Asheville and Buncombe County: January 2021

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

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Samuel Davidson Place, Bee Tree, 1828

"In 1928, WNC Left Dr. William Blanding in Awe" by Rob Neufeld (Ashville Citizen-Times, 4 January 2021).

Buncome County Bibliography

A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina, Catherine W. Bisshir, Michael T. Southern, Jennifer F. Martin (1999)
A History of Buncombe County, North Carolina, F. A. Sondley (1930)
A Pictorial History of Buncombe County, Asheville Citizen Times (1993)
A Spire in the Mountain, Ora Blackmun (1970)
Abstracted Wills of Buncombe County, North Carolina 1831-1872, Frances Terry Ingmire, Compiler (1984)
Around Biltmore Village, Bill Alexander (2008)
Asheville and Buncombe County, F. A. Sondley (1922)
Asheville Impressions, Bob Schatz (2008)
Asheville Mountain Majesty, Lou Harshaw (2007)
Asheville's River Arts District, Bob Neufeld and Henry Neufeld (2008)
Asheville: A History, Nan K. Chase (2007)
Asheville: A Pictorial History, Mitzi Schaden Tessier (1982)
Asheville: A Postcard History, Volume I, Sue Greenberg and Jan Kahn (1997)
Asheville: A Postcard History, Volume II, Sue Greenberg and Jan Kahn (1997)
Asheville: Land of the Sky, Milton Ready (1986)
Biographical History of North Carolina: From Colonial times to the Present, Samuel A. Ashe, Stephen B. Weeks, Charles L. Van Noppen, Editors, Volume VII (1908)
Black Mountain and the Swannanoa Valley, Swannanoa Valley Museum (2004)
Buncombe Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds, Julian M. Pleasants (2000)
Cabins & Castles: The History & Architecture of Buncombe County, North Carolina, Douglas Swaim (1981)
Chronology of North Carolina, D. K. Bennett (1858) [containing sketches of Buncombe County men]
Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas of the Nineteenth Century, Volume II, Edward Mc Crady, Samuel A’Court Ashe (1892)
Early Tourism in Western North Carolina, Stephen C. Compton (2004)
Family and Descendents of William Wallace McDowell & Sarah Lucinda Smith McDowell, Frances Arthur McDowell, Compiler and Editor (undated but after 1997)
Family History of Western North Carolina, Joyce Justus Parris (1998)
Fashionable Asheville, Volumes I and II, David Coleman Bailey (2004)
Genesis of Buncombe County, Theodore F. Davidson (1922)
Historic Asheville, Bob Terrell (1997)
In Buncombe County, Maria Louise Pool (1986)
Look Homeward Asheville, Peter Olevnik (2008)
Marriage and Death Notices from Extant Asheville, N.C. Newspapers 1840-1870, An Index Robert M. Topkins, Compiler and Editor (1977)
Remembering Asheville: An Illustrated History, Milton Ready (2005)
Reminiscences of Western North Carolina, Colonel Allen T. Davidson. Published in The Lycemu, a monthly Asheville newspaper that had a short life (May 1890 until some time in 1892)
Sketches of North Carolina, Reverend William Henry Foote (1846)
The French Broad, Wilma Dykeman (1955)
The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War, John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney (2000)
The History of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, North Carolina, Joyce Justus Parris (1996)
The Smith-McDowell House: A History, Dr. Richard W. Iobst (undated, but after 1998)
The Standard Guide to Asheville and Western North Carolina, Published by Fred L. Jacobs, Asheville, N.C. (1887)
These Storied Mountains, John Parris (1972)
Thomas Wolfe of North Carolina, H. G. Jones, Editor (1982)
Trolleys in the Land of the Sky: Street Railways of Asheville, N. C. and Vicinity, David C. Bailey, Joseph M. Canfield, Harold E. Cox (2000)
Western North Carolina: A History from 1730-1913, John Preston Arthur (1914)
Western North Carolina: A Visual Journey Through Stereo Views and Photographs, Stephen E. Massengill (1999)
Western North Carolina: Its Mountains and Its People to 1880, Ora Blackmun (1977)