Biltmore Industries, Inc.

Biltmore Industries is associated with the lives, work, and ideals of Mr. and Mrs. George Vanderbilt and Fred L. Seely, all leading figures of twentieth-century Asheville. The industries were established in 1901 under the patronage of George Vanderbilt and direction ...

Richmond Hill House

The Richmond Hill House is located northwest of Asheville on a bluff high above the French Broad River. The Victorian mansion was built in 1889 as the private residence of ambassador and Congressman Richmond Pearson. Considered one of the most ...

Weaverville United Methodist Church

Methodism in the Reems Creek Valley of north central Buncombe County has a rich history dating to 1805 when pioneer John Weaver built a log Methodist meeting house on a ridge overlooking his cabin and farm. From 1919 to 1920, ...

Sherrill's Inn

Described in an 1895 travel guide called Mountain Scenery as having "a fine view" and being "a cool, pleasant place in summer," Sherrill's Inn was a way-station for stagecoach travelers and cattle drivers on the "Hickory Nut Turnpike," which connected ...

Blue Ridge Assembly Historic District

The Blue Ridge Assembly Historic District is nestled in a beautiful cove between two heavily forested ridges of the Swannanoa Mountains, a range of the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina. Blue Ridge Assembly was founded in 1912, due ...

Black Mountain College Historic District

The Black Mountain College Historic District, currently known as Camp Rockmont for Boys, is located three miles from Black Mountain. Six hundred acres, a portion of the original tract, is primarily meadowlands of the Great Craggy Mountains, which is divided ...

Hanscom Park Flower Garden

Land for Hanscom Park was donated in 1872 by Andrew J. Hanscom and James Megeath. Improvements including flower beds, lakes, cascades and fountains greatly changed the site’s rugged character. In time, the park was referred to as “one of the ...

Hanscom Park Lagoon

Hanscom Park, Omaha’s oldest remaining park, was designed by landscape architect H.W.S. Cleveland in 1889. Early improvements were described in the 1898 Park Commissioner’s Report: “Two lakes, a cascade, extensive flower beds, two and one-half miles of macadamized roadway, fountains ...

People, Places, and Stories

The joint efforts of many individuals and groups – among them military men and scientists, a president and an enslaved man, French-speaking boatmen and American Indians, women and men – determined the fate of the Corps of Discovery. Today, more ...

Wabash College Students who Served in the Civil War

~? ~? ~ ~ Roll of Honor ~ ~? ~?

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Lewis Wallace ? Edward R. S. Canby ? Joseph J. Reynolds

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John C. ...