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Tuesday, February 19, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Local History, Postcard Collection

Do you Remember the Bent Creek Ranch? : 52 Weeks 52 Communities

The Bent Creek Ranch was a hot vacation spot for equestrians from all over the country in the mid-twentieth century. The lodge and guest cabins provided a nice getaway from the hustle and bustle of modern life – a step back into “simpler times.” A postcard sent to a Nashville couple from the Bent Creek
AshevilleBent CreekBent Creek RanchBuncombe CountyCandlerCommunitiesHistoryhorseback ridinghorsesLocal HistoryPisgah National ForestPostcardsrecreationVintage AshevilleVintage Postcards
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Friday, October 09, 2015 / Published in Local History, Manuscript Collection, New Donations, Photograph Collection

Horses Crossing the French Broad River on a Ferry

Before there were bridges across the French Broad River, there were ferries. And then there were no bridges across the river, according to F.S. Sondley in A History of Buncombe County North Carolina, when in “1865 the Yankee invasion up the French Broad River burned the bridges at Alexanders and at what is now Craggy.
AshevilleferriesHorse ShowshorsesRiverside ParkWest Asheville
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Saturday, January 17, 2015 / Published in Buildings, Local History, Manuscript Collection, Photograph Collection

North Carolina Room and a Recent Donation Gets Media Coverage

The story goes like this: The North Carolina Room’s very own Friends of the North Carolina Room board member, Jon Elliston, published an article Thursday January 15th on Carolina Public Press about a 1904 photograph album that was sent to the NC Room by a woman in Albany, New York. She had found the album in a box of Albany
AshevilleBiltmore AvenueCarolina Public PresshorsesJohn KirtleyJohn LeJon EllistonLucy MenardSouth Main StreetSwannanoa Hoteltrolley carsWLOS
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Friday, January 17, 2014 / Published in Uncategorized

CONSIDER THE HORSE

The first time that I revisioned a different Asheville, one with horses, was when I read Pauline Moore’s diary she wrote in 1916 at the age of 19.  In May, Pauline wrote, “Frank Netherland & I went for a long horse back ride this afternoon.  Up by Beaumont Lodge by the Battle Bungalow through Kenilworth
All Souls Episcopal ChurchAshevilleBiltmore Dairy WagonBiltmore VillageC.C. Brown Livery BarnDella DayEthel SurrettFrank CoxeHorse-drawn Carriageshorseback ridinghorsesLivery StablesMrs. Leva WrightMrs. Mary HowlandO.D. RevellPauline BournePauline MooreTally-Ho

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