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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FGG_smith-mcdowell-house_Asheville-NC.html
After John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859, new militia companies were formed in the South. Businessman William W. McDowell, whose wife acquired this house from her father's and brother's estates, raised a company called the Bunco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FG0_ashevilles-enslaved-people_Asheville-NC.html
When the war began, more than 15 percent of Buncombe County's residents were enslaved people. James Patton housed slaves behind his Eagle Hotel (straight ahead), where they worked as waiter, maids, grooms, cooks, and trail guides. Three blocks to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FFY_battery-porter_Asheville-NC.html
Near the end of the Civil War in 1865, Confederate Battery Porter was positioned uphill to your right on Stony Hill, at that time the highest point in Asheville. The battery included four 12-pounder field pieces known as Napoleons, a model 1857 ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CJX_richmond-pearson_Asheville-NC.html
Congressman, 1895-1901; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1902-1907, and to Greece and Montenegro, 1907-09. His home, "Richmond Hill," was ½ mile N.W.
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/HM140T_french-broad-river_Arden-NC.html
The French Broad River played a major role in this region's early development. Initially called the "Broad River" by eighteenth-century French hunters and traders, it was later named the French Broad River. With headwaters on Pisgah Ridge twenty m…
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…