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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM146P_wartime-jail_Asheville-NC.html
During the war, many large buildings such as schools, warehouses, and churches became temporary prisons in Southern cities. After Asheville's jail on Pack Square overflowed with Confederate draft evaders, deserters, Union prisoners of war, and run…
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/HM131U_hotel-district_Asheville-NC.html
An ornamental eagle perched high in front ofthe Eagle Hotel one block south. Irishimmigrant James Patton opened the hostelry in1814. Almost opposite the Eagle, theSwannanoa Hotel began operation in 1878,making South Main Street - now BiltmoreAvenu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12Z2_st-genevieve-of-the-pines_Asheville-NC.html
The Religious of Christian Education, anorder of nuns originally from France,established Hillside Convent School on January 6, 1908. In 1910, the school wasmoved to this site and renamed St. Genevieve~of~the~Pines. For eight decades, the school ed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12UI_lees-school_Asheville-NC.html
A school for boys, conducted by Stephen Lee, West Point graduate, Confederate colonel, stood 1/2 mile north.P-29 North Carolina Office of Archives and History (Replacing 1951) 2007
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12SH_olive-tilford-dargan_Asheville-NC.html
Writer of fiction and poetry. "Fielding Burke," her pen name. Author of Call Home the Heart and Highland Annals. Home, 1925-68, was 1/4 mile N.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12QS_william-moore_Asheville-NC.html
Captain of militia force which marched against the Cherokee in Nov., 1776. A fort which he built stood near here. His home was 200 yds. E.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12PP_locke-craig_Asheville-NC.html
Governor, 1913-1917. He created the state highway & fisheries commissions, est. Mt. Mitchell State Park. Lived 1/2 mi. W.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12EM_dr-l-b-mcbrayer_Asheville-NC.html
Leader in fight against tuberculosis in North Carolina, Superintendent of State Sanatorium in Hoke County, 1914-24. His birthplace is 400 ft. W.