The Descendants of Captain Edmund Sams of Buncombe County, North Carolina

The Descendants of Captain Edmund Sams of Buncombe County, North Carolina (2010)

For more information on this book see: DJM Writer's Group.


Edmund Sams (1750-1845)

John Jarrett was for many years a resident of Buncombe County. In later life he lived on the western bank of the French Broad River, at the place where once the old Smith Bridge and now a concrete bridge at Asheville crosses. There had never been a bridge across that river near Asheville at that time, however. Many years before a ferry had been established at that point by Edmund Sams.

Life of Zebulon B. Vance by Clement Dowd (1897)

This book on the life of Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-1894) can be read online at:

Life of Zebulon Baird Vance

The book contains photographs of Vance we had not seen before.
_______________

See also: YesterYear Once More

Permalink

Branson's North Carolina Business Directory 1870 (Buncombe County)

Battery Park Hotel (Asheville, NC) 1910

(click on photograph for larger image)
_______________

Permalink

Swannanoa, North Carolina, Post Office 1935

(click on photograph for larger image)
_______________

Permalink

Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-1894) Marker

(click on photograph for larger image)
Inscription: In Honor of Zebulon Baird Vance, Confederate Soldier, War Governor U.S. Senator, Orator, Statesman. May 13, 1830 [Wreath and Flag Emblem] April 14, 1894. This tablet is placed by Asheville Chapter U.D.C. 1938. Location. 35° 35.702? N, 82° 33.089? W. Marker is in Asheville, North Carolina, in Buncombe County. Marker is on Biltmore Avenue (U.S. 25) near Patton Avenue (U.S. 74E), on the right when traveling north. Located at Pack Square. Marker is in this post office area: Asheville NC 28801, United States of America.

Asheville (North Carolina) Newspapers

The Asheville Citizen-Times is a Gannett newspaper based in Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.A.. It was formed on July 1, 1991 as a result of the merger of the morning Asheville Citizen and the afternoon Asheville Times.

Founded in 1870 as a weekly, the Citizen became a daily newspaper in 1885. Writers Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, both buried in Asheville, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, a common visitor to Asheville, frequently could be found in the newsroom in earlier days. In 1930 the Citizen came under common ownership with the Times, which was first established in 1896 as the Asheville Gazette. The latter paper merged with a short-lived rival, the Asheville Evening News, to form the Asheville Gazette-News and was renamed The Asheville Times by new owner Charles A. Webb.