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Herbert Hyde, North Carolina Senate and North Carolina House of Representatives; Bill Jackson, Georgia State Senate and Georgia House of Representatives; Horace R. Kornegay, U.S. House of Representatives; Helen Morris Lewis, suffragist who was the first woman in North Carolina to seek elected office, Esther Manheimer, mayor of Asheville
Exterior of the headquarters, 2012. Founded in 1870 as a weekly, the North Carolina Citizen [4] became a daily newspaper in 1885. Writers Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, both buried in Asheville, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, a frequent visitor to Asheville, frequently could be found in the newsroom in earlier days.
WWNC is Asheville's oldest radio station, and among the oldest in North Carolina. It was first licensed, as WABC, on June 24, 1925, to the Asheville Battery Company at 19 Haywood Street. [ 2 ] As of June 30, 1926, the station was listed on 1180 kHz with a transmitter power of 20 watts.
Chappell's living family includes his wife of 65 years Susan, sister Becky Anderson of Asheville, and son Heath. Chappell asked that there be no obituary or funeral, something friends and family ...
William A. V. Cecil was the younger son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976) and English-born aristocrat John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954). He was the grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Lord William Cecil, the great-grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter.
In 1889 the Asheville Loan, Construction, and Improvement Company began to develop the neighborhood. The firm purchased and subdivided tracts of undeveloped land north of Battery Park and sold lots. The enterprise languished until it was taken over by George Willis Pack , a lumber tycoon from the midwest who moved to Asheville in 1885.
Biltmore Village, formerly Best, is a small village that is now entirely in the city limits of Asheville, North Carolina. [1] It is adjacent to the main entrance of the Biltmore Estate , built by George W. Vanderbilt , one of the heirs to the Vanderbilt family fortune.
Keeper Richard Etheridge (on left) and the Pea Island Life-Saving crew in front of their station, circa 1896 Emblem of the U.S. Life-Saving Service. Pea Island Life-Saving Station was a life-saving station on Pea Island, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.