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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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Friday, May 09, 2014 / Published in Events, Local History, Manuscript Collection

Frenzied Finance

Perhaps you read our story a couple of weeks ago about Asheville Mayor Gallatin Roberts, who committed suicide in February 1931 rather than face trial for banking law violations. You may have wondered about the fate of the other defendants in the case. When a Buncombe County grand jury indicted Roberts, along with other public and
Bank FailureDepressionGallatin RobertsWallace B. Davis
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Friday, April 25, 2014 / Published in Events, Local History, Manuscript Collection, New Donations

A Stolen Suit and the Fickle Finger of Fate

With the recent donation of the Gallatin Roberts Collection, we received a magnificent story, as exciting and heart breaking as any Greek tragedy. Roberts was born under the shadow of a missing father and spent his entire life trying to be the trustworthy, upright man that he wished his father had been. At many of
Gallatin Roberts
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Friday, April 11, 2014 / Published in Events, Forgotten People, Local History, Manuscript Collection, New Donations, Woo-Woo Moments

Asheville and Baseball or Who the Sam Hill is Dan Hill?

A few weeks ago Dan Hill first made his presence known. His face smiled out of a 1922 photograph from the recently-donated Gallatin Roberts Collection. The men in the photograph were  identified by their signatures below their feet. I knew Gallatin Roberts, the sober man second from right. He was Mayor of Asheville in 1922 and again during
BaseballGallatin RobertsHerbert W. PeltonKenesaw Mountain LandisKiwanis ClubPiedmont Baseball LeagueSamuel Winfield Hill

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