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Black Mountain is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 8,426 at the 2020 United States census . [ 4 ] It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area .
[9] mountain paper birch, which is rare in North Carolina, grows sporadically on the slopes of Mount Mitchell. [10] Wildlife in the Black Mountains is typical of the Appalachian highlands. Mammals include black bears, white-tailed deer, raccoons, river otters, minks, bobcats, and the endangered northern flying squirrel.
Intheoaks, also known as In-the-oaks, is a historic estate and a national historic district located at Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.The district encompasses nine contributing buildings, two contributing sites, seven contributing structures, and four contributing objects associated with a country estate of the 1920s.
Black Mountain College was a private liberal arts college in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice , Theodore Dreier, and several others. The college was ideologically organized around John Dewey 's educational philosophy, which emphasized holistic learning and the study of art as central to a liberal arts ...
Black Mountain Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 56 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the central business district of Black Mountain.
Mount Mitchell (Attakulla in Cherokee) [3] is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in mainland North America east of the Mississippi River.It is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians about 19 miles (31 km) northeast of Asheville.
Black Mountain (Washington County, New York), a mountain; Black Mountain, North Carolina, a town near Asheville, North Carolina Black Mountain College (1933–1957), a school founded in 1933 in Black Mountain, North Carolina; Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, a group of mid-20th-century poets centered on Black Mountain ...
The Swannanoa River flows through the Swannanoa Valley of the region of Western North Carolina, and is a major tributary to the French Broad River.Its headwaters arise in Black Mountain, North Carolina; however, it also has a major tributary near its headwaters: Flat Creek, which begins on the slopes of Mount Mitchell.