ANDRE MICHAUX
French botanist, pioneer in studying flora of western North Carolina, visited Black Mountains, August, 1794.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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LOCKE CRAIG
1860-1924 Governor, 1913-1917. He created the state highway & fisheries commissions, est. Mt. Mitchell State Park. Lived 1/2 mi. W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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HOT SPRINGS
Health resort since 1800. Name changed from Warm Springs, 1886. Internment camp for Germans in World War I was here.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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VANCE-CARSON DUEL
On Nov. 5, 1827, Robert B. Vance, former N.C. Congressman, was fatally wounded in a duel by Samuel P. Carson, his successor. 1/2 mile S.E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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FELIX WALKER
Revolutionary officer, member Congress, 1817-23, where, in "talking for Buncombe" (County), he gave new meaning to the word. Home was 1/2 mi. N.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
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PAINT ROCK
Pictographs on cliff face were created by Indians ca. 2500 B.C. & long have been landmark for travelers. 5 1/2 mi. N.W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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GUN SHOP AND FORGE
Iron works set up four mi. W. by Philip Sitton after 1804. Source for manufacture of rifles by Philip Gillespie. Both operated to 1860s.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program,...
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LEE'S SCHOOL 1846-1879
A school for boys, conducted by Stephen Lee, West Point graduate, Confederate colonel, stood 1/2 mile north.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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RIVERSIDE CEMETERY
Graves of Thomas Wolfe & "O. Henry," authors; Zebulon B. Vance, governor; Thomas L. Clingman and Robert R. Reynolds, U.S. senators. One-half mile W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway...
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FORSTER A. SONDLEY 1857-1931
Historian, lawyer, and bibliophile. Gave to Asheville the Sondley Reference Library. His home is 2.7 mi. north.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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ST. JOHN IN THE WILDERNESS
Episcopal Church, built 1833-34 as a private chapel. Given to Diocese of North Carolina, 1836. Enlarged in 1852.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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JETER C. PRITCHARD
United States Senator, 1895-1903, Republican leader, newspaperman, federal judge. His home is 3/10 mile east; grave is 1.3 mi. west.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
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FRANCIS ASBURY
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1784-1816, often visited and preached at the home of Daniel Killian which was one mile east.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program,...
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MARS HILL COLLEGE
Baptist; coeducational. Founded 1856 as French Broad Baptist Institute. Name changed 1859. Senior college since 1962.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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DR. L. B. McBRAYER
Leader in fight against tuberculosis in North Carolina, Superintendent of State Sanatorium in Hoke County, 1914-24. His birthplace is 400 ft. W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker...
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RICHMOND PEARSON 1852-1923
Congressman, 1895-1901; U.S. Minister to Persia, 1902-07, and to Greece and Montenegro, 1907-09. His home, "Richmond Hill," was 1/2 mile N.W.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
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RUTHERFORD TRACE
The expedition led by Gen. Griffith Rutherford against the Cherokee, September, 1776, passed nearby on the banks of the Swannanoa River.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program,...
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RUTHERFORD TRACE
The expedition led by Gen. Griffith Rutherford against the Cherokee, Sept., 1776, passed nearby.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full...
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RUTHERFORD TRACE
The expedition led by Gen. Griffith Rutherford against the Cherokee, Sept., 1776, camped nearby along Hominy Creek.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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C. G. MEMMINGER
Secretary of the treasury of the Confederacy, from Charleston. Native of Germany. Summer home and grave nearby.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with...
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