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A group of students from the East Flat Rock School in Henderson County attend the 31st Annual Buncombe County Negro District Fair, held at Oates Park, McDowell and Southside Streets. Spanish-American War veteran Edward W. Pearson founded the Buncombe County Negro District Fair in 1914. Pearson lived at 3 Buffalo St. in West Asheville and ran a grocery store and the Blue Note Music Club at that address. He created Pearson Park in West Asheville and organized the Asheville Royal Giants semi-pro baseball team. His son Edward W. Pearson, Jr. was manager of the fair in 1946. E.W. Pearson Sr. died that year, and the fair was not held again until the fall of 2010, when the first revival of the agricultural fair was held at the Burton Street Recreation Center in West Asheville.31st Annual Buncombe County Negro District Fair, 1946
“Suzy at the Chimes,” The Manor Inn on Charlotte Street, 1910
Market Street Branch of Asheville Libraries, circa 1945
Produce Stand of Benjamin J. Jackson, circa 1922
Wedding portrait of Ruth Jackson and John Earl (Johnnie) Cannon, circa 1934.
Stephens-Lee High School, circa 1952
Students in front of the former Circle Terrace Sanitorium, circa 1922
YMI Rugby Team, circa 1910
WWII Veterans Taking Radio Technicians Class, early 1950’s
YMCA Event at the Young Men’s Institute (YMI), circa 1955

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