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"Asheville, or Ashville, ash'vil, a flourishing city and railroad centre, capital of Buncombe co., N.C., near French Broad River, and among the mountains of the Blue Ridge, about 210 miles (direct) W. of Raleigh. It has 16 churches, 4 banks, a female college, a boys' high school, and manufactures of cotton, shoes, ice, tobacco, flour, &c. Two daily and 2 weekly newspapers are published here. Pop, in 1880, 2016; in 1890, 10,235."
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ...
Joseph Thomas
January 1, 1895
J.B. Lippincott
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- 1785 - Asheville, North Carolina founded
www.wikipedia.org - 1886 - December 4-6 - A great snowstorm hit the southern Appalachian Mountains. The three day storm 33 inches at Asheville NC.
The Weather Channel 
1888 - An epidemic of meningitis was on the 20th depopulating Asheville, N. C., at the rate of a dozen deaths a day,
all attempts to check it proving futile. Many inhabitants were leaving town.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
January 28, 1888- 1888 - George H. Vanderbilt, of New York, purchased one thousand acres of mountain lands near Asheville, N.C.,
where it was said on the 2d he would build a large industrial institute for the free education of poor white children, who would be taught how to...Read MORE... - 1895 - December 24 - George Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his "Biltmore House" estate, inviting his family to celebrate his new home in Asheville, North Carolina.
www.wikipedia.org
December 24, 1895 - 1909 - GUESTS FLED SCANTILY CLAD; FIRE BREAKS OUT IN THE FASHIONABLE KENILWORTH INN NEAR ASHEVILLE, N.C.
SEVENTY-FIVE GUESTS ALL ESCAPED.
MOST OF THEM LEFT BEHIND THEIR CLOTHES AND VALUABLES - MEN WORE PAJAMAS AND OVERCOATS WHILE SOME OF THE WOMEN...Read MORE... - 1916
Asheville, or Asnville, a city, capital of Buncombe co., N.C., situated at the junction of the Swananoa and the French Broad River, and among the...Read MORE... - 1917 - SCHOOL FIRE.
Asheville, N. C. - Five children are dead, three missing and eight are seriously injured as the result of a fire today which started in the furnace...Read MORE... 
Bon Marche Department Store
Battery Park Hotel, Asheville, N.C.
Airplane View of Biltmore Hotel, Asheville, N.C.- 1936 - THREE KILLED IN FIREWORKS BLAST. OTHERS BELIEVED DEAD AS CHARCOAL FIRE CAUSES EXPLOSION.
Asheville, N.C., Dec. 25. - An explosion in a downtown fireworks store tonight killed at least three persons and injured an undetermined...Read MORE... - 1938 - ASHEVILLE BLAST IS FATAL TO FIVE IN STONE QUARRY.
Asheville, Sept. 1 - (AP) - A terrific dynamite explosion that killed five men at a stone quarry here puzzled officials today.
The men,
WILLIAM...Read MORE...
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Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Bon Marche Department Store
Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Battery Park Hotel, Asheville, N.C.
Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Airplane View of Biltmore Hotel, Asheville, N.C.
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1785 - Asheville, North Carolina founded
www.wikipedia.org
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1886 - December 4-6 - A great snowstorm hit the southern Appalachian Mountains. The three day storm 33 inches at Asheville NC.
The Weather Channel
1888 - An epidemic of meningitis was on the 20th depopulating Asheville, N. C., at the rate of a dozen deaths a day,
all attempts to check it proving futile. Many inhabitants were leaving town. St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
January 28, 1888
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1888 - George H. Vanderbilt, of New York, purchased one thousand acres of mountain lands near Asheville, N.C.,
where it was said on the 2d he would build a large industrial institute for the free education of poor white children, who would be taught how to... Read MORE...
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1895 - December 24 - George Washington Vanderbilt II officially opens his "Biltmore House" estate, inviting his family to celebrate his new home in Asheville, North Carolina.
www.wikipedia.org
December 24, 1895
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1909 - GUESTS FLED SCANTILY CLAD; FIRE BREAKS OUT IN THE FASHIONABLE KENILWORTH INN NEAR ASHEVILLE, N.C.
SEVENTY-FIVE GUESTS ALL ESCAPED.
MOST OF THEM LEFT BEHIND THEIR CLOTHES AND VALUABLES - MEN WORE PAJAMAS AND OVERCOATS WHILE SOME OF THE WOMEN... Read MORE...
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1916
Asheville, or Asnville, a city, capital of Buncombe co., N.C., situated at the junction of the Swananoa and the French Broad River, and among the... Read MORE...
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1917 - SCHOOL FIRE.
Asheville, N. C. - Five children are dead, three missing and eight are seriously injured as the result of a fire today which started in the furnace... Read MORE...
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1936 - THREE KILLED IN FIREWORKS BLAST. OTHERS BELIEVED DEAD AS CHARCOAL FIRE CAUSES EXPLOSION.
Asheville, N.C., Dec. 25. - An explosion in a downtown fireworks store tonight killed at least three persons and injured an undetermined... Read MORE...
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1938 - ASHEVILLE BLAST IS FATAL TO FIVE IN STONE QUARRY.
Asheville, Sept. 1 - (AP) - A terrific dynamite explosion that killed five men at a stone quarry here puzzled officials today.
The men,
WILLIAM... Read MORE...
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