanBuncombe CountyConstruction and Improvement CompanyMontfordStreetcar Suburb
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 / Published in Architecture, Historic Montford, Houses, Local History, Photograph Collection

Discovering Montford’s Early History Part 3: Where the Name Montford Came From

We now know that Richmond Pearson named the new station Montford Park Station. Why the Name Montford? An article in the Daily Citizen of March 31, 1891, titled “Montford Park Station: Asheville’s New Suburb on the French Broad” reveals that “for the privilege of naming the station, Mr. Richmond Pearson, last summer, agreed to erect
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Monday, January 23, 2017 / Published in Historic Montford, Local History, Photograph Collection

Rediscovering Montford’s Early History Part 2: Mr. Pearson’s Fourth of July 1890 Celebration and Montford

Richmond Pearson’s Little-Known Part in the Creation of Montford [Click here to read Rediscovering Montford’s Early History Part 1 post revealing the first newspaper article announcing the creation of Montford Park and the naming of Montford Park Station.] Richmond Pearson was given the honor in the summer of 1890 of naming the new passenger depot on the Asheville Loan, Construction
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017 / Published in Historic Montford, Local History, Post Card Collection

Discovering Montford’s Early History, Part 1

A couple of years ago I set out to see if I could find the origins of the name Montford. I pretty much figured I was in for a long haul. Many people have pondered the question: who named it and why was it named Montford? In 1976 when Montford was getting a lot of deserved
AshevilleAsheville HistoryBuncombe CountyMontfordMontford ParkMontford Park StationRichmond Pearson
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