Asheville and Buncombe County

  Stories from the Smith-McDowell House In 2021, this immersive exhibit was on display in recreated rooms throughout the 1840s Smith-McDowel...

  "Report of the North Carolina Comptroller of Public Accounts, for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1857." "Statement, E...

Thomas Gunn, Jr. (ca. 1738 VA - 1800 NC) , James B. Kerner (2007) Thomas 2 Gunn, Jr. (Thomas Gunn, Sr. 1 ) was born in or near Amelia Cou...

At Asheville [May 1835] In the following excerpt, Allen Turner Davidson 1 describes the events surrounding his trip as a sixteen-year-old...

"A Tale of Two Bridges: How the Smith-McDowell House is Tied to Spans of the French Broad River" by John Turk Smith's Brid...

Click to See Larger Image Samuel Davidson Place, Bee Tree, 1828 "In 1928, WNC Left Dr. William Blanding in Awe" by Rob Neufeld (As...

 The Buncombe Turnpike, the big commercial enterprise of antebellum Western North Carolina, arrives at a resort in Hickory Nut Gap, as depic...