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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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Monday, November 28, 2016 / Published in Books, Local History, Photograph Collection

What’s in a Name?

Sometimes, everyone while driving down a street–like Haywood, Charlotte, Merrimon or Patton Avenue, names so common–stops and wonders about the name. “I wonder who Charlotte Street was named for? And sometimes, there are streets that wondering where the name came from is the last thing in the world anyone would think about. Like Page Avenue.
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