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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88C_thomas-wolfe-house-dixieland_Asheville-NC.html
Dixieland Asheville native Thomas Wolfe achieved international fame with the publication of his first full-length novel, Look Homeward, Angel, in 1929. Many of the incidents in the book took place in his mother's boardinghouse, "Old Kentucky Ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM87L_jeter-c-pritchard_Asheville-NC.html
United States Senator, 1895-1903.Republican leader, newspaperman, federal judge. His home is 3/10 mile east; grave is 1.3 mi. west.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM87K_lillian-exum-clement-stafford_Asheville-NC.html
First female legislator in the South. Elected to N.C. House, 1920. Her law office was 400 yds west; home 1/2 mi. NE.
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Author of "Look Homeward Angel" (1929)."Of Time and the River", and other works. Home stands 200 yards N., birthplace 500 yds. N.E.
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.
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