Author of "Look Homeward Angel" (1929), "Of Time and the River," and other works. Home stands 200 yards N., birthplace 500 yds. N.E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and...
Established before 1793 as Union Hill Academy. Named for Rev. George Newton. Present Newton Academy School is 4th building on this site.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program,...
Organized by German Lutherans about 1825; Methodist since 1866. Is 2 1/2 miles south.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page here...
Civil War governor. He led state, 1862-65, and 1877-79; U.S. Senator, 1879-94. Colonel, 26th N.C. Regiment, 1861-62. Birthplace 6 miles N.E.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical...
Organized before 1792. Present building is here. First building stood 1 mile south.Plaque via North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, and is used with their permission. Full page here...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...