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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U6D_flood-of-1916-historical_Asheville-NC.html
Devastated western N.C. and western Piedmont; destroyed homes, crops, mills, bridges. Four lives lost, July 16, near main gate of Biltmore Estate.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FGN_landsman-riley-powers_Asheville-NC.html
Early in 1861, Buncombe County farmer William Riley Powers joined the Rough and Ready Guards (Co. F, 14th North Carolina Infantry). The regiment was assigned to southeastern Virginia. There, Confederate Gen. Benjamin Huger discharged Pvts. Powers …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FGJ_private-george-avery_Asheville-NC.html
George Avery, a 19-year-old enslaved blacksmith, joined Co. D, 40th United States Colored Troops, in Greeneville, Tennessee, in 1865. According to local tradition, his master, Confederate Maj. William W. McDowell, sent Avery to enlist for a post-w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13PH_birthplace-of-american-forestry_Asheville-NC.html
George W. Vanderbilt, following the recommendation of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, was the first American landowner to implement scientific forestry, the management and conservation of forest lands, on a large scale. He hired Gifford…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13PG_frederick-law-olmsted_Asheville-NC.html
As work progressed on Biltmore Estate, his last and largest private project, Frederick Law Olmsted observed, "It is a great work of peace we are engaged in and one of these days we shall all be proud of our parts in it." It was Olmstead who sugges…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8A6_the-county-of-buncombe_Asheville-NC.html
Near and West of this spot at Gum SpringThe County of Buncombewas organized on April 16, 1792under act of the General Assembly of North CarolinaErected byThe National Society of the Colonial Dames Of AmericaIn the State of North Carolina1922
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88N_stonemans-raid_Asheville-NC.html
On a raid through western North Carolina Gen. Stoneman's U.S. Cavalry occupied Asheville on April 26, 1865.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM87I_biltmore-house_Asheville-NC.html
Designed for George W. Vanderbilt by Richard M. Hunt. Constructed, 1890-1895. Opened to public, 1930. Three miles west.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU9_rutherford-trace_Asheville-NC.html
The expedition led by Gen. Griffith Rutherford against the Cherokee, September, 1776, passed nearby on the banks of the Swannanoa River.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU7_newton-academy_Asheville-NC.html
Established before 1793 as Union Hill Academy. Named for George Newton. Later site of a public school. Building stood 200 feet east.