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New Year's Eve fireworks: Slopes close at 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 31 at the Appalachian Ski Mountain to prepare for torchlight show and fireworks celebration. Visit appskimtn.com for more information.
On January 19, 1922, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported that there were plans to build a resort around Beaverdam Creek. The Lake View Park Company 1,100 acres of land on both sides of the creek for development, with plans for an artificial lake, homes, hotels and a golf course. Additional land was purchased from the estate of Paul Roebling. [5]
In 1961, US 23 was removed from downtown Asheville and placed on the East–West Expressway, however continuing north on Merrimon Avenue. In 1966, it was placed on new freeway east, bypassing Weaverville; then, in 1973, it was removed from Merrimon Avenue onto freeway.
Beaucatcher Mountain is located in a portion of the Appalachian Mountain Range known as the Great Craggy Mountains, in Asheville, North Carolina.Its name was said to have been coined in the mid-1800s [2] by James W. Patton, who once teased his sister-in-law, Charlotte Kerry, after watching her stroll the mountainside with her "beau".
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Zealandia is an historic home located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina.It was built in 1908, and is a three-story, "T"-plan, Tudor Revival style dwelling. It features a three-story porte cochere, projecting masses, steep gables, heavy wrought iron entrance gates, and massive chimneys.
Interstate 240 (I-240), also known as the Billy Graham Freeway, is a 9.1-mile-long (14.6 km) Interstate Highway loop in the US state of North Carolina.It serves as an urban connector for Asheville and runs in a semicircle around the north of the city's downtown district between exits 53B and 46B of I-40.
The neighborhood has been a vibrant Black community since the 1880s, [2] although African American presence there dates back to the earliest times of slavery in western North Carolina. [2] The neighborhood flourished through the first half of the twentieth century, even as the practices of urban renewal began in the city in the 1950s. [ 2 ]