History, News and Stories of Asheville, North Carolina, USA

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• 1785 - Asheville, North Carolina founded
  
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• 1854 - Asheville
  Asheville, a flourishingpost-village, capital of Buncombe county, North Carolina, is situated on the Buncombe turnpike, 1 1/ 2 miles E. from the... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1886 - December 4-6 - A great snowstorm hit the southern Appalachian Mountains. The three day storm 33 inches at Asheville NC.
  
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•   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 - Asheville / Ashville
  Asheville, or Ashville, ash'vil, a flourishing city and railroad centre, capital of Buncombe co., N.C., near French Broad River, and among the... 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.
  
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  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...
  
  
•   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...