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ASHEVILLH AND VICINITY, 
 
 A HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 An Exhaustive History of Asheville, 
 
 ALSO 
 
 ACCOUNTS AND STATISTICS OF CHUECHES, PUBLIC AND 
 
 PRIVATE SCHOOLS, BENEVOLENT, SECRET, AND OTHER 
 
 SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIOINS, BESIDES OTHER 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
 
 J. D. EGGLESTON and J. S. McILWAlNE, 
 
 COMPILERS AND PUBLISHERS. 
 
 I 'LU l3i!3J7 i , 
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1896, by J. D. EGGLESTON and J. S. McIlwaine, 
 at Washington, D. C, in the office of the Librarian of Congress. 
 
 atlanta, ga.: 
 Franklin Printing and Publishing Company 
 Geo. W. Harrison, State Printer. 
 1897. 
 

 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The many inquiries fur a Handbook of Asheville is the reason 
 for the existence of this volume. 
 
 It is the purpose of the publishers to issue a work of this kind 
 at intervals sufficiently near to keep in touch with all changes and 
 improvements in the city. 
 
 It is hoped that it will meet with the demand so frequently 
 made for a work both accurate and attractive. 
 
 J. I). Eggleston, 
 J. S. McIlwaine, 
 
 Publishers. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 A ssessed Wealth 'I' 
 
 Banks '' 
 
 Blocks and Buildings ' 
 
 Boardinor Houses 
 
 2 
 
 Cemetery 
 
 Charitable Institutions 
 
 ^,, , 62 
 
 Churches 
 
 City Government 
 
 Clubs -— '^*' 
 
 Coal Companies ^'^ 
 
 Corporate Limits and Ward Boundaries '^"^ 
 
 County Officers '-* 
 
 Court Calendar "-- 
 
 o9 
 Fire Department 
 
 History and Vicinity '^ 
 
 Index to Advertisers "^ 
 
 54 
 Indebtedness 
 
 Infirmaries and Hospitals 
 
 J y . 38 
 
 J udiciary 
 
 T ., _- 65 
 
 Library 
 
 Local Charities 
 
 Military " 
 
 00 
 
 Miscellaneous and Statistical ^^ 
 
 Newspapers 
 
 Notaries Public ^^^ 
 
 . r 69 
 
 Points of Interest--- '^ 
 
 57 
 Police Department 
 
 . 30 
 
 Population ' 
 
 57 
 Post-Office Department 
 
 Post-Offices of North Carolina '^^ 
 
 Private Schools 
 
 Public Schools '^^ 
 
 S3 
 Railroads '' 
 
 51 
 Rates and Distances 
 
 Societies 
 
 3S 
 State Officers 
 
 Street Lighting 
 
 Superior Courts 
 
 ^ 52 
 
 Supreme Court 
 
 U. S, District and Circuit Courts '^^ 
 
 U. S. Government 
 
 Y. M. C. A ^^ 
 
O 
 
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ASHEVILLE AND VICINITY. 
 
 (prof. J. J). eg(;le8TOX.) 
 
 f" It is a noble region, in which Nature has uplifted her niighty 
 monuments, and with a setting of rare loveliness. J 
 
 SCENE ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 
 
 [For assistance in compiling this sketch the writer is deeply indebted 
 to the very valuable articles in the Woman's Edition of The Citizen, 
 November, 1895, by Misses Fannie L. Patton, AnnaC. Aston, and others; 
 to D. K. Bennett's Chronology of North Carolina; to " Asheville, 
 Where It Is," etc., and to various other articles, pamphlets, and friends.] 
 
 Buncombe county, named in honor of Colonel Edward Buncombe, of 
 Hevolutionary fame, was set off by act of the General Assembly as a 
 separate county in 1791. The "Old State of Buncombe," as it was 
 known for years, then included the present county of the name, with 
 Haywood (cut off in 1808), Macon (1828), Yancey (in part 1833), 
 Henderson (1838), Cherokee (1839), Madison (1850), Clay, Swain, 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Graham, and part of TraDsylvauia. In 1795 the boundary line between 
 Buncombe and Tennessee was made. Kobert Henry, who was the 
 teacher of the first school in Buncombe, was one of the surveyors. The 
 present area of the county is about 400 square miles. 
 
 Well-founded tradition relates that the location of the county seat of 
 Buncoml)e was at first a difiicult question to decide, the present site being 
 finally chosen on account of the " royal" treatment given the authorities 
 by a saloon-keeper, whose establishment was located on what is now South 
 
 _,_ _„«,-,....,.»^..„.,«^..,._^, Main, near the city limits. 
 
 ^ The county seat was created 
 I ; > in 1794, and was given the 
 
 name of Morris, which was 
 the next year changed to 
 Morristowu, and shortly 
 afterwards to Asheville, in 
 honor of Governor Samuel 
 Ashe, of Revolutionary 
 fame, who in 1795 was 
 elected Governor of the 
 State. 
 
 The first county court is 
 said to have been held at 
 the house of William David- 
 i son at the Gum Spring, now 
 I on the Vanderbilt estate, 
 I David Vance being the first 
 ' clerk of the court. 
 
 Of the early settlers of 
 Asheville and vicinity only 
 brief mention can be made 
 of some. William Mills, 
 born on James River, Vir- 
 ginia, emigrated to the Block 
 House on the Catawba, then 
 Mills' Gap, said to be the first wagon road 
 
 ["There are, here and there, stu)iendous precipice's, as, for 
 inistance,' Whiteside ' and 'Caebar's Head.' "] 
 
 SCENE ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 
 
 to Green River in 1766. 
 
 across the Blue ridge, and Mills' river were named for him. He is said 
 to have named Bearwallow, Ball Top, Sugar Loaf, Lookout, and many 
 other adjacent mountains. 
 
 Many thrilling adventures are related of him in connection with the 
 Indians, as also of Colonel Daniel Smith, who settled at the mouth of 
 the Swannanoa in 1785. Smith is said to have killed more than one 
 hundred Indians. His son, James McC. Smith, was the first white child 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 7 
 
 born west of the Blue Kulge in the limits of North Carolina. James 
 Smith married a daughter of Colonel John Patton, settled at Asheville, 
 and merchandised and f\irmed until his death in 1856. John Patton, 
 father of Mont raville Patton, settled in 1790, making his first clearing on 
 the Swannanoa, near " Patton's Mills." He was the first county surveyor 
 of Buncombe, and held the position for many years. 
 
 Zebulon Baird, the grandfather of General R. B. and Senator Z. B. 
 Vance, came to the county in 1793, with Beadon Baird, in the first four- 
 wheeled wagon ever seen in the county. He built the first store house, 
 court-houserand jail on the present site of Asheville, and represented 
 Buncombe county in both branches of the Legislature. The Messrs. Baird 
 engaged in merchandising, and imported the first '^jewsharps" to the 
 county, and these became dangerous rivals to the gourd fiddles and corn- 
 stalk bows then in vogue. 
 
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 James Patton, born in County Derry, Ireland, in 1756, came to Amer- 
 ica in 1788, to Buncombe in 1792, and to Asheville in 1811, where he 
 built the first frame house erected in the place, at the corner of South 
 Main and Eagle streets. The house was afterwards enlarged and became 
 the once famous Eagle Hotel. Mr. Patton was a man of great industry, 
 thrift, and probity, and accumulated a large fortune. In 1791 he en- 
 tered into a partnership with Andrew Erwin, and after twenty years 
 of partnership they are said to have dissolved and made settlement of 
 a large estate in one day ! 
 
 The fir.t wagon road through the western section was constructed in 
 1790. It crossed the gap at the present long tunnel of the Southern 
 Railway, came down the valley to where Biltmore is now situated, thence 
 through what are now Valley, Oak, and Charlotte streets, out by Deake's 
 Greenhouse, where it struck across to the Beaver Dam road, thence to 
 Reems creek down the French Broad. 
 
 In 1800 a turnpike road was chartered to run from Paint Rock to Green- 
 
8 ASHEVILLE AND VjCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 ville, S. C, by Saluda Gap. This was completed in 1828 and became 
 a great thoroughfare. About 1805 a post route was established on the 
 recently constructed road through Buncombe, and the post-office at Ashe- 
 ville, in 1806 was made the distributing office for Georgia, Tennessee, 
 and the two Carolinas. George Swain, who came to Asheville in the 
 winter of 1795-6 from Georgia, took charge of the office in the autumn 
 of 1806, his commission, however, bearing date January 1, 1807. He 
 was the second postmaster of Asheville, and it is said that during a pe- 
 riod of twenty years he was never absent on the arrival of a mail, and 
 that every letter was distributed with his own hand. He was the father 
 of David L. Swain, who was born on Beaver Dam in 1801, and was 
 prepared for college at Newton Academy. David Swain was the first 
 boy west of the Ridge to enter the State University, where he remained 
 only three weeks, on account of lack of funds He read law under 
 Chief Justice Taylor, of North Carolina; represented Buncombe county 
 in 1824-5-6 ; was Solicitor of Edenton Circuit in 1827 ; returned to the 
 House in 1828-9; Avas Judge of the Supreme Court in 1831-2; was 
 Governor in 1833-4-5; and was President of the State University for 
 more than twenty-five years. He was also a member of the Board of 
 Public Improvements, and is justly classed as one of the greatest and 
 ablest of North Carolina's sons. 
 
 Colonel Andrew Erwin, who has been mentioned in connection with 
 James Patton, came to Asheville in 1803, and succeeded to the business 
 of Jeremiah Cleveland, merchant and innkeeper. At this time Asheville 
 consisted of less than a dozen log houses. D. K. Bennett, in his Chro- 
 nology of North Carolina, published in 1858, says of Colonel Erwin : 
 "He was a man of extraordinary energy and enterprise, and great 
 strength of mind," and " may be justly considered the incipient founder 
 of Asheville. . . . He was the first postmaster, and throughout the 
 entire period of his citizenship foremost in every effort for the improve- 
 ment of the town and county." 
 
 The Rev. George Newton, the first Presbyterian minister who settled 
 on the west side of the Blue Ridge, is believed to have been the founder 
 and first pastor of the three churches of Swannanoa, Asheville and Reems 
 Creek, previous to 1797. In the early part of 1797 he moved to the 
 spot about one mile south of Asheville, now on the road to Biltmore, where 
 a frame building was erected for him. A short distance south of this a 
 log house, known as Union Academy, stood, from 1797 to about 1809. 
 This was demolished, and in the autumn of 1810 a brick building took 
 its place. By act of the General Assembly the name of the school was 
 changed to Newton Academy, and here Mr. Newton taught a classical 
 school from 1797 to 1814. The school was a famous one throughout the 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViClNlTY A HANDBOOK, 9 
 
 western section. Lack of space forbids an extended mention of Rev. 
 Samuel Edney, a consecrated man of God, who, with Jonathan Bird, 
 was sent by the Methodic'ts to what was then called the Black Mountain 
 Circuit, including all the western part of the State and a portion of 
 Tennessee — the " fiir West" in 1792. For a number of .< years he 
 preached monthly at Newton Academy, and the first campmeetiug ever 
 held in the county was on his possessions. Finding that he was unable 
 to govern a number of slaves which he inherited and raised, he parted 
 with them. Once while preaching the funeral sermon of one of a large 
 family named Stepp, he unintentionally gave great oflense to the family 
 by exclaiming: -'Yes! and after all these warnings from God, you will 
 go oia, step by step, till you all go down to hell!" Rev. James Askew, 
 born in 1778, was an early settler on Spring Creek, and was one of the 
 pioneer Methodist ministers for a long period. He died in 1852. 
 
 Rev. Humphrey Posey, a pioneer Baptist in the western section, was 
 noted for his great originality and mental force. Among others, who 
 made this section rich in strong deeds and by their " walk and conversa- 
 tion," may be mentioned General Philip Brittain, who suggested the 
 name for Henderson county; Colonel John Clayton, James Johnson, the 
 Revolutionary soldier and man of God ; Colonel J. Barnett, Colonel 
 Ben. Davidson, Captain Thomas Foster, Colonel James M. Alexander, 
 Colonel James M. Lowry, James Gudger, George Jones, John Woodfiu, 
 Colonel John Miller, and the original and hardy Captain Thomas Case; 
 while, in addition to these, such names as Baird, Weaver, Whitson, 
 Brevard, Vance, Blackstock, and many others have left an indelible 
 impress by the industry, enterprise and sturdy character ®f themselves 
 and their descendants. 
 
 The opening of the roads already mentioned gave a tremendous im- 
 petus to trade, and Asheville, being also the distributing point for mails, 
 became a trading post of considerable importance. In those early days 
 in the "woods," hardy courage, shrewd business ability, thrift, and 
 st;urdy self-reliance were needed for worldly success, and these qualities 
 were not lacking in the pioneer traders of Asheville. James Patton, 
 J. McC. Smith, and Andrew Erwin have already been mentioned. To 
 these may be added Jeremiah Cleveland, George Jones, William R. Smith, 
 James W. Patton, Montraville Paiton, J. T. Poor, Samuel and Alfred 
 Chuun, W. D. Rankin and others, who in succeeding years traded with 
 the surrounding country ; and trade was lively — the pioneers, when 
 not fighting Indians, had an eye to the main chance and exchanged 
 wares for valuable iurs and skins. As the country settled up, the prod- 
 ucts of the farm were exchanged for the various articles kept iii the 
 *' general stores" of the day. Colonel A. T. Davidson relates that in 
 
10 ASHEVJLLE AND VlCINlTY— A HANDBOOK. 
 
 1832 his father sent him to Asheville from Haywood county to exchange 
 beeswax and other products for clover seed, and this was the first clover 
 ever planted in Haywood ; and James M. Eduey, in the AxheviJle 
 Messenger, of 1850, says, in an article on Hot Springs : " On our way 
 down we met 373 head of Kentucky cattle in one drove; and at the 
 Springs saw in another drove 400 ducks." 
 
 From 1803 to 1844 the number of buildings in Asheville nearly 
 doubled. The town was incorporated in 1833; still there were less than 
 a score of houses in 1844, and all these were on or near Main street. It 
 was at the old Buck Hotel that Colonel Davidson, then a mere lad, 
 stopped. A famous hostelry it was in those days and for many years, 
 and is still standing at the northeast corner of North Main and College 
 streets. In 1844 there was no building on the east side of Main street 
 between the old Buck and Woodfin street, and only a small building on 
 the Woodfin place. AVhere the old Carolina House now stands, was a 
 blacksmith's shop owned by Mr. Peter Stradley, who lived in a house 
 back of the shop. 
 
 Before the 40's John Dickson, D.D., M.D., conducted a young ladies' 
 seminary in the Johnston House, corner of Church street and Patton 
 avenue, which was torn down in 1895, to make way for the Drhumor 
 Block. In this school Elizabeth Black well, the first woman in America 
 ever granted a medical diploma, taught. It seems a curious coincidence 
 that just fifty years later the first female physician to practice in Ashe- 
 ville began her duties with her office within a few yards of that old brick 
 building. The Dickson School was successfully conducted for many 
 years and took high rank as an institution of learning. 
 
 The only building in 1844 on College street was one on the Davidson 
 place, while the only one east of the Woodfin House was a Methodist 
 parsonage The land northeast of the court-house was used as a parade 
 ground for the militia. On South Main there was a frame store build- 
 ing owned by Montraville Patton, and the building on the northeast 
 corner of Eagle and Main streets was occupied by Dr. Hardy. 
 
 Part of the Eagle Hotel, which was the first three-story building 
 erected in Buncombe county, was then standing. AVhere Powell & 
 Snider's store now stands, A. B. Chunn had a house. Battery Park Hill, 
 then known as Battery Porter, was at that time "in the country," and 
 as late as 1872 the boys of the village were accustomed to shoot squir- 
 rels there. In addition to the schools already mentioned. Colonel Lee's 
 school for boys was a noted one, and many of the best citizens of the 
 Carolinas were educated by him. Colonel Lee came from South Caro- 
 lina and opened his school in a large brick house built by himself. This 
 was situated on the Swannanoa and was known as The Lodge, which 
 
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12 ASHEV[LLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 
 
 afterwards became the hospitable summer home of Mr. William Patton. 
 Colonel T^ee moved from The Lodge to Chuun's Cove in 1847, and there 
 continued his school until the beginning of the war between the States, 
 when, with eight sons and many of his pupils, he enlisted on the South- 
 ern side. Another school which has passed away was one where girls 
 were taught by Mrs. Morrison and Miss Cozzins, and was situated on 
 Haywood street, where W. H. Penland's home now stands. 
 
 It is well said that the character of a town is judged by its churches. 
 Of the four great Protestant bodies, the Presbyterians were the first to 
 occupy Asheville. James Pation, who has already been frequently men- 
 tioned and without a reference to whose public-spirited liberality a his- 
 tory of Asheville would be incomplete, united with Samuel Chunn in 
 donating a beautiful plat of ground covered with splendid oaks, where 
 the first church, a brick building, was erected. It occupied the present 
 spot of the First Presbyterian Church. The IMethodists first occupied a 
 schoolhouse, wiiich was situated on the site of the present Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, South, This was replaced by a large frame building, 
 and this by the present brick building. The Episcopalians had at first 
 only occasional services by travelling clergymen. In 1847 Kev. James 
 Buxton came as rector, and, by faithful service extending over a period 
 of more than forty years, established for himself a warm place in the 
 hearts of the people. The property now owned by Trinity Parish was 
 donated by James W. Patton and a brick church was built in 1849. 
 This was replaced by the larger church now standing on the same spot. 
 
 To the unshaken determination of the Rev. Thomas Stradley, who for 
 many years was almost the only Baptist in this neighborhood, that de- 
 nomination is indebted in large measure for the establishment of a 
 church and congregation. The First Baptist Church, now occupying the 
 old Vance property, where Zeb Vance first opened his law office, repre- 
 sents, with several other churches in the city, the outcome of Mr. Strad- 
 ley's untiring devotion. 
 
 From eighteen houses in 1844, Asheville grew, by 1870, to a town of 
 1,500 people. By 1880 the population had grown to 2,610. The 
 Western North Carolina Railroad came in 1880, and since that time 
 Asheville has increased, until to day the people within her borders num- 
 ber 12,832. The advent of the railroad, however, did not mark the 
 beginning of Asheville's reputation as a leading resort both fi)r health- 
 seekers and for those who wished to escape the depressing heat of sum- 
 mer. For considerably more than half a century, wealthy planters and 
 others from the South have come here to enjoy the enchanting scenery, 
 the cool summers, and the life-giving air. E J. Aston, Esq., gave a 
 great impetus to Northern travel to Asheville by publishing a pamphlet 
 
ASHEVILLE AND VlCINITV A HANDBOOK. 15 
 
 on the climate, scenery, agricultural re- 
 sources, and mineral wealth of Western 
 North Carolina. However much others 
 may have labored for the upbuilding of 
 1 the city, no one will dispute that E. J. 
 Aston's untiring persistence in advertis- 
 ing Asheville and vicinity, his sturdy 
 devotion to her interests, and his splendid 
 example a3 a noble and upright citizen, 
 should forever enshrine him in the affec- 
 tions and memory of our people. 
 
 Christian Reid, in her charming de- 
 scriptive novel, "The Land of the Sky," 
 written many years before the railroad 
 added to Asheville's advantages, says of 
 the place: "It was less a town than a 
 collection of country seats, scattered ir- 
 regularly and picturesquely over innu- 
 merable hills." And again she adds that 
 there was an absence of " the stagnation 
 and depressing village air one knows so 
 well." Space forbids lingering too long 
 
 [•• A succession of interesting views, changing with every mile and every turn of the road. "1 
 SCENE ON SOUTHERN KAILW AY. 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND VfCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 over the period from 1840 to 1860, a period of peace and prosperity, 
 of uuliniited hospitality, of culture and refinement of the kind that 
 did not weaken character. Of modern push and progress there 
 was none ; neither was there poverty. With as brief a mention as 
 possible of that period the reader must be content. To speak of the 
 "natives" of that period as if they were tit subjects for a dime museum, and 
 to regard a squalid cabin as the type of their mountain home, is to show 
 an ignorance that is ludicrous. The same may be said of those Avho 
 
 f" So tortuous has been the ascent that f'oni one point the track may 
 be seen below on fourteen diffei-eiit grades."] 
 
 SCENE ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 
 
 speak similarly of the people and houses of to-day, though both suffered 
 sadly in the late war, and it has taken time to rebuild their desolated 
 homes and hopes. The names of the early settlers of Western North 
 Carolina attest, no less strongly than the records show, the large element 
 of Scotch-Irish which settled in our mountains, and whose descendants 
 to-day are worthy sons of a stock than which there is no more brave, 
 sturdy, and upright in all that goes to make good citizens. A "home- 
 
ASHEVII-LB AND ViCINl.V-A HANDBOOK. 
 
 15 
 
 keeping" people, coatent with a suffioiency, they have tl,e same sp.n o 
 their ancestors, who, with Sevier, Boone, and otl>ers opened the West 
 for settlen.ent in the face of innneuse chu.gers and discouragements, and 
 despite the whimperings of the East. Direct descendants of those whose 
 intense energy helped to bla/.e the way for and n.ake poss.ble the control 
 of the Mississippi river and the trans-Mississippi territory, there is in 
 this people a sturdy Americanism, unmixed with foreign elements. 
 
 Of some of the AsheviUe homes of the "long ago" brief mention may 
 be made To the south was Swannanoa Hill, now the residence of Major 
 Breese, where lived the popular and able Dr. Hardy in princely style 
 surrounded by all the beauty that nature, adorned and unadorned, could 
 give Farther north and opposite to this was the residence of Dr. John 
 Dickson, who lived on and improved the property now owned by Mr. 
 James M. Campbell. Nearer to AsheviUe was Bellev.ew, inherited by 
 Mrs. Joshua Roberts, daughter of one of Buncombe s first settlers 
 This was afterwards purchased by Dr. Hardy. On a neighboring hiU 
 lived Dr Tennant in the house now known as Mountain Cottage, be- 
 tween Belleview and Swannanoa Hill lived Dr. Foster in the then hand- 
 some retreat, now known as the Baird property. Nearer the center ot 
 the town stood the beautiful Patton home. The beautiful home now 
 owned by Dr. Burroughs was formerly part of the Woodfin estate, and 
 was famous for its luxurious surroundings and the hospitality dispensed. 
 The Rankin homestead and Mr. Jolin Woodfin's, now the Fagg property, 
 deserve more than passing mention. On College street stood the Mom- 
 son home and the old Vance property, the latter now occupied by the 
 First Baptist Church. On Church street were the Buxton, A^ton, and 
 Johnston homes. In the western section were the homes o Phi letus 
 and Joshua Roberts. The Ravenscroft Building and AsheviUe Female 
 College, the latter including on its grounds a part of the present Oaks 
 Hotel as a boarding hall, have their places in these --fs of former 
 days The old McDowell place (now Mr. Garrett's) , Antler Hall fh 
 p/st. Azalea, and Murphy's should not be omitted. The Eagle Hotel 
 has alreadv been mentioned-a great resort in its day. Deaver s Springs 
 now White Sulphur, «ve miles from town; the Warm Springs, wh^^h 
 have since become Hot; and Alexander's, were widely popular, fhe 
 AsheviUe Messenger of 1850 has a very interesting article by Jame» M 
 Edney on Warm Springs, Paint Rock, and The Chimneys. An idea of 
 the popularity of the Springs at that time and earlier may ^e gamed from 
 aqtotation from the article mentioned: " . . • ^" J^^^Jf '';, 
 came the property of James Patton, and have been -^^^.^^^J^^ 
 occupied by James W. and John E. Patton. his sons ever sine. Thes 
 gentlemen have greatly improved and popularized them. The present 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 
 
 building is a most beautiful one ; 230 feet long, two stories high, with a 
 piazza fronting the river, studded with thirteen massive columns, twenty 
 feet in height. The dining-room is 40 by 80 feet ; the bar, ball, and 
 dancing-rooms are all airy, spacious and comfortable. In addition to 
 this, there are six other small brick buildings for families and single gen- 
 tlemen, all beautifully situated on a level surface or green lawn, in a 
 fine grove of locust and other forest trees, set out by the proprietors. 
 
 ["The ride from Asheville to the Hot Springs, alontr the valley of the beautiful and historic 
 French Broad river, is the most picturesque iu America."] 
 
 SCENE ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 
 
 The establishment accommodates comfortably 250 persons, and 240 can 
 be seated at the dining tables at one time. The improvements were 
 made at great expense, and the main building, with a stable 60 by 160^ 
 feet, were burned down September 18, 1838 ; but, by great efforts, were 
 reopened July 1, 1839." In the Messenger of 1851, by the same writer, 
 is an interesting article descriptive of an ascent of Black Mountain. In 
 
• ASIIEVILLE AND ViCINTTY— A HANDBOOK. 17 
 
 the article the writer states that he and A. S. Merrimou climbed the two 
 highest balsams on top of the mountain and gave three cheers each, in 
 succession, "for the United States, Millard Fillmore and William A. 
 Graham, the Old North State, Professor Mitchell, Mountain Boys, and 
 Buncombe Lassies." 
 
 A history of Asheville and Buncombe would be incomplete without a 
 mention of Colonel David Coleman, a gentleman of great learning and 
 legal ability. So, too, of Nicholas W. AVoodfin, with his caustic wit but 
 ge^'nerous heart, who in his day was regarded as the ablest lawyer at the 
 Asheville bar and one of the greatest criminal lawyers that North Car- 
 olina has produced. He was a member of the convention of May, 1861, 
 which passed the ordinance of secession. 
 
 Zeb Vance, legislator, Governor, Representative, and Senator, the 
 great commoner, the idol of North Carolina, the pride of Buncombe, needs 
 no commendation or mention that could make him better known or better 
 
 loved. 
 
 Dr. J. G. Hardy and Dr. W. L. Hilliard must be mentioned, the two 
 physicians who for so many years displayed their splendid abilities and 
 were held by the entire community in so high and affectionate esteem. 
 
 An extended history of Asheville and vicinity during the war period, 
 thou oh richly deserved, cannot be made in the limits of a short sketch. 
 On April 12, 1861, the Buncombe Kiflemen left Asheville for Raleigh, 
 and reached there in time to form part of the first regiment under Colonel 
 D. H. Hill, and were on their way to Virginia before the act of secession 
 was passed. The company consisted of about one hundred men, with 
 W. W. McDowell as captain ; W. M. Hardy, James A. Patton and G. H. 
 Gregory as lieutenants. They took part in the first battle of the war, the 
 battle of Bethel, on June 10, 1861. When their time of enlistment, 
 six months, expired, members of the company quickly enlisted in other 
 regiments. Some of them, under Captain J. M. Young, joined the 
 lUh Regiment, and were afterwards almost completely destroyed at 
 
 Gettysburg. 
 
 The second company from Buncombe was the Rough and Ready 
 Guards, which left Asheville May 3, 1861, officered by Z. B. Vance, 
 captain ; P. W. Roberts, J. M. Gudger and S. S. Brown, lieutenants. 
 On a reorganization of the company at a later period, Captain Vance 
 became colonel of the 26th Regiment ; P. W. Roberts of the 14th ; J. M. 
 Gudger captain of the Rough and Readys ; Frank M. Haney, Thomas D. 
 Johnston, George W. Murray, lieutenants. The first Buncombe boy killed 
 during the war was Willie Hardy, son of Dr. J. F. E. Hardy. He was 
 shot dead at First Manassas while carrying dispatches across the field, 
 and his body now lies a little north of the Asheville Library Building. 
 
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 ASHF.VILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Of the last years of the war the less said the better. A mention of 
 the atrocious deeds of deserters from both armies would only reopen 
 wounds scarcely yet healed. 
 
 It remains now to speak of Asheville of to-day, which dates from the 
 advent of the railroad in 1880. Of the great impetus given to travel to 
 this section by means of the advertising done by E. J. Aston, mention 
 has already been made. This, with the railroads, was influential in ad- 
 vertising the advantages of Asheville and Western North Carolina to out- 
 
 PATTON AVE. STREET SCENE. 
 
 siders from all over this country, Canada, and parts of Europe. With 
 her miles of paved streets, her four banks (two National), her churches, 
 her fine system of public schools, her well equipped private schools, her 
 business college, the elegant hotels which can easily accommodate from 
 1,200 to 1,500 people, the miles of street railways, the morning and 
 afternoon daily papers, the Library, the Opera House (the finest in the 
 State), the water-works and sewer system, the electric and gas lighting, 
 the telephone exchange, the fire department, the associations and clubs 
 of various names and kinds, the factories, the splendid business houses, 
 
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 19 
 
 the Federal Building, the City Hall, with its fiue raarket accommodations, 
 Asheville takes rank at once as a city which for push and pluck is not 
 anywhere surpassed. For its size, the city is perhaps the most cosmopol- 
 itan in the United States. This is not surprising to those who meet here 
 people from every point of the compass. Stagnation in such an atmos- 
 phere is impossible. 
 
 It is not the intention of the historian to boom the city, but simply to 
 relate facts as they exist. The fact that in the last year upward of 
 
 $400,000 worth of business blocks and residences have been erected, is 
 an index that Asheville is not asleep even in the day when " hard times" 
 are cried. It is a matter of astonishment to visitors to note how many 
 of the people, who come to Asheville for a short visit, decide to remain 
 permanently. The result of this decision is seen in the neat, and often 
 elegant, homes which are being constructed in all parts of the city at all 
 times of the year. Of the climatic advantages of this section one need 
 scarcely speak. 
 
Apheville and Vicinity — A Handbook. 
 
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 SCENE ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY 
 
ASHEVILLE ANT) ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 21 
 
 Topography. 
 
 The city nestles in the mountains on an elevated broken plateau 250 
 feet above the French Broad river, and is protected by a range of moun- 
 tains on the east. The plateau forms an undulating surface of about 
 two miles from east to west, and of unlimited extent north and south. 
 The mean elevation above the sea level is 2,389 feet. 
 
 Churches. 
 
 The churches of Asheville include the Baptist, the Methodist Episco- 
 pal, South; the Presbyterian, Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Christian, 
 Roman Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran, and Unitarian. The names and 
 locations of each will be found in the Directory proper. 
 
 Schools— Public. 
 
 The city of Asheville was made a special school district in 1887. A 
 tax of sixteen and two-thirds cents on each hundred dollars of listed 
 property, and fifty cents on each poll, was levied, and the city's public 
 school property was turned over to a school committee, which had been 
 appointed. This property consisted of a small wooden house belonging 
 to the old colored district, a vacant lot and a small sum of money be- 
 longing to the white district. The old military academy on Montford 
 avenue was purchased and repaired with the colored building. The 
 schools opened in January, 1888, with more than 600 white applicants 
 and 300 colored. The building on Orange street was completed by the 
 fall of 1888, at a cost of about $11,000. Ten white teachers and one 
 colored were added, and 1,200 children were admitted. A tax of thirty 
 cents on property and ninety cents on polls was levied to raise $12,000, 
 which was badly needed. This was continued the following year ; but 
 the rate was afterwards made twenty cents on property and sixty cents 
 on polls, the maximum allowed by the amendment passed by the legisla- 
 ture of 'l889. The legislature of 1891 passed a bill authorizing the City 
 Council to issue bonds of the city to the amount of $25,000. This act 
 was ratified by an almost unanimous vote of the people. Three hand- 
 some brick buildings were erected in the summer of 1892— the Mont- 
 ford, Bailey, and Catholic Hill buildings. Another issue of $25,000 in 
 bonds was made, and to-day the city has four handsome brick buildings 
 in which to accommodate her children. The school tax received from 
 the city is about $11,000 and from the county about $5,000, The 
 schools are free of debt, are well equipped with modern conveniences, 
 are thoroughly progressive, and are patronized by every class of society. 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 There are twenty-Dine teachers, twenty-two white and seven colored, and 
 one superintendent who devotes his entire time to the schools. It has 
 always been the policy of the committee to choose teachers according to 
 fitness, regardless of geographical locality or sectarian views ; and 
 this wise policy has led to the selection of a fine corps of teachers, who 
 keep in touch with every educational move. The enrollment for the 
 session of 1895-6 was 1,581. 
 
 Schools— Private. 
 
 One of the oldest institutions of learning in the western portion ot 
 the State is the Asheville Female College, which is an outgrowth of the 
 Dickson Seminary, ah'eady referred to. The present building was 
 erected by Dr. James Atkins and the late J. A. Branner, in 1888. The 
 school is well equipped with modern conveniences, and has always been 
 well patronized. 
 
 The Misses Champion's School for Girls was opened in January, 1886, 
 and has been successful from its beginning, owing to the refined culture 
 and surroundings, and thorough instruction. 
 
ASIIEVILLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 
 
 23 
 
 The Ravenscroft High School for Boijs was established in 1850, and 
 commands a good patronage. 
 
 There is probably no school in the State more useful than the Home 
 liifhistrial for GirU. This school was given by Ur. L. M. Pease, in 
 1887, to the Woman's Executive Committee of the Presbyterian Board 
 of Home Missions. The property was then valued at $40,000. The 
 name of the school indicates the character of its work, which is very 
 thorough. The amount of good that the school has already accomplished 
 
 
 is incalculable. Miss Florence Stephenson is its efficient manager. Dr. 
 Pease is well known as the founder of the Five Points Mimon in New 
 York. He is correctly regarded as the apostle of industrial educa- 
 tion in Western North Carolina. His self-denying and godly life, his 
 splendid liberality, his single-hearted devotion to the good of his fellow- 
 men, his grand character, should immortalize him in the hearts of 
 the people among whom he has lived and labored for many years. 
 
 The Normal and Collegiate Institute, though separate from the Indus- 
 trial School, is also owned by the Presbyterian Board. The school is 
 well equipped in every particular, and during the last session had 215 
 pupils. Dr. Thomas Lawrence is the President of the Institute. 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Bingliam's School, founded in 1793 by the grandfather of Major Robert 
 Bingham, the present principal, was, until 1890, located in Orange 
 county, North Carolina. The school is situated on a bluff overlooking 
 French Broad river, and commands one of the finest views in this 
 entire section. The buildings are equipped with every possible conve- 
 nience for a military school, and from a sanitary point of view are un- 
 surpassed. The instruction is thorough in every way. 
 
 One of the most useful institutions in the city is the Southern Biidness 
 College, under Professor M. M. Lemmond. Thorough training is given 
 in a business course, stenography, typewriting, penmanship, etc. 
 
 i" On every side rise hill upon liill and mountain upon mountain, vvitli many a Heaven- 
 aspiriug peak among them. "J 
 
 SCENE ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 
 
 The Skijland Imtitute, under Professor J. S. Dickey, which is now en- 
 tering its third year, is well patronized by the people of the city, and 
 affords excellent facilities for instruction for boys and girls. 
 
 The Asheville Free Kindergarten Associatkni has four kindergarten 
 schools in the city, three white and one colored. The association is 
 doing great good, and is conducted entirely by private subscription. 
 (See Local Charities. ) 
 
 The AshevUle Farm School is situated ten miles east of the city. It 
 consists of 420 acres, purchased about three and one-half years ago, at a 
 cost of $14,500. Twenty thousand dollars have since been expended. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViriNITY— A HANDBOOK. 
 
 25 
 
 The school opened on November 2, 1894, with ahout twenty boys, 
 this beincr all tliat could be accommodated at that time. Over one hun- 
 dred can" now be provided for. The school is meant to give the boys a 
 
 tliorouuh elementary education, to teach them all 
 kinds of farm work and house work, except cook- 
 ing, and to teach carpentering. 
 
 Cohrrd Industrial Scliool (See Local Charities.) 
 Colored Faroehial Schools. (See Local Charities.) 
 
 Local Charities. 
 
 Flower Mission.— The Flower Mission, which 
 began its modest work in the spring of 1884, 
 
 w^as organized as 
 
 auxiliary to the 
 I State branch of that 
 , department of the 
 1 National W. C. T. 
 jU., its primary work 
 ! beino; confined to 
 I the sphere which its 
 ^ name indicates. An 
 extension, however, 
 has been made, and 
 ithe original little 
 F 1 w e r Mission 
 hand has grown into 
 an associated char- 
 i t v organization. 
 The central oftice of 
 the Mission is in 
 the City Hall The work is thoroughly and systematically organized 
 The city is divided into districts, and wherever suffering and ^^^ut 
 appear, the Mission sends its representatives. By systematic, but kindly, 
 investigation, every case of reported need is looked into, and the abuses 
 of beggary are thus avoided. 
 
 Mission Hospital.-The Mission Hospital i-^ an outgrowth of the Flower 
 Mission, and had its start in 1885, with the rent of only two rooms as- 
 sured In 1887 the board of managers bought the Hawley place, which 
 with a few alterations, was used as a hospital for five years The work 
 grew, and a new building with modern a,,pliances became absolutely nee 
 Lary Through the generous offer of Miss Laura Houghtehng, m 1891, 
 
 ~^ ^- 1 .oil ,,r r.M.uni .iii< liiteen hundred to two 
 
 r An almost perpend.cular^.^au^. i'eet high."! 
 
 SCENE ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 
 
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 of $1,500 as a contribution to a new building, the managers were en- 
 abled to start a financial campaign sufficiently successful to justify the 
 erection of a new building, which was ready for occuj^ation December 18, 
 1892. The hospital still has a debt of $4,000 on it, and is dependent to 
 a very large extent on private contributions. Too much praise cannot 
 be given the managers and the efficient medical staff for their earnest 
 work in the upbuilding of this much needed charity. 
 
 Children's Home. — The Buncombe County Children's Home grew out 
 of a conversation between Mr. J. E. Rankin, Chairman of the County 
 
 Commissioners, and Miss Fannie L. Patton, in November, 1889, when 
 the latter had asked for a poor woman and two children admission to the 
 almshouse. Mr. Rankin, always ready to assist in every good work and 
 to use his strong influence for the growth of the city and county, sug- 
 gested an appeal to the commissioners; and at their next meeting, accom- 
 panied by Captain J. P. Sawyer, Miss Patton induced them to appoint a 
 committee to bring forward plans for the establishment of a home for 
 destitute and friendless children until suitable private homes could be 
 found for them. Captain J. P. Sawyer, Captain T. W. Patton^ 
 and J. E. Rankin assisted in the presentation of the plans. There 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 2T 
 
 was a crying need for such an institution. It was determined by 
 the committee to ask for only $000 from the county, and to appeal to 
 the generosity of the citizens of Asheville for further aid. The response 
 was prompt and hearty. Through the assistance of the managers of the 
 Mission Hospital, a portion of the Hospital grounds was obtained free of 
 cost for a term of five years. The new home was opened March 11, 
 1890, and an act of the legislature, passed in March, 1891, legalized the 
 establishment and maintenance at public expense of such homes in Bun- 
 combe county. The home has done a good that cannot be estimated. 
 Miss Patton, active in every good work, may well be pleased with the 
 result of an idea which has saved so many children from ignorance and 
 vice and given them a fair opportunity for independent self-support. 
 
 Asheville Reformatory. —The Asheville Reformatory was made an ad- 
 junct of the city prison at the instigation and under the administration 
 of Captain T. W. Patton, during his mayoralty. A suitable police 
 matron was employed by the city, whose duty it is to supervise the women 
 prisoners and keep them profitably employed. A large room in the City 
 Hall is devoted to this purpose. 
 
 Lindley Trainincj School— In connection with the Reformatory should 
 be mentioned the Lindley Training School, which is situated near Ashe- 
 ville. About five years ago Mrs. C. G. Mitchell was deeply impressed 
 with the need of a rescue home, and by her influence and the contribu- 
 tions of friends in and out of Asheville, the school was built. 
 
 W. C. T. U.—The Asheville W. C. T. U. was organized by Miss Willard 
 in 1883, and has been efficiently active since its foundation in all lines 
 of charity work and in enlightening the public mind in regard to the 
 evils of intemperance. 
 
 Asheville Free Kindergarten.— The A. F. K. Association was incor- 
 porated in 1892, when, through the generosity of Mr. George W. Pack, 
 a school building was erected and given the association. The Colored 
 Kindergarten was opened in the Colored Young Men's Institute through 
 the generosity of Mr. George W. Vanderbilt, when an appeal was made 
 to him in the autumn of 1894. 
 
 S. P. C. ^.— The North Carolina Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
 to Animals was organized at Asheville, April 1, 1890, with H. H. Lyons 
 as its founder. The society, though a small one, has accomplished much 
 
 good. 
 
 Parochial ScJwols, Colored— The first organized effort for the education 
 of the colored people through the channels of charity was the parochial 
 school of the Episcopal church, opened in 1870 by Miss A. L. Chapman, 
 of Rochester, N. Y., who was succeeded after two years by Rev. Mr. 
 Berry. On Eagle street Rev. C. B. Dusenberry, of the Presbyterian 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 
 
 church, has a parochial school, and on Valley street. Rev. H. S. McDiiffey, 
 of the Protestant Episcopal church, has one. In Victoria a combined 
 chapel and schoolhouse was erected about six years ago, through the gen- 
 erosity of Mr. Taylor, of Ohio, and a flourishing day school has been 
 kept up. 
 
 Industrial Sehool, Colored. — In 1885 Rev. Dr. L. M. Pease erected a 
 building for an industrial school on College street, and opened it in the 
 autumn of that year. The school was in the next year deeded to the 
 
 HOTEL BERKELEY. 
 
 Woman's Board of Missions of the M. E. Church, and has been in con 
 tinuous successful operation. Additional quarters are now being erected. 
 Youmi Men's Institute. — In 1892 a Mr. Stephens, principal of the col- 
 ored graded school, appealed to Mr. George W. A^anderbilt for aid in 
 erecting a colored Y. M. C. A. The generous response was the fine and 
 substantial building which is fitted up with stores, offices,"a^large lecture 
 hall, a library and reading-room, parlor and | school-room, and the office 
 of the superintendent. 
 
ASIIEVILLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 29 
 
 Y. 31 a ^.— The Y. M. C. A. was organized in 1889. A gymna- 
 sium, lecture-room, parlors, boys' rooms, bath-rooms, and reading rooms 
 were opened, and the association has been a powerful factor for good 
 since its foundation. A small library is being accumulated and the lead- 
 ing reviews and papers are on its tables. 
 
 Fire Department. 
 
 The Asheville Fire Department, though voluntary, is a very efficient 
 one, and the promptness, energy, and courage of the members have 
 saved the city thousands of dollars. Prior to 1882 the Bucket Brigade 
 existed. In that year the city purchased a hook and ladder truck and a 
 small hand-truck with two small chemical extinguishers attached. Cap- 
 tain J. P. Sawyer was made chief of the department in 1883. On 
 August 1, 1894, Hose Co. No. 1 was organized with H. G. Fagg as 
 captain. The city then had two reels and 800 feet of hose. In March, 
 1890, two auxiliary companies were organized. They were then known 
 as the North Asheville and West Asheville companies, and are now 
 known as Companies Nos. 1 and 2. From June, 1892, to June, 1893, 
 the department was in a disorganized condition, owing to certain differ- 
 ences between the company and the city authorities. The chiefs have 
 been Captain J. P. Sawyer, George S Powell and J. R. Rich ; Captain 
 Sawyer is the present chief. The position was refused by W. F. Ran- 
 dolph, who for a number of years was in the department. There are 
 now twenty-one members of Hose Company No. 1, four members of 
 Company No. 2, five members of Company No. 3, and twelve members 
 of the Hook and Ladder. Since 1892, with a short exception, L. \V. 
 Jeanneret has been the able and efficient secretary of the dei^artmeut. 
 
 Asheville Library. 
 
 Asheville Lihrarij. — The Asheville Library was organized January 20, 
 1879. A reading circle, which had been in active operation for two 
 years, led to the idea of the Library. Probably the most active workers 
 in arousing a substantial interest were Misses Anna C. Aston, Fanny L. 
 Patton, and Anna Chunn. The Library was not allowed to stand still 
 even in location, and was moved from place to place until, through the 
 generosity of Captain T. W. Patton and Miss Patton, heirs-at-law% a 
 deed was made to the Library Association in November, 1893, whereby 
 the plat of land on which the Library building now stands came into its 
 possession. The Library consists of about 3,000 volumes. The books 
 are taken out by subscription, but the reading-room is free to the public. 
 
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 Asheville Light Infantry. 
 
 The A. L. I. was organized March 4, 1888. Its first captain was 
 John H. Barnard ; 1st lieutenant, Ed. Weddin ; 2d lieutenant, R. P. 
 Johnston. Its second captain was Dufl^ Merrick ; third, T. M. Kim- 
 berly ; fourth, White G. Smith (now major 2d Battalion, 4th Regiment, 
 :N. C. State Guard). The present captain is T. W. Bookhart ; 1st lieu- 
 tenant, R. S. Stewart; 2d lieutenant, J. F. Cunningham. The appro- 
 priation was, until changed by the last legislature, $250 per annum, 
 when it was reduced to $150, which is used to supply uniforms, etc. 
 The company is aided by the city, and consists of between fifty and 
 sixty members. 
 
 Population. 
 
 The population, as shown by census of 1890, was almost 10,000 ; the 
 population to-day is nearly 13,000, which shows a gain of 30 per cent, 
 in the last six years. Had temporary residents, who are here for six and 
 twelve months at a time, been counted, the total population would be 
 much larger. The floating population of Asheville is very large. 
 
 Including the suburbs the population is 14,933, and including the float- 
 ing population the figures ap^^roximate 18,500. 
 
 This increase of 30 per cent, has been made during a period of general 
 ■depression. This fact in itself speaks well for the inducements which 
 Asheville offers those seeking pleasant homes, and shows that the city has 
 not been seriously affected by the stagnation so generally prevalent sub- 
 sequent to the boom years of 1890-91. 
 
 Clubs. 
 
 Clubs. — Asheville has for years boasted of fine social clubs. The 
 Cosmopolitan and the Carolina held sway during the days of Asheville's 
 most rapid growth. The Cosmopolitan was reorganized and became the 
 Asheville Club. The Carolina merged into the Asheville, and with its 
 elegant quarters in the recently constructed Drhumor Block, the Ashe- 
 ville Club will continue in an increased degree to be one of the finest 
 social features of the city. The Swannanoa Country Club is a great ad- 
 dition to the social life of the city. The modest but elegant club-house 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 31 
 
 on Battery Park Hill is excellent in every appointment, while the Hunt- 
 ing Lodge, two and a half miles southwest of the city, is a popular resort 
 for those members and guests who patronize the chase. 
 
 DRHUMOR BLOCK. 
 
 Newspapers. 
 
 The first newspaper published in Asheville was the Highland Mess- 
 enger, published by Joshua Roberts and Rev. D. R. McAnally. 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Among the papers which have lived and died are : The Asheville 3Ier.sen- 
 ger, The Asheville Spectator, The Asheville News, The Asheville Democrat. 
 The two leading papers to-day are The Daily Citizen, afternoon daily and 
 semi- weekly, and the Gazette, morning. Besides these are The State 
 Register, weekly ; New Era, weekly ; Asheville News and Hotel Reporter, 
 weekly; Colored Enterprise, weekly; Epworth News, ^Qmi-monihlj', Tar- 
 Heel Knight and Lyceum, monthly ; and Fidler's Gleaner, occasionally. 
 
 THE OAKS HOTEL." 
 
 Hotels, Railroads, Etc. 
 
 Hotels. — An extended mention of Asheville's hotels is not needed. 
 Her accommodations are ample and elegant. In place of the old Buck, 
 the Eagle and the Carolina House, have come the Battery Park and 
 Kenilworth Inn, both known beyond the States as among the most ele- 
 gant hostelries in the entire country, and the Berkeley, the Oakland 
 Heights, the Swannanoa, the Oaks, the Asheville, Glen Rock, and 
 others, which justly have a large and substantial patronage. The Bat- 
 tery Park was opened in 1886, and has constantly undergone extensive 
 improvements to keep pace with the increased demand for room. The 
 same may be said of Kenilworth Inn, which was opened in 1891. The 
 old Grand Central has given place to the modern Berkeley. When it is 
 remembered that Asheville accommodates annually about 70,000 vis- 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 33 
 
 itors, it can be seen that her hotels and boarding-houses must have ample 
 facilities for guests. 
 
 liailroad.i. — "Asheville is now approached by rail from the north via 
 •Salisbury, N. C, and Morristown, Teun. ; from the east via Salisbury 5 
 from the south via Spartanburg, S. C; and from the west and north, 
 west via both Murpliy, N. C, and Morristown, Tenn." — Asheville, Where 
 It Is. 
 
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 SCENE ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY. 
 
 Electric Railways. — Asheville has three electric railway systems run- 
 ning through every section of the city and into and through the various 
 suburbs. One can ride from the Square to the depot, to Lookout moun- 
 tain, to Sunset mountain, to the river at the foot of Bingham's Heights, 
 ^nd an electric road is being built to Victoria and Biltmore. 
 
 Water-Works. — Asheville owns its own water-works, which are five 
 miles from the city. The stand-pipe is on Beaumont, and has a capacity 
 of 330,000 gallons. The water is obtained from the Swannanoa, which 
 unites with the French Broad near the city limits, to the southwest. The 
 water-power of the French Broad is estimated at 175,000 horse-power. 
 Street Lighting. — The city is supplied with nearly 100 lamps for street 
 lighting, and electricity is used. Gas and electricity is furnished private 
 houses. 
 
 Vanderbllt's Biltmore. 
 
 ''With unlimited means, and a whole world to choose from, George 
 W. Vanderbilt has selected Asheville as the one place for creating the 
 splendid house and lordly park which his architects and engineers are 
 now constructing. Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect, 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 who gave New York her Central Park, is directiuoj this Jar more mag- 
 nificent work in Western North Carolina 
 
 "The house is beinc^ built under the direction of the eminent archi- 
 
 tect, the late Richard M. Hunt, and is a chateau of the French Renais- 
 sance, 375 feet long and 150 feet wide, modeled after the famous cha- 
 teau at Blois. France. 
 
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 35 
 
 *' The Biltmore estate contains 7,917 acres, and the Pink Bed tract of 
 Mr. Yanderbilt's hunting preserve contains 16,100 acres. An arbore- 
 tum, embracing many miles of winding road, traverses the Biltmore do- 
 main, and to complete its planting 6,000,000 plants will be required, 
 many of which are now being propagated. The number of plants 
 already propagated in the Biltmore nurseries for use on the estate, 
 reaches the enormous total of 4,800,000. 
 
 " When this great work is finished the result will be far the finest 
 private country residence in the United States, and probably in the 
 world." — Asheville, Where It Is. 
 
 OAKLAND HEIGHTS. 
 
 Property Valuation. 
 
 1873 — Real and personal $ 762,329 
 
 1883 " " " 2,169,004 
 
 1893 " " " 4,685,372 
 
 1895 '' '' '' 4,820,690 
 
 Of this last amount, $4,765,940 is owned by the white people, and 
 $54,750 by the colored people. Taxable incomes amount to $55,025, 
 the tax being one per cent, on this amount for State and county. The 
 rate of tax on valuation is $1.20 for the city (20 cents of this for 
 schools) and 90 cents for State and county (18 cents of this for schools). 
 Taxes levied for all purposes at last assessment amounted to $101,784.74. 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Winyah Sanitarium, 
 
 The Winyah is one of the most noted Sanitariums in this country, 
 especially for the treatment of consumption. It is under the manage- 
 ment of Dr. Karl Von Ruck, whose reputation as a specialist in the 
 treatment of tuberculosis has given him a world-wide reputation. Every 
 possible facility in treatment is at hand and the large patronage and re- 
 markable cures attest the worth of the institution. 
 
 Some Facts and Figures. 
 
 The following table gives the ratio of consumption in several sec- 
 tions of the country. The figures indicate the number of deaths from 
 this disease in every 1,000 deaths: 
 
 Northern New England (nearly) 250 
 
 Minnesota and California 150 
 
 Kentucky and Tennessee 109 
 
 Western North Carolina 30 
 
 — AsheveiUe, Where It Is. 
 
 Cemeteries. — The old church cemeteries have long since given way to 
 the beautiful Riverside Cemetery, overlooking the French Broad to the 
 northwest. The cemetery was opened in 1885. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 37 
 
 A Year's Weather. 
 
 FROM THE U. S. SIGNAL SERVICE STATION. 
 
 The temperature in wiuter (at Asheville) rises during mid-day with few 
 exceptions to 80 degrees or over, and in sheltered places with southern 
 exposure, to 70 or 80 in the sun. 
 
 Mean annual temperature, 54.60°F; mean maximum temperature, 
 68.24°F; mean minimum temperature, 43.53°F ; mean relative hu- 
 midity, 60.84. 
 
 Average number of clear and fair days in each month, 24 10-12. 
 
 Average number of cloudy and rainy days in each month, 5 7-12. 
 
 Average number of days on which .01 of an inch of rain or melted 
 snow fell, 9.4 
 
 Average monthly rainfall including melted snow, in inches, 2.83. 
 
 Total rainfall for the year in inches, 34. Mean annual barometer, 
 27.83. Prevailing winds, N. and N. W. 
 
 Board and Rent. 
 
 Unfurnished houses of eight to twelve rooms can be rented for $20 to 
 $40 per month. Small cottages rent for $5 to $10. Good board can 
 be obtained in any part of the city, ranging in price from $20 to $50 
 per month. 
 
 Retrospect and Prophecy. 
 
 Such is an outline— necessarily imperfect— of Asheville from its be- 
 ginnings in the last century. Her past is one of industry, thrift, and 
 plenty in davs of peace ; of bravery and courageous suffering in the 
 days of strife. Her present is full of pluck and push, and is secure. 
 Her affliirs are managed with prudence and ability by the business ele- 
 ment of the city, a fact which insures good government. No conceiv- 
 able reason exists to mar a rapid and substantial growth for the future. 
 
Miscellaneous and StatisticaL 
 
 United States Government. 
 
 President — Grover Cleveland, of New York. 
 Vice-President — Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois. 
 Secretary of State — Richard Olney, of Massachusetts. 
 Secretary of Treasury — John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky. 
 Secretary of AVar — Daniel S. Laniont, of New York. 
 Attorney-General — Judson Harmon, of Ohio. 
 Postmaster-General — Wm. L. Wilson, of West Virginia. 
 Secretary of Navy — Hilary A. Herbert, of Alabama. 
 Secretary of Interior — D. R. Francis, of Missouri. 
 Secretary of Agriculture — J, Sterling Morton, of Nebraska. 
 
 President-Elect — Wm. McKinley, of Ohio. 
 Vice-President-Elect — G. A. Hobart, of New Jersey. 
 
 U. S. Internal Revenue Office. — Western Division, Fifth District — 
 Federal Building, Samuel L. Rogers, Collector. 
 
 State Officers. 
 
 Governor — D. L. Russell. 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor — C. R. Reynolds. 
 
 Secretary State — C. W. Thompson. 
 
 Auditor — H. W. Ayer. 
 
 Treasurer— W. H. Worth. 
 
 Adjutant-General— F. H. Cameron. 
 
 Attorney-General — Z V. Walser. 
 
 Superintendent Public Instruction — C. H. Mebane. 
 
 State Judiciary. 
 
 Supreme Court. — Chief Justice, W. T. Faircloth ; Justices, R. M. 
 Douglas, Walter Clark, D. M. Furches, W. A. Montgomery. Clerk, 
 Thomas S. Kenan. 
 
 Ninth Congressional District. 
 
 Counties : Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, 
 Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, 
 Transylvania, Yancey. Representative, Richmond Pearson. 
 
 Post-Offices in North Carolina. 
 
 CORKECTED TO JUJ-Y 1, 1896, FROM " U. S. POSTAL GUIDE." 
 
 Offices in full-face type are Money-Order offices authorized to issue 
 and to pay money-orders. Those marked with the asterisk ('=^) are Inter- 
 national as well as Domestic money-order offices. Offices indicated by the 
 section sign (§) are authorized to issue " limited money-orders," but not 
 money-orders, nor to pay " limited money-orders" or moneij-orders. % in- 
 dicates summer post-offices. By the letters e.h. in parenthesis, thus: 
 (c. h.), county-seats are indicated. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HaNDUOOK. 
 
 POST-OFFICES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 
 
 ^aron Waj-ne 
 
 -Abbottsburj? Bladen 
 
 Abbotts Creek Davidson 
 
 Abells Johnston 
 
 -ABERDEEN MoOie 
 
 §Aberneihy Iredell 
 
 Abi Stanly 
 
 Abshers Wilkes 
 
 Aconite Randolph 
 
 Acresville Beaufort 
 
 Acton Buncombe 
 
 Adams Iredell 
 
 Addie Jackson 
 
 Adelaide Rockingham 
 
 Adley WilKCS 
 
 Adoir Gates 
 
 Adoniram Granville 
 
 Advance Davie 
 
 j^ffinity Robeson 
 
 Afton Warren 
 
 Agate Hertford 
 
 Aho Watauga 
 
 AHOSKIE Hertford 
 
 Ai Person 
 
 Airlie , Halifax 
 
 Aibaiis Union 
 
 ALBEMARLE (c h ) Stanly 
 
 Aibei tson Duplin 
 
 Alberty Surry 
 
 Albright Alamance 
 
 Aico Montgomery 
 
 Alderman Cumberland 
 
 ALEXANDER Buncombe 
 
 Alexis Gaston 
 
 Alfoi'dsville Robeson 
 
 Algiers Ashe 
 
 Algood .Yadkin 
 
 Alleghany Madison 
 
 AUemance Guilford 
 
 Allensville Person 
 
 Allenton Robeson 
 
 Ailenlon Ferry. ..Montgomery 
 
 ALLHEALING GaSton 
 
 Alliance Pamlico 
 
 Allison Caswell 
 
 Allreds Montgomery 
 
 Alma Robeson 
 
 Almond Swain 
 
 Alpha ..Rowan 
 
 Alpine Sampson 
 
 Alspaugh Forsyth 
 
 Altamahaw Alamance 
 
 Altamont Mitchell 
 
 ^Itan Union 
 
 Alto Buncombe 
 
 Amantha Watauga 
 
 Amboy Chowan 
 
 Amelia Alletrhany 
 
 Ames Union 
 
 Amherst Martin 
 
 AMITY Iredell 
 
 Amnion.. Bladen 
 
 Anderson Caswell 
 
 ANDREWS Cherokee 
 
 Angelina Henderson 
 
 Angle Wayne 
 
 A.ngola Onslow 
 
 Anna Alleghany 
 
 Anneta Hertford 
 
 Anson ville Anson 
 
 Antioch Robeson 
 
 Antler Moore 
 
 Antonia Cumberland 
 
 APEX Wake 
 
 j\.pplegrove ...^ Ashe 
 
 ^ppletree !i: Greene 
 
 Applewhite Columbus 
 
 ^quone Macon 
 
 Arapahoe Pamlico 
 
 Arcadia Davidson 
 
 ^RCHDAi-E ......Randolph 
 
 Archer Lodge Johnston 
 
 Areola Warren 
 
 Arcot Sampson 
 
 ARDEN Buncombe 
 
 Argo Nash 
 
 Argyle Cumberland 
 
 Arlmgton Mecklenburg 
 
 Armfield Iredell 
 
 Armour Columbus 
 
 Armstrong McDowell 
 
 Arnold Davidson 
 
 Arnt . Catawba 
 
 Arolina Richmond 
 
 Asbury Montgomery 
 
 Ascend Chatham 
 
 Ash Brunswick 
 
 ASHBORO (c- h.) Randolph 
 
 "asheville (c. /i.)... Buncombe 
 
 Ashfora McDowell 
 
 Ashhill Surry 
 
 Ashland Caswell 
 
 Ashiev Ashe 
 
 Ashpole Robeson 
 
 Ashton Pender 
 
 Askewville Bertie 
 
 Askin Craven 
 
 Aspengrove Rockingham 
 
 Atfa J )hnston 
 
 Athens Robeson 
 
 Athlone Yancey 
 
 Atkinson Pender 
 
 Atlantic Carteret 
 
 Atlee Rockingh m 
 
 Auburn Wake 
 
 Augusta Davie 
 
 aulander Bertie 
 
 Aureiian Springs Halifax 
 
 AURORA Be iu fort 
 
 AUbtin Wilkes 
 
 Autryville Sampson 
 
 Averasboro Harnett 
 
 Averys Creek Buncombe 
 
 Avilla Alexander 
 
 Avoca Bertie 
 
 Avon Dare 
 
 Axtell Warren 
 
 Ayden Pitt 
 
 Ayersville Stokes 
 
 Ayr Rutherford 
 
 Bachelor Craven 
 
 Bagdad J>avidson 
 
 Bagley Johnston 
 
 Bahama Durham 
 
 Bailey Davie 
 
 Bain Davidson 
 
 Bairds Creek Pamlico 
 
 bakersville(c h.) Mitchell 
 
 Bald i,'ieek Y'aucey 
 
 Baldwin Ashe 
 
 Balfour Henderson 
 
 Balientines Mills Wake 
 
 Baliew Cherokee 
 
 Balsam Jackson 
 
 Balsamgrove .... Transylvania 
 
 Bamboo VVatauga 
 
 Bandana Mitchell 
 
 Bandy Catawba 
 
 Bangor Wake 
 
 Banks Wake 
 
 Banner Johnston 
 
 Bannermans Pender 
 
 Banners Elk Watauga 
 
 Banton Iredell 
 
 Barclaysville ..Harnett 
 
 Barium Springs Iredell 
 
 Barker Jackson 
 
 Barnard Madison 
 
 Barnardsville ... Buncombe 
 
 Barnes Store Wilson 
 
 Barnesville Robeson 
 
 Bason Rockingham 
 
 Bass Sampson 
 
 Batcave Henderson 
 
 BATH Beaufort 
 
 Baton Caldwell 
 
 BATTLEBORO Nash 
 
 Battleground ..Guilford 
 
 Baucoms Union 
 
 Baxter Henderson 
 
 Bay Tyrrell 
 
 BAYBORo(c. h.) Pamlico 
 
 Bayview Onslow 
 
 Beach Spring Perquimans 
 
 Beamans Cr's Rouds.. Sampson 
 
 Beams Mills Cleveland 
 
 Bean Shoals Yadkin 
 
 Beard Cumberland 
 
 Bear Poplar Rowan 
 
 Bearwallow Henderson 
 
 Beattyville Cleveland 
 
 BEAUFORT (c. h) Carteret 
 
 Beaumont Chatham 
 
 Beavercreek Ashe 
 
 Beck Wake 
 
 Beckwith Beaufort 
 
 Beech Buncombe 
 
 Beechcreek Watauga 
 
 Bee Log Y^ancey 
 
 Begonia Gaston 
 
 Belcross Camden 
 
 Belewcreek Mills Forsyth 
 
 Belfast Davidson 
 
 Bell Buncombe 
 
 Bellair Craven 
 
 Belleport Beaufort 
 
 Belle voir Chat'..am 
 
 BELMONT Gaston 
 
 Beio Surry 
 
 BELViDERE Perquimans 
 
 nelvvuod Cleveland 
 
 Belzora Clay 
 
 Benaja Rockingham 
 
 Benham Wilkes 
 
 Hennett Anson 
 
 Beusalem Moore 
 
 BENSON Johnston 
 
 BeiiLley Alexander 
 
 Bentonville Johnston 
 
 Berea Granville 
 
 Berlin Ashe 
 
 Bernice Ashe 
 
 Berry Rockingham 
 
 Bessemer City Gaston 
 
 Bessie Jackson 
 
 Beston Wayne 
 
 Beta Jackson 
 
 Bethania Forsyth 
 
 Bethany Davidson 
 
 BETHEL Pitt 
 
 Beinel Hill Person 
 
 Bethlehem Hertford 
 
 Beulaville Duplin 
 
 Beverly' Anson 
 
 Biddleville Mecklenburg 
 
 Big Creek Stokes 
 
 Big Laurel Madison 
 
 Biglick Stanly 
 
 Bigoak Moore 
 
 Bigpine Madison 
 
 Bigridge Jackson 
 
 ligrock Granville 
 
 Bigspring Jackson 
 
 BILTMORE Buncombe 
 
 Birdtown Swain 
 
 Birta .*i. Pender 
 
 Bishop L?. Beaufort 
 
 Bismark Johnson 
 
 Bizzell Wayne 
 
 Blackburn Catawba 
 
 BLAOKCREEK Wilson 
 
 Blackjack Pitt 
 
 Blackmans Mills Sampson 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Blackmer Rowan 
 
 Blackmountain Buncombe 
 
 Blackstone Caldwell 
 
 Blackwells Caswell 
 
 Blackwood : Oiange 
 
 Bladenboro Bladen 
 
 Blaine Montgomery 
 
 Blakley Forsyth 
 
 Blanch Caswell 
 
 Blanchard Robeson 
 
 Bland Sampson 
 
 Blevens Ashe 
 
 Blink Moore 
 
 Bliss Surry 
 
 Bloomington Stanly 
 
 Blounts Creek Beaufort 
 
 BLOWING ROCK Watauga 
 
 Blueridge Henderson 
 
 Bluewing Granville 
 
 Bluff Madison 
 
 Bly Ashe 
 
 Boaz Chatham 
 
 Bobbitt Vance 
 
 Bogue Carteret 
 
 Boiling Springs Cleveland 
 
 Boilston Henderson 
 
 Bolivia Brunswick 
 
 Bolton Columbus 
 
 Bombay Randolph 
 
 Bonus Jones 
 
 Boomer Wilkes 
 
 BOONE (c h) Watauga 
 
 boonville Yadkin 
 
 Border Orange 
 
 Borum Camden 
 
 Bosley Gates 
 
 Bostic Rutherford 
 
 Bosticks Mills Richmond 
 
 Bosts Mills Cabarrus 
 
 Bowdens Duplin 
 
 Bower Forsyth 
 
 Bowies Creek Harnett 
 
 Bowles Wilkes 
 
 Bowmans Bluff Henderson 
 
 Bowmore Robeson 
 
 Boyd Rockingham 
 
 Boyer Alleghany 
 
 Boyett Wilson 
 
 Bradleys Store Harnett 
 
 Bradshaw Orange 
 
 Bragg Richmond 
 
 Branchs Store Duplin 
 
 Branch vllle Robeson 
 
 Branning Bertie 
 
 Brasstown Clay 
 
 Brayville Chatham 
 
 Breeze Orange 
 
 BREVARD (c. h.) ...Transylvania 
 
 Brickchurch Guilford 
 
 Bridgeport Stanly 
 
 Bridgewater Burke 
 
 Brief Union 
 
 Briercreek Wilkes 
 
 Briggsville Madison 
 
 Bright Polk 
 
 Brighton Mitchell 
 
 Brim Surry 
 
 Brindletown Burke 
 
 Bringles Davidson 
 
 Brinkland ...Bladen 
 
 Brinkleyville Halifax 
 
 Bristow Mecklenburg 
 
 Brittain Rutherford 
 
 Britts Robeson 
 
 Broad River McDowell 
 
 Broad Shoals Alexander 
 
 Broadway Moore 
 
 Brodie Warren 
 
 Brompton Bladen 
 
 Brooks Alleghany 
 
 Brookside Watauga 
 
 Brookston Vance 
 
 Brewers Mills Randolph 
 
 Brown Randolph 
 
 Brown Creek Union 
 
 Brown Mountain Stokes 
 
 Browns Summit Guilford 
 
 Brownsville Granville 
 
 Brummett Mitchell 
 
 Brunswick Randolph 
 
 Brunt Cumberland 
 
 Brushcreek Chatham 
 
 Brushy Mountain Wilkes 
 
 Bryant Chatham 
 
 Bryantown Northampton 
 
 Bryantsville Iredell 
 
 BRYSON CITY (c h.) Swain 
 
 Buchanan Granville 
 
 Buck Forest Transylvania 
 
 Buckhorn Cumberland 
 
 Buckner Madison 
 
 Buckshoal Yadkin 
 
 Bud Ashe 
 
 Buena Vista Buncombe 
 
 Buffalo City Dare 
 
 Buffalo Cove Caldwell 
 
 Buttaloford Randolph 
 
 Bughill Columbus 
 
 Buies Robeson 
 
 Bulla Randolph 
 
 Bullhead Greene 
 
 Bullock Granville 
 
 Bunch Randolph 
 
 Bunnlevel Harnett 
 
 Bunyon Beaufort 
 
 Burchani Wilkes 
 
 Burdelt Mecklenburg 
 
 BURGAW {c.h.) Pender 
 
 Burgess Perquimans 
 
 BURLINGTON • Alamance 
 
 LJuruingtown Macon 
 
 BURNSViLLE (c h.) Yancey 
 
 Busbee Buncombe 
 
 Bushnell Swain 
 
 Bushyfork Person 
 
 Butler Rutherford 
 
 Buxton Dare 
 
 Byarsville Cleveland 
 
 By num Chatham 
 
 Byrd Wilkes 
 
 Byrdsville Columbus 
 
 Cabin Duplin 
 
 Cadez Lenoir 
 
 Cagles Mill Montgomery 
 
 Cairo Anson 
 
 Calabash Brunswick 
 
 Calahaln Davie 
 
 Caldwell Institute .. . Orange 
 
 Cald wells Mecklenburg 
 
 Caledonia Moore 
 
 Calhoun Transylvania 
 
 Calico Pitt 
 
 California Creek ... Madison 
 
 Camden (c. h.) Camden 
 
 CAMERON Moore 
 
 Campoell Stokes 
 
 Campcall Cleveland 
 
 Campcreek Burke 
 
 CANA Davie 
 
 Candler Buncombe 
 
 CANDOR Montgomery 
 
 §Canecreek Chatham 
 
 Cane River Yancey 
 
 Canto Buncombe 
 
 CANTON Haywood 
 
 Cape Randolph 
 
 Capels Mills Richmond 
 
 Caraway Randolph 
 
 Carbonton Moore 
 
 Carl Montgomery 
 
 Carlisle Davidson 
 
 Carlos Cumberland 
 
 Carlton Vance 
 
 ^ armel Montgomery 
 
 Carpenter Gaston 
 
 Carr Orange 
 
 Carriers Springs ... Buncombe- 
 Carson Catawba 
 
 Uarsons Creek . . Transylvania 
 
 Carters Mills Moore 
 
 CARTHAGE (c. h.) Moore- 
 
 GARY Wake 
 
 Casar Cleveland 
 
 Cascade Guilford 
 
 Cases Rockingham 
 
 Cashiers Jackson 
 
 Cast alia Nash 
 
 Castle New Hanover 
 
 Castoria Greene 
 
 Cataloochee Haywood 
 
 CATAWBA Catawba 
 
 Gates Person 
 
 Cattish Catawba 
 
 Catharine Lake Onsiow 
 
 Cathey Jacksou 
 
 Caudills Johnston 
 
 Cavenaugh Duplin 
 
 Cedar Bladen 
 
 Cedai-cliff Alamance 
 
 Cedarcreek Cumberland 
 
 Cedarfalls Randolph 
 
 Cedargrove Orange 
 
 Cedarhill Anson 
 
 Cedar Mountain. Transylvania 
 
 Cedarpoint Carteret 
 
 Cedarrock Franklin 
 
 Cedarrun Alexander 
 
 Cedar Val ley Caldwell 
 
 CeHo Person 
 
 Celo Yancey 
 
 Center Guilford 
 
 Centergrove Person 
 
 Centerville Franklin 
 
 Central Falls Randolph 
 
 Cerrogordo Columbus 
 
 Chadbourn Columbus 
 
 Chafin Harnett 
 
 Chalklevel Harnett 
 
 Chambei's Burke 
 
 Chance Sampson 
 
 Chandler Montgomery 
 
 Chapanoke Perquimans 
 
 ^CHAPEL HILL Orange 
 
 Cnarity Yadkin 
 
 '•■■CHARLOTTE(c./i.).^[ecklenburg 
 
 Charm Robeson 
 
 Cnatham Surry 
 
 Cheeks Randolph 
 
 Cheoah Graham 
 
 Cherokee Swain 
 
 Cherryfield Transylvania 
 
 Cherrygrove Caswell 
 
 Cherryiane Alleghany 
 
 Cherrypoint Craven 
 
 CHERRYVILLE GastOn 
 
 Cheslertield Burke 
 
 Chestnut Catawba 
 
 Chestnut Ridge Yadkm 
 
 Chiloe Moore 
 
 ChimLcy Rock . ..Rutherfoid 
 
 CHINA GROVE Rowan 
 
 Chinquapin Duplin 
 
 CHOCOWiNiTY Beaufort 
 
 (Uironirle Catawba 
 
 Chublake Person 
 
 Churchill ... Warren 
 
 Churchland Davidson 
 
 Cid Davidson 
 
 Cisco Chowan 
 
 City Alleghany 
 
 Clara Stokes 
 
 CLAREMONT Catawba 
 
 Clarendon Columbus 
 
 Clark Craven 
 
 Clarks Mills Moore 
 
 CLARKTON Bladen 
 
 Clay Granville- 
 Clay fork Cumberland 
 
 Clayroot Pitt 
 
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 CLAYTON- 
 
 .Johnston 
 
 Clearcreek Cabarrus 
 
 Clearrun Sampson 
 
 Clement Sampson 
 
 Clemmonsville For&ylh 
 
 Cleone Union 
 
 Cleveland Kowan 
 
 Cleveland Mills Cleveland 
 
 Clilfdale Rutherford 
 
 Clilford Rutherford 
 
 Clifton Ashe 
 
 Clifton ville Wilson 
 
 Climax . Guilford 
 
 Clinf,Mnan Wdkes 
 
 CLINTON (c. /I.) Sampson 
 
 (jlio Iredell 
 
 Clo^s Lenoir 
 
 Clotho Transylvania 
 
 Cloudland Mitchell 
 
 Cluster Mecklenbura: 
 
 Clover I'oik 
 
 Clover Orchard Alamance 
 
 CLYDE Haywood 
 
 Co h ma Lonoir 
 
 Coaklev Edgecombe 
 
 Coalville Cherokee 
 
 Cobbs ■ Cherokee 
 
 Coburns Store Union 
 
 Cochrum Yadkm 
 
 Coddle Cabarrus 
 
 Cody Surry 
 
 Coffer Moore 
 
 Cogdell ... . Wayne 
 
 Coharie Sampson 
 
 Cuhooque Craven 
 
 COIN JOCK Currituck 
 
 Cukes ....Vance 
 
 Coleman Columbus 
 
 COLERAIN • • • -^.^^^'^ 
 
 Coleridge Randol ph 
 
 Coles Store Randolph 
 
 COLFAX Guilford 
 
 Colington — Dare 
 
 Collettsville Caldwell 
 
 Coilinsville Polk 
 
 Colly Bladen 
 
 Colon Chatham 
 
 COLUMBIA (c. h.) Tyrrell 
 
 COLUMBUS (c. h.) Polk 
 
 Comet Asne 
 
 Comfort Jones 
 
 Como Hertford 
 
 Company Mills Guilford 
 
 Concert Ashe 
 
 Conclave Richmond 
 
 CONCORD (c.h.) Cabarrus 
 
 CONETOE-.--- Edgecombe 
 
 CONNELLYS SPRINGS Blirke 
 
 Connijr Wilscn 
 
 Conoho Mai tin 
 
 CONOVER Catawba 
 
 Conrads Yadkin 
 
 Contentnea Green 
 
 Conway Northampton 
 
 Cook Cata wba 
 
 Cool Spring Iredell 
 
 Cooper Cumberland 
 
 Copalgrove Stanly 
 
 Copeland Surry 
 
 CORA Caldwell 
 
 Corapeake. Gates 
 
 Corbett Caswell 
 
 Corine Dupiin 
 
 Corinth Chatham 
 
 Cornatzer Davie 
 
 Cornelia Cumberland 
 
 Cornwall Granville 
 
 Corolla Currituck 
 
 Costner Gaston 
 
 Cottonville Stanly 
 
 Cottonw. od . Mecklenburg 
 
 Councils Station Bladen 
 
 Ck)untyline Davie 
 
 Cove Craven 
 
 Covecreek Hay wood 
 
 Covington Riclimond 
 
 Cowans Ford.. ..Mecklenburg 
 
 Cowarts Jackson 
 
 Coxville Pitt 
 
 Cozart Granville 
 
 Crabtree Haywood 
 
 Craig McDowell 
 
 Cranberry Mitchell 
 
 Craters Forsyth 
 
 Craven Rowan 
 
 Crawford Macon 
 
 Creedmoor Granville 
 
 Creek Warren 
 
 Creeksville Nortiiampton 
 
 gCreston Ashe 
 
 CRESWELL Washington 
 
 Cricket Wilkes 
 
 Crimsic Lincoln 
 
 Crisp Edgecombe 
 
 Croatan Craven 
 
 CIrocker Cleveland 
 
 Croft Mecklenburg 
 
 Cromartie Robeson 
 
 CRONLY Columbtis 
 
 Crooms Columbus 
 
 Crossnore Mitchell 
 
 Crc ssroads Church . . . . Y'adkin 
 
 Crossrock Madison 
 
 Crouse Lincoln 
 
 Crow Ashe 
 
 Crowders Creek Gaston 
 
 Crowells Halifax 
 
 Grumpier Ashe 
 
 Cruso Haywood 
 
 Crutchfield Surry 
 
 Crvrital Guilford 
 
 Cuba Rutherford 
 
 CULBERSON Cherokee 
 
 Culbreth Granville 
 
 Cullasaja Macon 
 
 CULLER Stokes 
 
 Cuilowhee Jackson 
 
 Cumberland Cumberland 
 
 Cumnock Chatham 
 
 Cunningham Person 
 
 Currie Pender 
 
 Curriersville Moore 
 
 Currituck {c. h.) Currituck 
 
 Curtis Alamance 
 
 Cypresscreek Bladen 
 
 C>rus Onslow 
 
 Dabney Vance 
 
 Daisy Forsyth 
 
 Dale Surry 
 
 Dalila Sampson 
 
 DALLAS (c. /t.) Gaston 
 
 DALTON , • . -stokes 
 
 Dana Henderson 
 
 Danamora Guilford 
 
 DANBURY (C. /I.) StokeS 
 
 imuriver Stokes 
 
 § Danville Guilford 
 
 bdrby Wilkes 
 
 Dardens Martin 
 
 Darfer Cleveland 
 
 Darkridge Watauga 
 
 Darlington Rutherford 
 
 Paughton Pender 
 
 Davenport Mecklenburg 
 
 DAVIDSON Mecklenburg 
 
 Davidsons River.Transylvauia 
 
 Davis Carteret 
 
 Dawson Halifax 
 
 Dawsons Landing Bladen 
 
 Daybook Yancey 
 
 Davion Durham 
 
 Dealville Alexander 
 
 Dean Granville 
 
 Debruhls Craven 
 
 Decatur Po k 
 
 Deckhill W^atauga 
 
 Deepcreek Anson 
 
 Deepriver Guilford 
 
 Deeprun Lenoir 
 
 Dcerlield Watauga 
 
 Defiance Randolph 
 
 D^hart , Wilkes 
 
 Del ght Cleveland 
 
 Delk Stokes 
 
 Dellaplane Wilkes^ 
 
 Dellinger Ceveland 
 
 Dellwood.. Haywood 
 
 Delmont Henderson 
 
 Delos Mecklenburg 
 
 Delta Sampson 
 
 Demming McDowell 
 
 Democrat Buncombe 
 
 Dennaark Buncombe 
 
 §Dtnnvsville Guilford 
 
 Dentoii Davidson 
 
 ?Denver Lincoln 
 
 Depew Cleveland 
 
 Derita Mecklenburg 
 
 Deron Surry 
 
 Derr Lincoln 
 
 Mevotion , Surry 
 
 Dewitt Henderson 
 
 Dexter Granville 
 
 Dial Cumberland 
 
 Diamond Hill Anson 
 
 Dickinson Harnett 
 
 IMggs Richmond 
 
 Dillard Stokes 
 
 Dillingham Buncombe 
 
 Dills McDowell 
 
 DiLLSBORO Jackson 
 
 Dimsdale Polk 
 
 Dismal Sampson 
 
 Dixie Mecklenburg 
 
 Dixon Onslow 
 
 Dobag Yancey 
 
 DobbersviUe Wayne 
 
 DOBSON (c. h.) ;;S.^r^ 
 
 Dockery Wilkes 
 
 Dockervs Store Bichmoi.d 
 
 Doehead Edgecomb 
 
 Dogwood Burke 
 
 Dolph Dupliu 
 
 Dongola Pitt 
 
 Donnoha Forsyth 
 
 Doolie Iredell 
 
 Doomore Columbia 
 
 Dor-ey Swam 
 
 Dort Gates 
 
 Dosier Forsyth 
 
 Dothan Columbus 
 
 Doubleshoal Cleveland 
 
 Douglas Rockingham 
 
 Dover Craven 
 
 Dowd - Stanly 
 
 Downingville Bladen 
 
 Downsville Caldwell 
 
 Draco Caldwell 
 
 Dresden Ashe 
 
 Drew Bertie 
 
 Drumhill Gates 
 
 Drumsville Catawba 
 
 Drycreek Montgomery 
 
 Drvs Mill Cabarrus 
 
 DrVwells Nash 
 
 Dublin Bladen 
 
 Duckcreek Onslow 
 
 Dudley Wayne 
 
 Dukes Nash 
 
 Dulins Davie 
 
 Duncan Rutherford 
 
 Duulap Iredell 
 
 DUNN Harnett 
 
 Dunsmore Buncombe 
 
 Durants Neck Perquimans 
 
 Durbro Cleveland 
 
 -DURHAM (c. h.) Durham 
 
 Durhams Creek Beaufort 
 
 Dutchcove Haywood 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A. HANDBOOK. 
 
 Dutchman Davie 
 
 Dutchville Granville 
 
 Dwight Perquimans 
 
 Dvsou Ashe 
 
 Dvsortville McDowell 
 
 Eagle Iredell 
 
 Eaglerock Wake 
 
 Eaglesprings Moore 
 
 Eagletown Northampton 
 
 Earl Cleveland 
 
 Earlevs Hertford 
 
 Earps'boro Johnston 
 
 EASTBEND Yadkin 
 
 Kast Durham Durham 
 
 Ea-tfield Mecklenburg 
 
 Eastfork Transylvania 
 
 East'ake Dare 
 
 Eastland Caswell 
 
 East Laport Jackson 
 
 Eatmon Nash 
 
 Echo, Robeson 
 
 Ecusta Traus.vlvania 
 
 Eden Randolph 
 
 EDENTON (c. h.) Chowau 
 
 Edgar Randolph 
 
 Edge Bladtn 
 
 Edith Catawba 
 
 Edmonds Alleghany 
 
 Edneyville Henderson 
 
 Edonia Cumberland 
 
 Edward Beaufort 
 
 Edwards Crossroads 
 
 Alleghany 
 
 Edwardsvllle burry 
 
 Effie Jackson 
 
 Eifards Mills Stanly 
 
 Efland Orange 
 
 E,i;gtown Anson 
 
 Elams Warren 
 
 Elbaville Davie 
 
 Elbethel Cleveland 
 
 Elbow Columbus 
 
 Eldorado Montgomery 
 
 E et-zer Randolph 
 
 Elevation Johnston 
 
 Elf Clay 
 
 Eli Rowan 
 
 Elisha Pasquotank 
 
 ELIZABETH CITy(C'/0 
 
 Pasquotank 
 
 ELIZABETHTOWN (C f> .) ..BladCU 
 
 Elkcreek Alkghany 
 
 ELKiN f^^urry 
 
 Elko Stokes 
 
 ELKPARK Mitchell 
 
 i^lk Shoals Alexander 
 
 Elkton Bladen 
 
 Elkville Wilkes 
 
 Ella Hayward 
 
 •ELLENBORO Ruthorford 
 
 ElUndale Alexander 
 
 Ellerbe R chmond 
 
 Ellijay , Macon 
 
 Elliot Sampson 
 
 Ellis Bladen 
 
 ELM CITY Wilson 
 
 Elmer Yancey 
 
 Elmgrove Chatham 
 
 Elmore Richmond 
 
 Elmville Chatham 
 
 Elmwood Iredell 
 
 ELON COLLEGE AlamaBce 
 
 Elpaso Brunswick 
 
 Elrod Robeson 
 
 Elroy Wayne 
 
 Elsie Mitchell 
 
 Emanuel Caldwell 
 
 Embro Warren 
 
 Emerson Bladen 
 
 Emit Johnson 
 
 Emma .^ Buncombe 
 
 Empire 1.."! Randolph 
 
 Eudicott Montgomery 
 
 ENFIELD Halifax 
 
 Engelhard Hyde 
 
 p]nglish Madison 
 
 Ennice Alleghany 
 
 Hduo Wake 
 
 Enochville Rowan 
 
 Euola Burke 
 
 Enterprise Davidson 
 
 Eoka Columbus 
 
 Epbesiis Davie 
 
 Epsom Vance 
 
 Ep worth Edgecombe 
 
 Erastus. Jicksou 
 
 p^rect Randolph 
 
 Erie Mills Montgomery 
 
 Ernul Craven 
 
 Essex Halifax 
 
 Estatoe Mitchell 
 
 Estelle Caswell 
 
 Ether xMontgomery 
 
 Etna Macon 
 
 Eugene Ashe 
 
 Eupeptic .-springs Iredell 
 
 Euphrouia Moore 
 
 Eure Gates 
 
 Eureka Wayne 
 
 Euto Union 
 
 E^-a Perquimans 
 
 Evalin Iredell 
 
 Evans Chatham 
 
 Evansville Brrtie 
 
 EVERETTS Martin 
 
 Evergreen Columbus 
 
 Ewart Buncombe 
 
 Ewing Wake 
 
 Excelsior Brunswick 
 
 Exter Bertie 
 
 Exum Brunswick 
 
 Eye Ashe 
 
 Ezra Johnston 
 
 Facerock Buncombe 
 
 Factory Rutherford 
 
 FAIRBLUFF ColumbUS 
 
 P'airlax Graham 
 
 FAIRFIELD Hyde 
 
 Fairgrove Davidson 
 
 Fair Haven Moore 
 
 Fairlys Richmond 
 
 Fairmont Davidson 
 
 Fairplain Wilkes 
 
 FAiRViEW Buncombe 
 
 FAisoN Duplin 
 
 Faitn Rowan 
 
 Falcon Cumberland 
 
 Falkland Piit 
 
 Fallcliff Jackson 
 
 Fallcreek Chatham 
 
 Falling Creek Lenoir 
 
 Falls..7. Wake 
 
 Fallston , Cleveland 
 
 Fancy Cleveland 
 
 Fancy Hill Iredell 
 
 Fannie Haywood 
 
 Farmer Randolph 
 
 Farmington Davie 
 
 FARMVILLE •■• Pitt 
 
 Faro Wayne 
 
 Faucett Orange 
 
 Faulk Union 
 
 Fauna Pasquotank 
 
 Faust Madison 
 
 *FAYETTEVILLE (C h.) 
 
 Cumberland 
 
 Felix Davie 
 
 Felts Wilkes 
 
 Fennimore Mecklenburg 
 
 Ferguson Haywood 
 
 Ferndale Rockingham 
 
 Fernhurst Jackson 
 
 Ferry Rutherford 
 
 Fidelity 'Jackson 
 
 Fieldboro Greene 
 
 Fields Lenoir 
 
 Fig Ashe 
 
 Filmore Wi's.n 
 
 File Montgomery- 
 Finch Nash 
 
 Firescreek Haywood 
 
 Fitiper Stanly 
 
 Fir*stbroad Rutherford 
 
 Fishcreek Harnett 
 
 Fishdam C7... Durham 
 
 Fi-htop Polk 
 
 Fitch Caswell 
 
 Fitts Warren 
 
 Flatcreek Buncombe 
 
 Flat River Durham 
 
 FLATROCK Hender.-on 
 
 Flats Macon 
 
 Flatshoal Surry 
 
 gFieming Catawba 
 
 FLETCHER Hcuderson 
 
 Flint Wake 
 
 Flinty Yancey 
 
 Flora Randolph 
 
 Floral College Robeson 
 
 Florence Pamlico 
 
 Florian Anson 
 
 Flowerhill Randolph 
 
 Flows Cabarrus 
 
 Flox Onslow 
 
 Floyd Cumberland 
 
 Fly Montgomery 
 
 Flynn Moore 
 
 Folsom Bladen 
 
 F'onta Flora Burke 
 
 Fontcol Richmond 
 
 Footville Yadkin 
 
 Forbush Yadkin 
 
 Ford Stanly 
 
 FOREST CITY Ruthcrford 
 
 Forestville Wake 
 
 Forge Surry 
 
 Forkade Moore 
 
 ^Forkchurch Davie 
 
 Forkcreek Randolph 
 
 F^orks of Pigeon Havwood 
 
 Forneys Caeek Swain 
 
 FORT BARNWELL Craven 
 
 Fort Landing Tyrrell 
 
 Fescoe Watauga 
 
 Foster Person 
 
 F'ountain Hi 1 Greene 
 
 FOUROAKS Johnston 
 
 Fou'its Mills Randolph 
 
 Fowle Jones 
 
 FoxviUe Buncombe 
 
 Francisco Stokts 
 
 Frank Mitchell 
 
 FRANKLIN ' C. h.) MaCOH 
 
 FRANKLiNTON Frankhn 
 
 FRANKLiNviLLE Randolph 
 
 Freemans Mills ...builford 
 
 FREMONT Wayne 
 
 Friedberg Davidson 
 
 Friendship Guilford 
 
 Friezeland Madison 
 
 Fruitland Henderson 
 
 Fr^ Anson 
 
 Fullers Randolph 
 
 Fulmore. Robeson 
 
 Fulp Stokes 
 
 Fulton Davie 
 
 FURCHES Ashe 
 
 Furrs Cabarrus 
 
 Gaddysville Robeson 
 
 Galloway Transylvania 
 
 Galveston I'Urham 
 
 Gambles Store Rutherford 
 
 Gamewell Caldwell 
 
 Gaunaway Caswell 
 
 Gapcreek Ashe 
 
 Garden City McDowell 
 
 Gardencrcek Haywood 
 
 Gardnerville ,. Pitt 
 
 Garfield L. Rowan 
 
 '-arland Sampson 
 
 Garmond Cabairus 
 
 Garner Wake 
 
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 43 
 
 ■Garnett Rutherford 
 
 <3ARYSBURG Northampton 
 
 GASTONIA <J- i^ton 
 
 gatesville(c. Ji.) Gates 
 
 <jratf\vood * Caswell 
 
 Gath Orange 
 
 Gaylord Beaufort 
 
 Gem Buncombe 
 
 Geneva Rockingham 
 
 Genoa Wayne 
 
 -Gentry Rockingham 
 
 Georgetown Jackson 
 
 Georgeville Cabarrus 
 
 GERMANTOWN Stokes 
 
 Geihsemane Edgecombe 
 
 Ghio Richmond 
 
 Gibbs Burke 
 
 Gibralter Iinion 
 
 Gibsons Mills Richmond 
 
 GIBSONS STATION •• Richmond 
 
 GiBSONViLLE Guilford 
 
 Gilt Johnston 
 
 Gilbert Moore 
 
 Gilead Beaufort 
 
 Giles Mills S impson 
 
 Gilkey Rutherford 
 
 Gillburg Vance 
 
 Gillisville Cumberland 
 
 "Gilmers Store Guilford 
 
 Gilreaih Wilkes 
 
 Glfcdecreek ...' Alleghany 
 
 Gladesboro Randolph 
 
 Gladstone Stanly 
 
 Glady Buncombe 
 
 Glenaloon Chatham 
 
 gGleu Alpine Burke 
 
 Glen Ayre Mitchell 
 
 Glenbrook Montgomery 
 
 Glenburnie Caldwell 
 
 Glendale Alamance 
 
 Glendon Moore 
 
 Glenfield Greene 
 
 Glenmore Johnston 
 
 Gknola Randolph 
 
 Glenview .Halifax 
 
 ■Glenville Jackson 
 
 Glen wood Johnston 
 
 Gliden Chowan 
 
 ■Globe Caldwell 
 
 Glover Nash 
 
 Godw^iu Cumberland 
 
 •Goff Chatham 
 
 Golden Rutherford 
 
 GOLDHiLL Rowan 
 
 Goldknob Rowan 
 
 Goldpoiut Martin 
 
 <301drock Nash 
 
 *GOLDSBORO (c h.) Wayne 
 
 Goldston Chatham 
 
 Good Chatham 
 
 •Goodman Anson 
 
 Good Spring fcurry 
 
 Goodwill Forsyth 
 
 Gordonton Person 
 
 Gorman Durham 
 
 •Goshen Wilkes 
 
 Gould Gaston 
 
 Govern Cabairus 
 
 Governor Island Swain 
 
 Grace Buncombe 
 
 ■Grade Alexander 
 
 Grady Robesou 
 
 Gragg Caldwell 
 
 ■GRAHAM (c. h.) Alamance 
 
 Grangers Lenoir 
 
 -Grandfather Watauga 
 
 Grange Transylvania 
 
 <3RANITE FALLS C'aldwell 
 
 dranite Hill Iredell 
 
 Grantham Wayne 
 
 Grantsboro ,,.;... Pamlico 
 
 Grantville Buncombe 
 
 ■Grapecreek Cherokee 
 
 Grapevine Madison 
 
 Grassycreek Ashe 
 
 Grat-syknob Rutherford 
 
 Gravelhlll Bladen 
 
 Gravelspring Chatham 
 
 Gray Alleghany 
 
 Gray beat Ashe 
 
 Grayehapel Randolph 
 
 Grayscreek Cumberland 
 
 Grayson Ashe 
 
 Greenback Warren 
 
 Greenhill Rutherford 
 
 (ireet)leaf Wayne 
 
 Greenlees McDowell 
 
 Green Mountain Yancey 
 
 Greetipark Watauga 
 
 Greenriver Polk 
 
 ^GREENSBORO {C.h.).. Gullfoid 
 GREENVILLE (C. k.) Pitt 
 
 Greenwood Moore 
 
 Greer Watauga 
 
 Gregory Curiituck 
 
 Greystone Vance 
 
 Griliiih Mecklenburg 
 
 GRIFTON fil^t 
 
 Grigsby Ashe 
 
 Grimesland Pitt 
 
 Grimsley Ashe 
 
 (jrindool Pitt 
 
 Grissom Granville 
 
 Grists Columbus 
 
 Grit Pender 
 
 gGrogansville Rockingham 
 
 Grotto Moore 
 
 Grove Chatham 
 
 Grovehill Warren 
 
 GROVER Cleveland 
 
 Gudger Tyrrell 
 
 Gudgers Mills buncombe 
 
 GUILFORD COLLEGE • • • Guilford 
 
 Gulf Chatham 
 
 Gulleys Mill Wake 
 
 Gumberry Northampton 
 
 Gam branch Onflow 
 
 Gumneck Tyrrell 
 
 Gunpowder Caldwell 
 
 Guy Cherokee 
 
 Gu;> ton Bladen 
 
 Gypsy.. Henderson 
 
 Hackney Chatham 
 
 Haddock Columbus 
 
 Hadley Chatham 
 
 Hagers Lincoln 
 
 Hale Mitchell 
 
 Halewood Madison 
 
 HALIFAX (c. h.) Hahfax 
 
 Hailsboro Columbus 
 
 Halls Ferry Davie 
 
 Halls Mills Wilk.'s 
 
 Hallsville Duplin 
 
 Ham Bladen 
 
 Hamer Caswell 
 
 HAMILTON Martin 
 
 HAMLET Richmond 
 
 Hampton Granville 
 
 Hamptonville Yadkin 
 
 Hamric... Rutherford 
 
 Handy Davidson 
 
 Hanes Davidson 
 
 Hanging Dog Cherokt e 
 
 Hannersville Davidson 
 
 Harbinger Currituck 
 
 Hardbank Stokes 
 
 Hardeesville Greene 
 
 Harden Gaston 
 
 Hargrove Granville 
 
 Harley Wilkes 
 
 Harlowe Carteret 
 
 Harman Watauga 
 
 Harmony Iredell 
 
 Harper Johnston 
 
 Harpers Crossroads. Chatham 
 Harrels Store San pson 
 
 HARRELLSViLLE Hertford 
 
 Hanellion Surry 
 
 Harrington. Harnett 
 
 Harrisburg Cabarrus 
 
 Harris Mine Jackson 
 
 Harrison Mecklenburg 
 
 Harrison Creek Pender 
 
 Harrisville Montgomery 
 
 Hartland Caldwell 
 
 Harts Rowan 
 
 Hartshorn Alamance 
 
 Hartsville Wake 
 
 Harvey .. Lincoln 
 
 Haslin . Beaufort 
 
 Hassell Martin 
 
 HASTY Richmond 
 
 Hatteras Dare 
 
 Hattie VVatauga 
 
 Havelock Craven 
 
 Hawleys Store Sampson 
 
 HAWRivER Alamance 
 
 HAYESVILLE (C /(.) (Hay 
 
 Hay iVjeadow Wilkes 
 
 Hayne Sampson 
 
 Hayseed Catawba 
 
 Haystack Surry 
 
 Haywood Cbatham 
 
 Healing Springs Davidson 
 
 Heath Union 
 
 Heathsville Halifax 
 
 Hebron Mecklenburg 
 
 Hedrick Alexander 
 
 Heflin Nash 
 
 Heilig Rowan 
 
 Helton Ashe 
 
 HENDERSON {c h ) Vance 
 
 HENDERSONVILLE (c. h.) 
 
 Henderson 
 
 Hendrix Wilkes 
 
 HENRIETTA Rutherford 
 
 Henry Lincoln 
 
 Hensley Yancey 
 
 Htra Transylvania 
 
 Hermitage Ashe 
 
 Herrell Mitchell 
 
 Herring Sampson 
 
 HERTFORD (c h.) ...Perquimaus 
 
 He-ter branville 
 
 Hesters Store Person 
 
 Hewitts Swain 
 
 Hexlena Bertie 
 
 Hibriten Caldwell 
 
 HICKORY Catawba 
 
 Hickory Grove Wake 
 
 Hicksville Rutherf<ird 
 
 Hiddenite ...Alexander 
 
 Higdonville '. Macon 
 
 Higgins Yancey 
 
 JHighgate Alleghany 
 
 '•'HIGHLANDS Macon 
 
 HiGHPOiNT Guilford 
 
 High towers Caswell 
 
 High view Person 
 
 Hill Pitt 
 
 Hillgirt Henderson 
 
 Hilliardston Nash 
 
 HiLLSBORO (c. h.) Orange 
 
 Hillsdale Guilford 
 
 Hills Store Randolph 
 
 Hi 1 top Stokes 
 
 Hinton Guilford 
 
 Hives Sampson 
 
 Hiwassee Cherokee 
 
 Hobbsville Gates 
 
 Hobgood Halifax 
 
 Hobton Sampson 
 
 Hobucken Pamlico 
 
 Hocut Bladen 
 
 Hodge Cleveland 
 
 HOFFMAN Richmond 
 
 Hogan Rockingham 
 
 Hogback Valley..Transylvania 
 Hollands Pitt 
 
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 Hollis Rutherford 
 
 Holloway Person 
 
 Hollow Poplar Mitchell 
 
 Hollybush....f Cleveland 
 
 Hollyridge „ Onslow 
 
 Holly Springs Wake 
 
 Hollywood Carteret 
 
 Hoi man Davie 
 
 Holmans Mills Alamance 
 
 Holselaw Alexander 
 
 Holt Guilford 
 
 HOMESTEAD Graham 
 
 Homioy Creek Buncombe 
 
 Honey Union 
 
 Hoods Mecklenburg- 
 Hooker Alleghany 
 
 Hookerton Greene 
 
 Hooverhill Randolph 
 
 Hope Union 
 
 HOPE MILLS Cumberland 
 
 Hopewell Mecklenburg 
 
 Hopkins Davidson 
 
 Hopper Rockingham 
 
 Horners Moore 
 
 Hornet Mecklenburg 
 
 Horseshoe Henderson 
 
 Hothouse Cherokee 
 
 HOT SPRINGS Madison 
 
 Houck Caldwell 
 
 House Pitt 
 
 Housetonviil*^ Iredell 
 
 Howard Bertie 
 
 Howellsville Robeson 
 
 Hoyle Randolph 
 
 HUB Columbus 
 
 Hubert , Onslow 
 
 Hudson Caldwell 
 
 Hugo Lenoir 
 
 Huds Crossroads Lincoln 
 
 Hulon Forsyth 
 
 Humphrey Duplin 
 
 Hunters Bridge Beaufort 
 
 HUNTERSViLLE Mecklenburg 
 
 i-iuntmgcr^ek , Wilkes 
 
 Huntley Sampson 
 
 Hunts Nash 
 
 Huntsville Yadkin 
 
 Hurdle Mills Person 
 
 Husk Ashe 
 
 Hyatt Anson 
 
 Hycotee Caswell 
 
 Idaho Cumberland 
 
 Idalia Beaufort 
 
 Idle wild Ashe 
 
 Idol Ashe 
 
 Ilex Davidson 
 
 Inanda Buncombe 
 
 Indiantown Camden 
 
 Indian trail Union 
 
 Inez Warren 
 
 Ingalls Mitchell 
 
 Inglcside Franklin 
 
 Ingold Sampson 
 
 Ingram Northampton 
 
 Ink Wilkes 
 
 Inland Moore 
 
 Institute Lenoir 
 
 Inverness Cumberland 
 
 Ionia Robeson 
 
 Ira Wilkes 
 
 Iredell Brunswick 
 
 Ironduft Haywood 
 
 Ironhill Columbus 
 
 IRON STATION Lincoln 
 
 Irvin Transylvania 
 
 Islandford Rutherford 
 
 Ita Halifax 
 
 Itiner... Johnston 
 
 Itom Rutherford 
 
 Ivanhoe Sampson 
 
 lyv Madison 
 
 Jackdaw Stanly 
 
 JACKSON (c./t.) ....Northampton 
 
 Jacksonhi'l Davidson 
 
 Jacksons Creek Randolph 
 
 Jacksons l^^prings Moore 
 
 JACKSONVILLE vC h.) . . Onslow 
 
 Jacobs Fork Catawba 
 
 Jacocks Perquimans 
 
 James City Craven 
 
 JAMESTOWN Guilford 
 
 JAMESViLLE Martin 
 
 Jarretts Swaiu 
 
 JARViSBURG Currituck 
 
 Jason Greene 
 
 Jasper Craven 
 
 JEFFERSON (C. h.) Ashe 
 
 Jennings Iredell 
 
 Jeptha Transylvania 
 
 Jerome Bladen 
 
 Jeiusalem Davie 
 
 Jessamine Beaufoit 
 
 Jesup Moore 
 
 Jewel Stokes 
 
 Jimes Davidson 
 
 Joe Madison 
 
 Joford ...Duplin 
 
 Johnson Graham 
 
 Johnsons Mills Pitt 
 
 John Station Richmond 
 
 Johnstown Lincoln 
 
 Jolliet Forsyth 
 
 Jonas Ridge Burke 
 
 Jonathan Haywood 
 
 JONESBORO Moore 
 
 Junescreek Anson 
 
 Jonesmine Davidson 
 
 Jones ville Yadkin 
 
 Joppa Orange 
 
 Joy Burke 
 
 Joynes Wilkes 
 
 Jubilee Davidson 
 
 Judith Union 
 
 Judson Swain 
 
 Jugtown Catawba 
 
 Julian Guilford 
 
 Jumbo Caldwell 
 
 Juno Buncombe 
 
 Jupiter .. Buncombe 
 
 Justice Franklin 
 
 Kadar Wake 
 
 Kappa Davie 
 
 Kapps Mill Surry 
 
 Kates viUe Franklin 
 
 Kawana Mitchell 
 
 Keener Sampson 
 
 Kehukee Pasquotank 
 
 Keith Pender 
 
 Kelford Bertie 
 
 Kelly Bladen 
 
 Kelsy Watauga 
 
 Kelvingrove Wake 
 
 Kemps Mills Randolph 
 
 KENANSVILLE (C. Jl.) Duplin 
 
 Kenda! Wilkes 
 
 KENLY Johnston 
 
 KERNERSVILLE Forsyth 
 
 Kerr Sampson 
 
 Keishaw Pamlico 
 
 Key Harnett 
 
 KEYSER Moore 
 
 Kidsville Lincoln 
 
 Kiger Stokes 
 
 Kilby Alexander 
 
 Kildee Randolph 
 
 Kiiiibohon Chatham 
 
 Kimesville Guilford 
 
 Kind Madison 
 
 King Stokes 
 
 Kingscreek Caldwell 
 
 KINGS MOUNTAIN Cleveland 
 
 KingviUe , Columbus 
 
 Kingwood Mecklenburg 
 
 Kinnon Cumberland 
 
 Kinsey Cherokee 
 
 KINSTON (e. h.) Lenoir 
 
 Kitchin Halifax 
 
 KiTTRELL Vance 
 
 Kitty Hawk Corrituck; 
 
 Kluits Cabarrus 
 
 Knap of Reeds Granville- 
 
 Knobcreek -....Cleveland 
 
 Knoll f* Macon 
 
 Knotts Island Currituck 
 
 Knotts Store .Ansoa 
 
 Knottville Wilkes 
 
 Kyles Landing. ...Cumberland 
 
 Lacey Alamance 
 
 Lackey Alexander 
 
 Lacrosse. Guilford 
 
 Ladonia Surry 
 
 LAGRANGE Lenoir 
 
 Lake Comfort Hyde 
 
 Lake Landing Hyde 
 
 Lake Waccamaw Columbus- 
 Lamar Ashe- 
 
 Lambsville Chatham 
 
 Lamm Wilson 
 
 Lamont Guilford 
 
 Lancaster Edgecombe 
 
 Lanes Creek Union 
 
 Langdom Rockingham 
 
 Langlfy Pitt 
 
 Lanier Onslow 
 
 Lansing Ashe 
 
 Lark Cleveland 
 
 Lasker Northampton 
 
 Lassiter Randf Iph 
 
 Latham Beauf rt 
 
 Latimore Cleveland 
 
 Laurel Franklin 
 
 Laurelblutf Surry 
 
 Laurelbranch Alleghany 
 
 LAURELHiLL ...Richmoud 
 
 Laurelsprings Alleghany 
 
 Laurelton Madison 
 
 LAURiNBURG Richmond 
 
 Lavinia Haywood 
 
 Lawhon Moore 
 
 Lawndale Cleveland 
 
 Lawrence Edgecombe 
 
 Laws Orange 
 
 Lavvson ville Rockingham 
 
 Lay ton Rockingham 
 
 Leachburg Johnston 
 
 Lead Henderson 
 
 Leading Cabarrus 
 
 Leaflet Harnett 
 
 LEAKSviLLE Rockirgham 
 
 Leander Watauga 
 
 Leasburg Caswell 
 
 Leatherman Macon 
 
 Leavitt Cumberland 
 
 Lebanon Columbus 
 
 Ledford Clay 
 
 Ledger Mitchell 
 
 Lee Madis >n 
 
 Leechville Beaufort 
 
 Leesville Robeson 
 
 Leewood Chatham 
 
 Legal Harnett 
 
 Leggett Edgecombe 
 
 Lego Guilford 
 
 Leicester Buncombe 
 
 Lemay Wake 
 
 Lemon Springs Moore 
 
 LENOIR (c /' ) Caldwell 
 
 Lenox L'a<-t!e Rockingham 
 
 Lentz Kowan 
 
 Leo Stanly 
 
 Leon Duplin 
 
 Leonard Madison 
 
 Leota Chathim 
 
 Leroy Columbus 
 
 Letha Franklin 
 
 Letitia •. Cterokee 
 
 Levelcross Randolph 
 
 Levelplains Randolph 
 
 Levi ....Davidsoii 
 
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 Lewisfork Wilkes 
 
 ILEWISTON "•^^''^H^ 
 
 LtvviKville l^orsyth 
 
 1.EXINGTON (c. /i.) Davidson 
 
 1.IBERTY Randolph 
 
 Liberty Store Guiliord 
 
 Light - -^ Davidson 
 
 Lilac Davidson 
 
 LILESVILLE.' AnSOlt 
 
 Lillingion (c. h.) Ilarnen 
 
 I^illy Camden 
 
 Lima'.'.".' Craven 
 
 Limeroek Stokes 
 
 Limestone Buncombe 
 
 LINCOLNTON (C h.) UnCOlll 
 
 Linden Harnett 
 
 Liudhurst Chatham 
 
 Lindsay Orange 
 
 Line Rutheriord 
 
 Lineback Mitchell 
 
 Linney Ashe 
 
 LiNViLLE Mitchell 
 
 J.invilles Store Burke 
 
 Linwood Davidson 
 
 Lipe Rowan 
 
 Lisbon Sampson 
 
 Lisk Rowan 
 
 Lissa Sampson 
 
 Littlecreek Madison 
 
 Littlelield Pitt 
 
 Little Pinecreek Madison 
 
 Little River Alexander 
 
 Little River Academy 
 
 Cumberland 
 
 Little Rockcreek Mitchell 
 
 Little Mills Richmond 
 
 Little Sugarloaf Bladen 
 
 LITTLETON Halifax 
 
 Lizzie Greene 
 
 Lookville Chatham 
 
 Loco Onslow 
 
 Locusthill Caswell 
 
 Locust , Stiinly 
 
 Lodo Mecklenburg 
 
 Loftis Transylvania 
 
 Logans Store Rutherford 
 
 Lomax Wilkes 
 
 Lonely Moore 
 
 LONGCREEK ■?^"'?^i^ 
 
 Longford Iredell 
 
 Long Island Catawba 
 
 Longleaf Moore ,„„., . . ,^ 
 
 Longpine Anson Maple Cypress Cravei 
 
 LonShoals Lincoln Maplehill Pende 
 
 Longs Store ' ...Union 
 
 Longtown Yadkin 
 
 Longview Guilford 
 
 Loretta Catawba 
 
 Lotta Hertford 
 
 LOUiSBURG (c. h.) Franklin 
 
 Louise Catawba 
 
 Lovelace Wilkes 
 
 Lovelady Mecklenburg 
 
 Loveslevel Union 
 
 Lowder Stanly 
 
 Lowe Robeson 
 
 LOWELL .Gaston 
 
 ^Lowesville Lincoln 
 
 Lowgap Surrey 
 
 Lowland Pamlico 
 
 Loy Alamance 
 
 Loyd Lincoln 
 
 Lucama Wilson 
 
 Lucia Gaston 
 
 Lucile Wilkes 
 
 Luck Madison 
 
 Lufty Gaston 
 
 Lul Wake 
 
 LUMBER BRIDGE RobCSOn 
 
 LUMBERTON (c h.) Robeson 
 
 Lupion ~ Carteret 
 
 Luster :«.. Durham 
 
 Luther Buncombe 
 
 Lutterloh Chatham 
 
 Lydia Sampson 
 
 Lyman DupLn 
 
 I^yiK'h Madison 
 
 Lyndover Durham 
 
 Lynn Polk 
 
 Lyons Granville 
 
 Lyons Landing Bladen 
 
 Lytch Richmond 
 
 Lytton Randolph 
 
 McADENVILLE GaStOU 
 
 McArthurs Robeson 
 
 McCains Union 
 
 McCall Caldwell 
 
 McClammy Wayne 
 
 McCrav Alamance 
 
 McCurdy Iredell 
 
 McFarlan Anson 
 
 McGowen Duplin 
 
 McKee Davidson 
 
 McKov Sampson 
 
 McLeansville. Guilford 
 
 McNair Richmond 
 
 McNatt Robeson 
 
 McNeely Rockingham 
 
 Mabel Watauga 
 
 Mabrv Stanly 
 
 Macedonia Montgomery 
 
 Machpelah Lincoln 
 
 Mack Rutherford 
 
 MACKEY FERRY Washington 
 
 MACON VVVi^^'Y'^'' 
 
 Madge Mecklenburg 
 
 MADISON ^°^\^;'-?Hf n 
 
 Magnetic City Mitchell 
 
 MAGNOLIA .;H^Pk'' 
 
 MAIDEN Catawba 
 
 Maitland Sampson 
 
 Makatoka Brunswick 
 
 Makelvville Hyde 
 
 Malee". Richmond 
 
 Malmo' Brunswick 
 
 Mamie Cherokee 
 
 Alana Yadkin 
 
 Manchester Cumberland 
 
 Mangum Richmond 
 
 MANLY ^OO^^ 
 
 Manndale Chatham 
 
 Manning Rowan 
 
 Manns Harbor Dare 
 
 Manson Warren 
 
 MANTEoJc. ft.) .;.-^^re 
 
 r 
 
 Maplesprings Wilkes 
 
 Mapleton Hertford 
 
 Mapleville Franklin 
 
 Marble Cherokee 
 
 Marengo Anson 
 
 MARGARETTSVILLE . ••••• 
 
 Northampton 
 
 Maribel Pamlico 
 
 Marines Onslow 
 
 MARION (eft.) McDowell 
 
 Mariposa Lincoln 
 
 Marier Yadkin 
 
 Marlev Mills Randolph 
 
 Marlville Bladen 
 
 Marmaduke Warren 
 
 Marsh Davidson 
 
 MARSHALL (C. ft.) ^^'^^.if^^ 
 
 Marshallberg Carteret 
 
 MARSHiLL Madison 
 
 Marshville Union 
 
 Martha Randolph 
 
 Martin Yadkin 
 
 Martindale Mecklenburg 
 
 Martin's Mill Montgomery 
 
 Mascot Buncombe 
 
 Mashoes \v^i!^ 
 
 Massey Wake 
 
 Mast Watauga 
 
 MATTHEWS Mecklenburg 
 
 Mand Randolph 
 
 Maximo Cabarrus 
 
 „.y-„M R()be«on 
 
 Maxv^eli';:::.' Henderson 
 
 May Harnett 
 
 M'ayfieid'.'".*." Rockingham 
 
 Mavhew .Iredell 
 
 Mayo Rockingham 
 
 Maysviiie Jones 
 
 Mavwood Alamance 
 
 Meadowhill Caldwell 
 
 Meadows Stokes 
 
 Meatcamp Watauga 
 
 MEBANE Alamance 
 
 Mechanic Randolish 
 
 Medlin .-^wain 
 
 Medoc Hal;*^^ 
 
 Meeksville Wilson 
 
 Meganna Buncombe 
 
 -NEWBERN (c. ft.) Ciaveu 
 
 Melierrin Northampton 
 
 Meiggs Surry 
 
 Melanchthon Randolph 
 
 Melrose Robeson 
 
 Melville'.'.".'. Alamance 
 
 Melvin IliU r" ?°'^ 
 
 Memory Rutherford 
 
 Menoia Hertford 
 
 Merchant Mills .Gates 
 
 Meredith -J?^^^^^, 
 
 Merrimon Ca teret 
 
 Merritt Pamlico 
 
 Merryhill Bertie 
 
 Merrymont Warren 
 
 Merryoaks Chatham 
 
 Mesic Pamlico 
 
 Metal ■.■.'.■.'..".'.'.".'.". Cleveland 
 
 Method ;v.}V n 
 
 Mica Mitchell 
 
 Mickvi'iie".'!'.'. Yancey 
 
 Michael Davidson 
 
 Micro Johnston 
 
 MIDDLEBURG W-oTo.V^f 
 
 Middlecane Watauga 
 
 Midd etown Hy<ie 
 
 Midwav Davidson 
 
 Mildred Edgecombe 
 
 Mile.ville Caswell 
 
 Millboro Randolph 
 
 Millbridge ^°)^?^^ 
 
 Millbrook • ^^ aKe 
 
 MiUcreek Person 
 
 Milledgeville Montgomery 
 
 Miller Ir'?dell 
 
 Millers Creek ^> i^kes 
 
 Miilertown Rowan 
 
 Millhill ;--;,^^'^'Y^^J 
 
 Milligan •...Cleveland 
 
 Millingport ••• Stanly 
 
 Millprong Robeson 
 
 Millshoal Macon 
 
 gMillspriog •■ i^o\k 
 
 Mills River Henderson 
 
 Millstone Catawba 
 
 Millwood Chatham 
 
 „,, -Q^ Caswell 
 
 Milwaukee Northampton 
 
 Mineola Beaufort 
 
 Mingo ^,^?^P^^f| 
 
 Minneapolis Mitchell 
 
 Minthill Mecklenburg 
 
 Miranda Eowan 
 
 Mission -• Stanly 
 
 Mitchiner Franklin 
 
 Mitford Rowan 
 
 Mix Sampson 
 
 Mizpa'h.'.'.";.! Stokes 
 
 mocksville(c. ft.).. ^- Davie 
 
 Moffitt Randolph 
 
 Mohawk Harnett 
 
 Mollie Columbus 
 
 Monbo Ca awba 
 
 , Chatham 
 
 MONOURE 
 
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 Money Henderson 
 
 monroe(c. h.) Union 
 
 Monroeton Rockingham 
 
 Montague Pendor 
 
 MonteUh Mecklenburg 
 
 Montezuma Miiebell 
 
 Moutford McDowell 
 
 Montgomery Montgomery 
 
 Monticello Washington 
 
 Montland Alleghany 
 
 Montrose Cumberland 
 
 Montvale Transylvania 
 
 MOORESBORO Cleveland 
 
 Moores Creek Pender 
 
 MOORESViLLE Ireriell 
 
 Mooshaunee Moore 
 
 Moravian Falls "Wilkes 
 
 MOOREHEAD CITY Carteret 
 
 Moretz Watanga 
 
 Morganhill Buncombe 
 
 Morgans Mills Union 
 
 *MORGANTON (c h.) Burke 
 
 Moirah Person 
 
 Morrisville Wake 
 
 Morrosenean Robeson 
 
 Mortons Store Alamance 
 
 MORVEN Anson 
 
 Moscow Bladen 
 
 Moser Surry 
 
 MOSLEY Surry 
 
 Mossneck Robeson 
 
 Moulton Franklin 
 
 Mountain Creek Catawba 
 
 Mountain Island Gaston 
 
 Mountainview W^arren 
 
 "mountairy Surry 
 
 Mount Bethel Alexander 
 
 Mount Carmel Moore 
 
 Mount Energy Granville 
 
 MOUNT GiLEAD Montgomery 
 
 Mount Gould Bertie 
 
 MOUNT holly Gaston 
 
 J Mount Mitchell Buncombe 
 
 Mount Mourne ..•• Iiedell 
 
 Mount Nebo Yadkin 
 
 MOUNT OLIVE Wayne 
 
 Mount Pisgah Alexander 
 
 MOUNT PLEASANT Cabari US 
 
 Mount Sterling Haywood 
 
 Mount Tirzah Person 
 
 Mountulla Rowan 
 
 Mount Vernon Rowan 
 
 Mount Vernon Sp'gs. Chatham 
 
 Mount Zion Wilkes 
 
 MOYOCK Currituck 
 
 Moytoa Wilson 
 
 Mudlick Chatham 
 
 Mulberry Wiikes 
 
 Mullen Randolph 
 
 Mullgrove Catawba 
 
 Mum ford Pasquotank 
 
 MURFREESBORO Hertford 
 
 MURPHY (c. h.) Cherokee 
 
 Muttenz Caldwell 
 
 Myatt Mills Wake 
 
 Myrtle Rutherford 
 
 Myrts Duplin 
 
 Naghead Dare 
 
 Nails Montgomery 
 
 Mance Rockingham 
 
 NASHVILLE (c h.) Nash 
 
 Nathans Creek Ashe 
 
 Nat Moore Bladen 
 
 Natural Wells Duplin 
 
 Neal Halifax 
 
 Nealsville McDowell 
 
 Neatman Stokes 
 
 Nebo McDowell 
 
 Needmore.. ..•• Swain 
 
 Nesrobead ., Union 
 
 Nelson '. Durham 
 
 Nestor Davie 
 
 Net Iredell 
 
 Nettleknob Ashe 
 
 Neuse Wake 
 
 Nevin Mecklenburg 
 
 Newcastle Wilkes 
 
 Newell Mecklenburg 
 
 Newfound Buncombe 
 
 Newhill Wake 
 
 Newhope Iredell 
 
 Newhope Academy. Randolph 
 
 Newhouse Cleveland 
 
 ISewlight Wake 
 
 NEW LONDON Stanly 
 
 NewmaM Warren 
 
 Newmarket Randolph 
 
 NEWPORT Carteret 
 
 New River Alleghany 
 
 New Salem Randolph 
 
 New Stirling Iredell 
 
 NEWTON (c. h.) Catav/ba 
 
 Newton Grove Sampson 
 
 Nicanor Perquimans 
 
 Nicholson. Alamance 
 
 Nicholsons Mills Iiedell 
 
 Nicholsonville Cleveland 
 
 Nimrod Mecklenburg 
 
 Nina Cheiokee 
 
 Nixonton Pasquotank 
 
 Noblin Granville 
 
 Noise Moore 
 
 Nonah Macon 
 
 Norfleet Halifax 
 
 Norris Watauga 
 
 Northbrook Lincoln 
 
 Northcove McDowell 
 
 North Harlowe Craven 
 
 Northside Granville 
 
 NORTHWILKESBORO VVilkeS 
 
 Norton Jackson 
 
 Nerval H«rnett 
 
 NORWOOD Stanly 
 
 Nottia Cherokee 
 
 Nulin. Alleghany 
 
 Nussman Cabarrus 
 
 Nye Robeson 
 
 Oakdale Alamance 
 
 ♦^''akforest Iredell 
 
 Oakgrove Union 
 
 Oakhill Granville 
 
 Oakland Nssh 
 
 Oakley Pitt 
 
 OAKRiDGE Guilford 
 
 Oaks Orange 
 
 Oakspring Rutherford 
 
 Oak Summit Forsyth 
 
 Oakville Warren 
 
 Oakwoods Wilkes 
 
 Obids Ashe 
 
 Ocean Carteret 
 
 Oconalufty Swain 
 
 Ocracoke..'. Hyde 
 
 Odell Warren 
 
 Odom Richmond 
 
 Ogreeta Cherokee 
 
 Oine Warren 
 
 Okay Forsyth 
 
 Okeewemee Montgomery 
 
 Okisko Pasquotank 
 
 Ola Cleveland 
 
 Old Dock ...Columbus 
 
 OLDFORT McDowell 
 
 Old Furnace Gaston 
 
 Old Hundred Richmond 
 
 OLD SPARTA Edgecombe 
 
 Old Stores Moore 
 
 Oldtrap Camden 
 
 gOlin Iredell 
 
 Olivebranch Union 
 
 Olivehill Person 
 
 Olivers Jones 
 
 Ollie Moore 
 
 Olney Alleghany 
 
 Olympia Pamlico 
 
 I Omega Rowan 
 
 Onion Brunswick 
 
 Onvil Montgomery 
 
 Onward Montgomery 
 
 Ophir Montgomery 
 
 Ora Sampson 
 
 Orange Sampson 
 
 Oregon Rockinghsm 
 
 OREHiLL .Chathanx 
 
 Organchureh Rowan 
 
 Oriental Pamlico 
 
 Orinoco Davidson 
 
 Orleans Lincoln 
 
 Ormondsville Greene 
 
 Orrum Robeson 
 
 Orton Columbus 
 
 Osborne Rit-hmond 
 
 Osbornville , Wi'kes 
 
 Oscar ..Jackson 
 
 Osceola Alamance 
 
 Osgood Chatham. 
 
 Osmond Caswell 
 
 Osteen ,. Henderson 
 
 Ostwalt Iredell 
 
 Oswego Franklin 
 
 Otis Yadkin 
 
 Ottercreek Rutherford 
 
 Otto Macon 
 
 Outlaw Bridge Duplin 
 
 Outlook Madison 
 
 Overshot Johnson 
 
 Owenby Buncombe 
 
 Owenville Sampson 
 
 oxford( c. h.) Granville 
 
 Oxford Ford Catawbi 
 
 Oziirk Wilkes^ 
 
 Pactolus Pitt 
 
 Page Pender 
 
 Painter Jackson 
 
 Paint folk Madison 
 
 Paintgap Yancey 
 
 Paintrock Madison 
 
 Palestine Stanly 
 
 Palm Haywood 
 
 Palmerville Stanly 
 
 Palmyra Halifax 
 
 Paloalto Onslow 
 
 Pamlico Pamlico 
 
 Panacea Halifax 
 
 Pant Haywood 
 
 PANTCGO .Beaufort 
 
 Panther Creek Yadkin 
 
 Paolia Harnett 
 
 Paris Anson 
 
 Parkersburg Sampson 
 
 Parkcwood Moore 
 
 Parks Wilkes 
 
 Parkton Robeson 
 
 PARMELE Martin 
 
 Parrish Macon 
 
 Paraonville Wilkes 
 
 Partee Alexander 
 
 Paschal Chatham 
 
 Pasley Duplin 
 
 Pastook Davidson 
 
 Pates Robeson 
 
 Patmos Chatham 
 
 Patrick Cherokee 
 
 Patten McDowell 
 
 Patterson Caldwell 
 
 Pattersons Bridge Moore- 
 Patterson Springs. ...Cleveland 
 
 Paw creek Mecklenburg' 
 
 Peace Wake 
 
 Peachland Anson 
 
 Peachtree Cherokee 
 
 Peacocks Store Columbus 
 
 Peanut Onslow 
 
 Pearidge Polk 
 
 Pearl •« Cleveland 
 
 Pearsall ^ Duplin 
 
 Pearson '.r. Burke 
 
 Peden Alleghany 
 
 Pedlars Hill Chatham 
 
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 Peedee Anson 
 
 Peglj MadiKOu 
 
 Peeler.....'.*. Kowan 
 
 Pegues!*. ".*.... Richmond 
 
 Pekin .' Montgomery 
 
 Peletiers Mills (urteret 
 
 Pellum Caswell 
 
 Pembroke Robeson 
 
 Pendleton Northampton 
 
 Penelo Edgecombe 
 
 Penelope Burke 
 
 Penland Mitchell 
 
 Penley Watauga 
 
 Pennington Stanly 
 
 Peuny Johnston 
 
 Penrose Transylvania 
 
 Pensacola Yancey 
 
 Peoples Chatham 
 
 Perch Surry 
 
 Perfection Graven 
 
 Pernell ^ake 
 
 Perrv Gaston 
 
 Peiryviiie".! Bladen 
 
 Persimmon Creek Cherokee 
 
 Perth Iredell 
 
 Pgrii Havwood 
 
 Petra."'.'.".".'.'.".'..'.'.' Caldwell 
 
 Pgtt Wake 
 
 ?Pfafftowii".'.*..'." Forsyth 
 
 jpiii Rowan 
 
 Phcenix .......' Brunswick 
 
 Pike Cumberland 
 
 Pikevlile Wayne 
 
 Pilot Franklin 
 
 PILOTMOUNTAIN ^Y^P' 
 
 Pinckton. -J^^^^ 
 
 PINEBLUFF ^^v'l^ 
 
 Pineboro \^^^ 
 
 hinehall Stokes 
 
 Pineland Macon 
 
 Pinelevel Johnston 
 
 POMONA ;v-^'"^^'''''^, 
 
 I'onioi Montgomery 
 
 Pool Rowan 
 
 Poor-^Ford Polk 
 
 Poors Knob Wilkes 
 
 H'oortith Union 
 
 i'oplarbranch Currituck 
 
 Popiargrove Polk 
 
 Poplarhill Anson 
 
 Poplarmount Wurten 
 
 Populi Bladen 
 
 Porter Stanly 
 
 Portsmouth Carteret 
 
 Postell Cherokee 
 
 Postoak Randolph 
 
 Potecasi Northampton 
 
 Potter Union 
 
 POWELLS POINT Currituck 
 
 Powelisville Bertie 
 
 Powelton Richmond 
 
 Prathers Creek Alleghany 
 
 Pratt ....Johnston 
 
 Pre^siy Iredell 
 
 Preston.'.' Johnston 
 
 Prestonville Stokes 
 
 Price Rockingham 
 
 Prices Creek Yancey 
 
 Prices Mill Union 
 
 Princeton Johnston 
 
 Pritchett Rockingham 
 
 Pnvett Franklin 
 
 Proctor Swain 
 
 Progress. Randolph 
 
 Promise Onslow 
 
 Prong Columbus 
 
 ProsT>ect- Hill Caswell 
 
 Prosperity Moore 
 
 Providence Chatham 
 
 Proviso Buncombe 
 
 Pughs Franklin 
 
 Pump. Henderson 
 
 Puppo Beaufort 
 
 piSltom^l""".^.::■.■.^^B'ea^u^^^^^^^^ pur^poiis. ^?,^^f^ 
 
 pIneviiTle :.....::.:.Mecklenburg Pnrlear Wilkes 
 
 Pinevcreek.. Alleghany 
 
 Pinkbed Henderson 
 
 Pinkhill Lenoir 
 
 Pinkney Wayne 
 
 Pinnacle Buncombe 
 
 Pinnix Davidson 
 
 Pino P^V^e 
 
 Pinson Randolph 
 
 Pioneer Mills Cabarrus 
 
 Pireway Columbus 
 
 Pisgah Randolph 
 
 PiTTSBORO (c. h.) Chathani 
 
 Plain GuiLord 
 
 Plateau Catawba 
 
 Pleasant Garden Guilford 
 
 Pleasantgrove Alamance 
 
 Pleasanthill Northampton 
 
 Pleasant Lodge Alamance 
 
 Pleasantridge Gaston 
 
 Pleasants Granville 
 
 Pleasantville Rockinghani 
 
 Plott Haywood 
 
 ?Pluck Chatham 
 
 Plumtree Mitchell 
 
 Plyler Stanly 
 
 PLYMOUTH (c. /I.). ..Washington 
 
 Pocket Moore 
 
 Pocomoke Franklin 
 
 Pocosin Columbus 
 
 Poes Harnett 
 
 Poindexter Ya'^kin 
 
 Point * Cleveland 
 
 Point'Caswell Pender 
 
 Polenta Johnston 
 
 Polk Harnett 
 
 POLKTON •Av'^r°5 
 
 Polkville Cleveland 
 
 POLLOKSVILLE .......Jones 
 
 Polycarp Alexander 
 
 Purlear 
 
 Parley Caswell 
 
 Purvis Robeson 
 
 Quaker Stokes 
 
 Quallatown Jackson 
 
 Queen Montgomery 
 
 Queensdale Robeson 
 
 Quervs Mecklenburg 
 
 Quiet Moore 
 
 Quincv Onslow 
 
 Redraountain Durham 
 
 Redoak Nash 
 
 Redshoals Stokes 
 
 RED SPRINGS Kobeson 
 
 Rtedy Davidson 
 
 Reelsboro '. Pamlico 
 
 Reepsville Lincoln 
 
 Reese Watauga 
 
 Refuge Robeson 
 
 Register Bladen 
 
 Rehoboth Northampton 
 
 *reidsvillEm Rockingham 
 
 Reinhardt Lincoln 
 
 Rcitzel Randolph 
 
 Relief Mitchell 
 
 Rella Stokes 
 
 Rennert Robeson 
 
 Renston I'itt 
 
 Repose Lenoir 
 
 Republic Yadkin 
 
 Resaca Dnplio 
 
 Rest Stanly 
 
 Resthaven Buncombe 
 
 Retreat Haywood 
 
 Reuben Union 
 
 Revnoldson Gates- 
 Rhodes Cumberland 
 
 Rialto Chatham 
 
 Riceville Buncombe 
 
 Richardson Bladen 
 
 Rlch<^rdsons Creek Union 
 
 Richfield Stanly 
 
 mCHLANDS VvP^.k'"''' 
 
 Richmond Chatham 
 
 Richmond Hill Yadkin 
 
 RICH SQUARE ••••Nortliampton 
 
 Riddieksville Hertford 
 
 Riddle Camden 
 
 Ridgespring ^^^^'^^' 
 
 Ridgeville Caswell 
 
 RiDGEWAY Warren 
 
 Riggsbee Chatham 
 
 Ri'Teys Crossroads Franklin 
 
 Rileys Store Randolph 
 
 j^imer Cabarrus 
 
 Ringwood u^A^^^^i^ 
 
 Rippetoe ^^^4^^^^} 
 
 Risden Caldwell 
 
 Ritchie Stanly 
 
 Rlverdale 9^^Y^^V 
 
 Riverhill Iredell 
 
 Riverside •••.•••■ Ashe- 
 
 Riverton Richmond 
 
 ^ . c>Vv Pin I Riverview'.'." Mecklenburg 
 
 ^;^::::::::::::::::::^^ ' 5i!^i^L..t ...Chatham 
 
 Quitsna Bertie 
 
 Rachel Randolph 
 
 Raeford Cumberland 
 
 Rainbow Chatham 
 
 RALEIGH (cM •V,-"7t^^ 
 
 Ralph Randolph 
 
 Ramon Johnston 
 
 Ramsaytown Yancey 
 
 Ramseur Randolph 
 
 Ranaleburg Mecklenburg 
 
 RANDLEMAN g«"^^lP^ 
 
 Randolph Randolph 
 
 Rands Mills ^Vake 
 
 Ranger Cherokee 
 
 Rankin Mecklenburg 
 
 Ransoms Bridge Franklin 
 
 Ransomville Beaufort 
 
 Rathborne Guilford 
 
 Ravens Swam 
 
 Ray Madison 
 
 Ray wood vVr^l^^^ 
 
 Readvbranch Wilkes 
 
 Record Columbus 
 
 Redallia ....Pitt 
 
 Redbanks ^o.^.^son 
 
 Reddies River Wilkes 
 
 Rives Chapel Chathat 
 
 Roanes Mill Macon 
 
 Roanoke Rockingham 
 
 Roanoke Rapids Halifax 
 
 Roaringgap ^M^' 
 
 Roaring River Wilkes 
 
 ROBBiNSViLLE (c /i.) . . -Grahani 
 Roberdell Richmond 
 
 ROBERSONVILLE /^i^ 
 
 Roberts .....Ashe- 
 Robeson Columbus 
 
 Robin Cumberland 
 
 Rochdale •■•- ^^^tt 
 
 Rochester Robeson 
 
 Pock Rowan 
 
 Rockc'ree'k.'."."..". Alamance 
 
 Roekcut •A-l''*^^?}^ 
 
 Rockett Catawba 
 
 Rockford v:^^"^ 
 
 ROCKINGHAM (c /^^-R'c.hmond 
 
 Rocklevel Rockingham 
 
 Rockrest AJnion 
 
 Rockspring Orange 
 
 Rockview Buncombe 
 
 Rockwell ;,?°^^^" 
 
 Rockyhock Chowan 
 
 ROCKY MOUNT Edgecombe 
 
 Redhin ""'.".■.■.■.■;.■.■.■.:.. Mitchell Rockypass ^^^S^'^fii: 
 
 Redland .■.■.:..:.....:.. Davie Rockypoint Pender 
 
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 Ashe ville and Vicinity — A Handbook. 
 
 Rocky Springs . . Rockingham 
 
 Rodahthe Dare 
 
 Roe Carteret 
 
 Rogers Store Wake 
 
 Rolesville Wake 
 
 Rollins Burke 
 
 Rome Johnston 
 
 Romola Halifax 
 
 Ronda Wilkes 
 
 ROPER Washington 
 
 Roscoe Chatham 
 
 Rose Chatham 
 
 Roseboro Sampson 
 
 Rosedale Pasquotank 
 
 Rosehill Duplin 
 
 Rosemead Bertie 
 
 Rosevllle Person 
 
 Rosewood Chatham 
 
 Ros^inburg Wake 
 
 Rosindale Bladen 
 
 Roslin Cumberland 
 
 Rongemont Durham 
 
 Round Mountain Wilkes 
 
 Roundpeak Surry 
 
 Rountree Pitt 
 
 Rowan Rowan 
 
 Rowell Davidson 
 
 Rowland Robeson 
 
 ROXBORO (c. h.) Person 
 
 ROXOBEL Bertie 
 
 Royal Franklin 
 
 Rozier ... Robeson 
 
 Rubicon Moore 
 
 Rudisill Catawba 
 
 RUFFiN Rockingham 
 
 Rugby Henderson 
 
 Ruralhall Forsyth 
 
 Rushing Union 
 
 Rusk Surry 
 
 Russell Rowan 
 
 Ruth Forsyth 
 
 Rutherford College Burke 
 
 RUTHERFORDTON (C. /(•) 
 
 Rutherford 
 
 Rutherwood Watauga 
 
 Ryan Robeson 
 
 Ryland Chowan 
 
 Saddletree Robeson 
 
 Safe Duplin 
 
 Sago Mecklenburg 
 
 Sains Lincoln 
 
 Saint John Hertford 
 
 Saint Jude Watauga 
 
 Saint Lawrence Chatham 
 
 Saint Lewis Edgecombe 
 
 Saint Pauls Robeson 
 
 Saint Phillip Brunswick 
 
 SALEM Forsyth 
 
 Salem Chapel Forsyth 
 
 Salem Church Randolph 
 
 '•'SALISBURY {e.h.) Rowan 
 
 SALUDA Polk 
 
 Samuel Surry 
 
 Sandbluff. Bladen 
 
 Snndifer Mecklenburg 
 
 Sands Watauga 
 
 Sandy Madison 
 
 Sandycross Gates 
 
 Sandygrove Chatham 
 
 Sandymush Buncombe 
 
 Sandyridge Stokes 
 
 Sandysprings Polk 
 
 SANFORD Moore 
 
 Sans Souci Bertie 
 
 Sapona Davidson 
 
 Saquilla Macon 
 
 Sapphire Jackson 
 
 Saratoga Wilson 
 
 Sardis Mecklenburg 
 
 Sarecta Duplin 
 
 Sarem Gates 
 
 Satterwhite Granville 
 
 Saulston Wayne 
 
 Saunders Cabarrus 
 
 Saw Rowan 
 
 Sawmill Caldwell 
 
 Sawyersville Randolph 
 
 Saxapahaw Alamance 
 
 Saxon. Stokes 
 
 Scalesville Guilford 
 
 Scaly Macon 
 
 Scarboro Montgomery 
 
 Science Randolph 
 
 SCOTLAND NECK Halifax 
 
 Scotts Iredell 
 
 Scotts Creek .^Tackson 
 
 Scotts Hill Pender 
 
 SCOTTVILLE Ashe 
 
 Scrantou Hyde 
 
 Scuppernong Washington 
 
 Seaboard Northampton 
 
 Sedges Garden Forsyth 
 
 SELMA Johnston 
 
 Semora Caswell 
 
 Senia Mitchell 
 
 Sessom Robeson 
 
 Settle Iredell 
 
 Sevensprings Wayne 
 
 Severn Northampton 
 
 Seward Forsyth 
 
 Sexton Madison 
 
 Shallotte Brunswick 
 
 Shallowford Alamance 
 
 Shamrock Mecklenburg 
 
 Shankle Stanly 
 
 SHANNON Robeson 
 
 Sharon Cleveland 
 
 Sharp Rockingham 
 
 Sharpsburg Nash 
 
 Shawboro Currituck 
 
 Shawnee Catawba 
 
 Shaws Mills Guilford 
 
 Sheffield. Davie 
 
 SHELBY (c. h.) Cleveland 
 
 Shelton Surrv 
 
 Sherrills Ford Cat&wba 
 
 Sherwood Cumberland 
 
 Sheva Mecklenburg 
 
 Shiloh Camden 
 
 Shine Greene 
 
 Shinsville Iredell 
 
 Shoals Surry 
 
 Shocco Warren 
 
 Shooting Creek Clay 
 
 Shope Buncombe 
 
 Shopton Mecklenburg 
 
 Shore Yadkin 
 
 Shortoff- Macon 
 
 Shotwell Wake 
 
 Shoups Ford Burke 
 
 Shulls Mills Watauga 
 
 Sidney . Beaufort 
 
 Sigma Iredell 
 
 Silasereek Ashe 
 
 siLER CITY Chatham 
 
 Silkhope Chatham 
 
 Siloam Surry 
 
 Silver Stanly 
 
 Silverdale Onslow 
 
 Silverhill Davidson 
 
 Silvers tone AVatauga 
 
 Sim Robeson 
 
 Simmongrove Chatham 
 
 Simpsons Store. ..Rockingham 
 
 Sincerity Union 
 
 Sioux Yancey 
 
 Sitton Henderson 
 
 Sixforks Wake 
 
 Sixruns Sampson 
 
 Skinnersville Washington 
 
 Skyco Dare 
 
 Skyland Buncombe 
 
 Skyuka Polk 
 
 gSladesville Hyde 
 
 Slate Stokes 
 
 Sligo Currituck 
 
 Sloan Duplin 
 
 Sloop Point Pender 
 
 Smith Stokes 
 
 SMrrriFiELD (c. h.) Johnston 
 
 Smithgrove - Davie 
 
 Smiths Ford , .Cabarrus 
 
 Smyrna Carteret 
 
 Snapp Gaston 
 
 Sneads t'erry Onslow 
 
 Snowcamp Alamance 
 
 Snowcreek I-edell 
 
 SNOWDEN Currituck 
 
 SNOWHILL (c. h ) Greene 
 
 Soapstone Mount . . . Randolph 
 
 Sodahill Watauga 
 
 Solitude Ashe 
 
 Somerset Chowan 
 
 Sonoma Haywood 
 
 Sophia Randolph 
 
 Southcreek Beaufort 
 
 SOUTHERN PINES Moore 
 
 SOUTH GASTON Halifax 
 
 South Lowell Durham 
 
 SOUTH MILLS Camden 
 
 Southpoint Gaston 
 
 souTHPORT (c. h.) ..Brunswick 
 
 South River Rowan 
 
 South toe Yancey 
 
 South Washington. Pender 
 
 Sparkling Catawba Springs. 
 
 Catawba 
 
 Sparkman Onslow 
 
 SPARTA (c. h.) Alleghany 
 
 Spear Mitchell 
 
 Speed Edgecombe 
 
 Speedwell Jackson 
 
 §Speights Bridge Greene 
 
 Spencer Moore 
 
 Spero Randolph 
 
 Spillman Yadkin 
 
 Spilona Johnson 
 
 Splendor Henderson 
 
 Split Mountain Haywood 
 
 Spoutsprings ...Harnett 
 
 SPRAY Rockingham 
 
 Springcreek Madison 
 
 Springdale Haywood 
 
 Springer Onslow 
 
 Springfield Wilkes 
 
 Springhill Halifax 
 
 SPRiNGHOPE Nash 
 
 Springle Carteret 
 
 Sprucepine Mitchell 
 
 Spurrier Mecklenburg 
 
 Stackhouse Madison 
 
 Stagville i^urham 
 
 Stainback Alamance 
 
 Staley Randolph 
 
 Stallings , Franklin 
 
 Stanhope Nash 
 
 STANLEY Gaston 
 
 Stantonsburg Wilson 
 
 Star Montgomery 
 
 Starlight Wayne 
 
 Starsburg Cumberland 
 
 Startown . Catawba 
 
 STATEROAD Surry 
 
 "sTATESviLLE U^ h.) Iredell 
 
 Stedman Cumberland 
 
 Steel Creek Mecklenburg 
 
 Stekoah Graham 
 
 Stella Carteret 
 
 STEM Granville 
 
 Stevenson Johnson 
 
 Sterling Roberson 
 
 Stevens Union 
 
 Stewart Richmond 
 
 Stice Cleveland 
 
 ^tocksville Buncombe 
 
 Stokes *. Pitt 
 
 Stokesdale ...'....Guilford 
 
 Stone Mountain McDowell 
 
 gStoneville Rockingham 
 
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 49 
 
 gStonewall Pamlico 
 
 Stonycreek Caswell 
 
 Stony icirlc Watauga 
 
 Stonyknoll Surry 
 
 Stony point Alexander 
 
 Stonyridgc Surry 
 
 Stophel Iredell 
 
 Stork Chatham 
 
 STOVALL Granville 
 
 Strabane Lenoir 
 
 Straits Carteret 
 
 Straw Wilkes 
 
 Strieby Randolph 
 
 Stiibbs CleA'el^nd 
 
 Stump'joiind Onslow 
 
 Stumpypoiut Dare 
 
 Sturgill Ashe 
 
 Success Buncombe 
 
 Sue Columbus 
 
 Sugargrove Watauga 
 
 Sugarhill McDowell 
 
 Suit Cherokee 
 
 Sulphur Springs.. Montgomery 
 
 Summerfield Guilford 
 
 Summerville Harnett 
 
 Summit Wilkes 
 
 Sumner Guilford 
 
 suNBURY Gates 
 
 Sunuyside . Rowan 
 
 Sunset Granville 
 
 Sunshine Rutherford 
 
 Supply Brunswick 
 
 Surl Person 
 
 Sussex Ashe 
 
 Sutherlands Ashe 
 
 Sutpin Alamance 
 
 Sutton Franklin 
 
 Swain Swain 
 
 Sw8ncreek Yadkin 
 
 Swannauoa Bimcombe 
 
 Swanner Alexander 
 
 SWANN STATION Moore 
 
 Swanquarter (c. /t.) ..Hyde 
 
 Swansboro Onslow 
 
 Sweet Home Iredell 
 
 Sweetwater Watauga 
 
 Swepsonville Alamance 
 
 Swift Island Montgomery 
 
 Swintou Moore 
 
 SYLVA Jrtckson 
 
 Sylvester Chatham 
 
 Tabernacle Guilford 
 
 Tablerock Burke 
 
 Tabor Columbus 
 
 Talbot , Wilson 
 
 Tampa ". Mecklenburg 
 
 TARBORO (c. h) Edgecombe 
 
 Tarheel Bladen 
 
 Tariff Columbus 
 
 Tar Landing Onslow 
 
 Tar River Granville 
 
 Tay'or Wilson 
 
 Taylors Bridge Sampson 
 
 TAYLORSViLLE (c /i.)-Alexander 
 
 Teacheys Duplin 
 
 Teague Hnvwood 
 
 Teer Orange 
 
 Telephone Person 
 
 Temple Wake 
 
 Tempting Moore 
 
 Tennyson Duvie 
 
 Terrapin Halifax 
 
 Teriell ..Catawba 
 
 Thagardville Moore 
 
 Thaxton Ashe 
 
 Theodore Buncombe 
 
 Thermal City Rutherford 
 
 Theta Madison 
 
 THOMASViLLE Davldson 
 
 Thompsnnville - .Rockingham 
 
 Threeforks .-. Yancey 
 
 Thurman Craven 
 
 Thurston Alexander 
 
 Tiger Rutherford 
 
 Tilden Yadkin 
 
 TiLLERY . Halifax 
 
 Til i man Chatham 
 
 Timberlake Person 
 
 Timothy Sampson 
 
 Tippecanoe Sampson 
 
 Tiptop Transylvania 
 
 Tobaccoville Forsyth 
 
 Todd Ashe 
 
 Tolarsville Robeson 
 
 Tolers .., Orange 
 
 Toluca Cleveland 
 
 Tomahawk Sampson 
 
 Tomotla Cherokee 
 
 Tomscreek McDowell 
 
 Topia Alleghany 
 
 Topsail Sound Pender 
 
 Towncreek Brunswick 
 
 Town.sville Vance 
 
 Tracadia Yadkin 
 
 Tracy Watauga 
 
 Tradingford Rowan 
 
 Trailbranch Madison 
 
 Tran*on Ashe 
 
 TRAPHiLL Wilkes 
 
 Treetop Ashe 
 
 TRENTON (C. h.) .*. JOUCS 
 
 Triangle Lincoln 
 
 TRINITY Randolph 
 
 Trio Rutherford 
 
 Triplett Wat<iuga 
 
 Trotville Gates 
 
 Trout Ashe 
 
 Troutsman Iredell 
 
 TROY (c h.) Montgomery 
 
 Troyville Harnett 
 
 Truth Chatham 
 
 TRYON Polk 
 
 Tiickahoe Jones 
 
 Tucka-eigee Jackson 
 
 Tulin . .Cabarrus 
 
 Tulip Stokes 
 
 Tulis Currituck 
 
 Tulula Graham 
 
 Tunis Hertford 
 
 Turkey Sampson 
 
 Turlington Harnett 
 
 Turnage Edgecombe 
 
 Turners Polk 
 
 Turner>burg Iredell 
 
 Turners Mountain Surry 
 
 Turnpike Buncombe 
 
 Turtletown Cherokee 
 
 Tuscarora Craven 
 
 Tuscola Haywood 
 
 Tusquitee '...Clay 
 
 Tweed Buncombe 
 
 Twine Clay 
 
 Twitty Rutherford 
 
 Tyner Chowan 
 
 Tyra Moore 
 
 Tyro Shops Davidson 
 
 Tvsor Mills Chatham 
 
 Ulah Randolph 
 
 Umbra Durham 
 
 Unaka. Cherokee 
 
 Uncas Mecklenburg 
 
 Union Hertford 
 
 Union hope Nash 
 
 Union Mills Rutherford 
 
 Unionridge Alamance 
 
 jiUnionville Union 
 
 Unity Mecklenburg 
 
 University Station Orange 
 
 Upton Caldwell 
 
 Upward. Henderson 
 
 Ur e' Rutherford 
 
 Valdese Burke 
 
 Vaile Cruces Watauga 
 
 Valley Mitchell 
 
 Vance Iredell 
 
 Vanceboro Craven 
 
 Vanceville Buncombe 
 
 Vandalia Guilford 
 
 Vandemere Pamlico 
 
 Vander Cumberland 
 
 Vann Union 
 
 Vannoy Wilkes 
 
 Van teen Wake 
 
 Variety Grove Harnett 
 
 Varina Wake 
 
 Vashli Alexander 
 
 Vass Moore 
 
 Vangban Warren 
 
 Vega Sampson 
 
 Velna Randolph 
 
 Venable Surry 
 
 Veni Halifax 
 
 Verble Rowan 
 
 Vernon Ashe 
 
 Verona Onslow 
 
 Vests Cherokee 
 
 Veto Wake 
 
 Viands Wilkes 
 
 Vicksboro Warren 
 
 Victor Moore 
 
 Vienna Forsvth 
 
 Vilas Watauga 
 
 Villanow Moore 
 
 Vincent Alamance 
 
 VINELAND Columbus 
 
 gViola Pender 
 
 Virgil Watauga 
 
 Vivian Gates 
 
 Voline Robeson 
 
 Vollers Robeson 
 
 Vultare Northampton 
 
 Waco Cleveland 
 
 Waddells Rockingham 
 
 Wade Cumberland 
 
 WADESBORO {c. h.) Anson 
 
 Wadeville Montgomery 
 
 Wagoner Ashe 
 
 Waiies Mecklenburg 
 
 Wakefield Wake 
 
 WAKE FOREST VVake 
 
 vxakulla Robeson 
 
 Waldo Chatham 
 
 Walker Polk 
 
 Walker- ville Umon 
 
 WALKERTOWN Forsyth 
 
 Waikup ..Union 
 
 WALLACE Duplin 
 
 Wallburg Davidson 
 
 WALNUTCOVE Stokes 
 
 Walnutruu Madison 
 
 Walter ^.... Wayne 
 
 Wanchese Dare 
 
 Wardiaw Union 
 
 Wards Mill Onslow 
 
 Warlick Burke 
 
 Warne Clay 
 
 Warren Plains Warren 
 
 WARRENTON c k.) Warren 
 
 WARSAW Duplin 
 
 Washburn Rutherford 
 
 WASHINGTON ic /;.)... Beaufort 
 
 Watauga Fa, Is Watauga 
 
 Waterlily Currituck 
 
 Waterloo Union 
 
 Watkins Vance 
 
 Watkinsville Stokes 
 
 Watsonville Rowan 
 
 Watts Iredell 
 
 Waugh Iredell 
 
 Waverly Cleveland 
 
 WAXHAW Union 
 
 Way Union 
 
 Waycoss Sampson 
 
 WAYNESViLLE (c h.) . . Haywood 
 
 Wayside ^ Swain 
 
 Weasel Ashe 
 
 Weaversford Ashe 
 
 WEAVERViLLE Buncombe 
 
 WEBSTER (c h.) Jackson 
 
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 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY— A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Weekaville Pasquotank 
 
 Wehutt ', Cherokee 
 
 Weisnef Iredell 
 
 Welcome Davidson 
 
 WELDON Halifax 
 
 WENTWORTH (c./i.).Rockingham 
 
 Wesley Surry 
 
 West Columbus 
 
 West Asheville Buncombe 
 
 Westbrook Bladen 
 
 West Durham Durham 
 
 WESTEND Moore 
 
 Western Haywood 
 
 Westfield Surry 
 
 Westminster Guilford 
 
 West Raleigh Wake 
 
 Wests Mill Macon 
 
 Westville Harnett 
 
 Wharf Anson 
 
 Wharton Beaufort 
 
 ^^'heatmo^e Randolph 
 
 Wheeler Ashe 
 
 Whetstone Granville 
 
 Wichard Pitt 
 
 WHiTAKERS Edgccombc 
 
 Whitehall Bladen 
 
 Whitehead Alleghany 
 
 Whitehouse Randolph 
 
 Whitener Catawba 
 
 Whiteplains Surry 
 
 Whiteroad Forsyth 
 
 Whiterock Madison 
 
 Whiteside Cove Jackson 
 
 White Store Anson 
 
 WHiTEViLLE (c h.) . . . .Columbus 
 
 Whitford Jones 
 
 Whitley Stanley 
 
 Whitsett Guilford 
 
 WHiTTiER Swain 
 
 Whiitington Wilkes 
 
 Whynot Randolph 
 
 Wicker Cumberland 
 
 Witrgins Crossroads , Gates 
 
 Wilkes Store Macon 
 
 Wilbanks Wilson 
 
 Wilbar Wilkes 
 
 Wildcat Northampton 
 
 Wildwood Carteret 
 
 Wiles Wilkes 
 
 Wilhite Yancey 
 
 wiLKESBORO <<c.h.) Wilkes 
 
 Wilkius Granville 
 
 Wilkesville Robeson 
 
 Willard Pender 
 
 Willardville Durham 
 
 Willeytou Gates 
 
 Williams Yadkin 
 
 Williamsboro Vance 
 
 Williamsburg . Iredell 
 
 Williams Mills Chatham 
 
 wiLLiAMSTON (c h.) Martin 
 
 Willis Creek Bladen 
 
 Willow Gates 
 
 Willowgreen Greene 
 
 ""WILMINGTON {fi.h.) 
 
 Ncw Hanover 
 
 Wilmot Jackson 
 
 WILSON ic. h.) Wilson 
 
 §Wilsons Mills Johnson 
 
 Wilsons Store Stokes 
 
 Wilton Granville 
 
 Winchester .Union 
 
 WINDSOR {c.h): Bertie 
 
 WINDFALL Perquimans 
 
 Winnie Bladen 
 
 Winslow Harnett 
 
 Winstead Person 
 
 Winsteadville Beaufort 
 
 *wiNSTCN (c./i) Forsyth 
 
 Winterville Pitt 
 
 Winthrop Carteret 
 
 wiNTON (c. /i.) Hertford 
 
 Wise Warren 
 
 Wit Carteret 
 
 Withers Stokes 
 
 Wiltenberg A 1 ^xander 
 
 Wolfcreek Cherokee 
 
 Wolf Mountain Jackson 
 
 Wolfsville Union 
 
 Woodard Bertie 
 
 Woodburn Person 
 
 Woodford Randolph 
 
 WOODLAND Northampton 
 
 Woodington Lenoir 
 
 Woodleaf Rowan 
 
 Woodley ..Chowan 
 
 Woodsdale Person 
 
 Woodside Rowan 
 
 Woodville Perquimans 
 
 Woodworth Vance 
 
 Wooten Columbus 
 
 Worry — Burke 
 
 Worthville Randolph 
 
 Wrendale Edgecombe 
 
 Wrightsville New Hanover 
 
 Wyatt Wake 
 
 Wyo Yadkin 
 
 Wythe Harnett 
 
 Xenia Duplin 
 
 YADKIN COLLEGE Davidson 
 
 Yadkin Kails Stanly 
 
 Yadkin Valley Caldwell 
 
 Yadkinville (c /i) Yadkin 
 
 Yale Henderson 
 
 YANCEYViLLE (c h.) . . . . Caswell 
 
 Yancy Person 
 
 Yarbro Caswell 
 
 YEATESVILLE Bcaufort 
 
 Yellowcreek Graham 
 
 Yerger Watauga 
 
 Yoder Catawba 
 
 Yokley Davidson 
 
 York College Inst . . Alexander 
 
 Yost Rowan 
 
 YcuNGSViLLE Frauklin 
 
 Yuma Watauga 
 
 Zacho Granville 
 
 Zeb Rowan 
 
 Zionville Watauga 
 
 Zirconia Henderson 
 
 Zoar Union 
 
 Zorah Craven 
 
 FEES CHARGED FOR DOMESTIC MONEY-ORDERS. 
 
 For orders not exceeding $2.50 Scents. 
 
 *' " exceeding $ 2 50, and not exceeding $ 5 00 5 " 
 
 *< '' 5 00, " " " 10 00 8 " 
 
 10 00, " " " 20 00 10 " 
 
 20 00, " " " 30 00 12 " 
 
 " " 30 00, " " " 40 00 15 " 
 
 '' »' 40 00, " " " 50 00 18 *' 
 
 50 00, " " " 60 00 20 " 
 
 " " 60 00, " " " 75 00 25 *' 
 
 75 00, " " " 100 00 30 '* 
 
 No single money-order shall be issued for more than $100.00. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 51 
 
 Buncombe County Officers. 
 
 :SherifF— AV. M. Worley. 
 
 Deputy Sheriffs — P. H. Thrash, C. D. McDoDald, Robt. Greenwood. 
 Register of Deeds — W. J. Beachboard. 
 
 Deputy Register of Deeds — W. T. Bradley, A. A. Hamlet. 
 County School Board — The County Commissioners. 
 Clerk of School Board— W. J. Beachboard, ex-officio. 
 Deputy Clerk of School Board— C B. Way. 
 County Treasurer — W. R. Payne. 
 County Attorney — H. A. Gudger. 
 Coroner — G. W. Reed. 
 Surveyor — A. A. Hamlet, 
 Clerk Superior Court — J. L. Cathey. 
 Deputy Clerk Superior Court— J. McD. Whitson. 
 Clerk Criminal Court— W. H. Wilson. 
 Deputy Clerk Criminal Court — S. B. Erwin. 
 
 Board County Commissioners— T. C. Brown, T. H. Weaver, S. J. 
 Ashworth. 
 
 County Examiner — A. H. Felmet. 
 Tax Collector — Thomas J. Reed. 
 Township Constable — John Davis. 
 
 Court Calendar. 
 
 U. S. and District Courts. — Western District, Chas. H. Simonton, 
 U. S, Circuit Court Judge. Residence, Charleston, S. C. 
 
 Robert P. Dick, U. S. District Judge, Western District, North Caro- 
 lina. Residence, Greensboro, N. C. 
 
 Thos. J. Allison, U. S. Marshal, Statesville, N. C. 
 
 Circuit and District Courts in the Western District are held at the 
 game time and place. 
 
 Asheville, First Monday in May and November. 
 
 Robert O. Patterson, Clerk. Residence, Asheville. 
 
 Robert B. Glenn, U. S. Attorney. Residence, Winston, N. C. 
 
 David A. Covington, Assist. U. S. Attorney. Residence, Monroe, 
 -N. C. 
 
52 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Supreme Court. — 12th Judicial District, called at Raleigh on April 
 20th and December 14th. 
 
 Criminal Circuit Conrf.— Western District, Judge H. G. Ewart, of 
 Heudersonville. Solicitor, R. S. McCall, Asheville. Haywood county, 
 January 13 and June 22; Buncombe county, January 27, April 27, 
 July 27, October 26; Madison county, February 10, June 8, Novem- 
 ber 9 ; Henderson county, April 13, October 12. Judge may direct 
 special term. 
 
 Superior Court North Carolina, 12th District. — 
 
 Spring term. Judge Timberlake. 
 
 Fall term. Judge Bryan. 
 
 Madison — fFebruary 24, f August 3. 
 
 Buncombe— fMarch 9, fAugust 17, fDecember 7. 
 
 Transylvania — March 30, September 7. 
 
 Haywood — f April 6, fSeptember 14. 
 
 Jackson — April 20, September 28. 
 
 Macon — May 4, October 5. 
 
 Clay— May 11, October 12. 
 
 Cherokee— *May 18, ^:^October 19. 
 
 Graham — June 1, November 9. 
 
 Swain— June 8, November 23. 
 
 Asheville City Government. 
 
 Incorporated 1833. Area, 4^ square miles. Municipal election held 
 first Monday in INIay. 
 
 INIayor — W. J. Cocke. Mayor elected for one year. Term expires 
 third Monday in May. Office, City Hall. 
 
 City Clerk— R. J. Stokely. 
 
 Superintendent Water Works — M. E. Roberts. 
 
 City Engineer — B. M. Lee. 
 
 Market Keeper — T. W. Triplett. 
 
 City Attorney — J. C. Martin. 
 
 City Tax Collector— S. F. Chapman. 
 
 City Treasurer — J. E. Rankin. 
 
 Chief of Fire Department — J. P. Sawyer. 
 
 *For criminal cases only. jFor civil cases only. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 53 
 
 Sanitary Inspector — Wm. Bird. 
 
 , Board of Health— Drs. M. H. Fletcher, Chas. S. Jordan, Chas. E. 
 Hilliard, H. B. Weaver, and The Mayor. 
 
 Aldermen (meet every Friday night) — 
 
 1st Ward, D. D. Suttle, term expires May, 1897. 
 
 2d Ward, B. Burnett, 
 
 3d Ward, M. H. Fletcher," 
 
 4th Ward, W. M. Jones, " " 
 
 At large, H. B. Carter, '' 
 
 At large, G. A. Mears, '' " 
 
 Township Constable — M. A. Creasraan. 
 
 1898. 
 1897. 
 1898. 
 1897. 
 1898. 
 
 Standing Committees. 
 
 Pinance— Jones, Burnett, Snider. 
 
 Water — Fletcher, Suttle, Rankin. 
 
 Street — Burnett, Mears. 
 
 Police— Carter, Suttle, Terrell. 
 
 Market — Mears, Fletcher, Ingle. 
 
 Fire — Suttle, Carter, Rich. 
 
 Street Lighting — Jones, Burnett, Field. 
 
 Charter and Ordinance— Carter, City Attorney, The Mayor. 
 
 Parks and Public Improvements— George S. Powell, J. P. Sawyer, 
 E. B. Atkinson, W. T. Penniman, C. T. Rawles, J. E. Dickerson, G. W. 
 Pack, W. H. Penland, T. C. Smith, J. P. Kerr, The Finance Committee. 
 
 Ashevllle's Assessed Wealth. 
 
 Assessed valuation — White $4 7^5 94Q 
 
 Colored 54,750 
 
 Total 84,820,690 
 
 1895. 
 
 Taxes levied for all purposes $101 784 74 
 
 Hate of tax on valuation— For city $1 20 (20c. for schools) 
 
 For State and county 90 (18c. " " ) 
 
 Total ,^2 10 
 
 Taxable incomes, 1895 $55 025 00 
 
 Tax at 1 per cent 55Q 25 
 
 City Assessors— M. J. Bearden, A. T. Summey, R. J. Stokely. 
 
54 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Asheville's Indebtedness. 
 
 Bonded debt $795,000 OO 
 
 Floating debt 
 
 Total debt $795,000 00 
 
 Sinking Fund 7,181 54 
 
 Net debt $787,818 46- 
 
 Corporate Limits. 
 
 Section 125 of the Code of the City of Asheville says ''that the cor- 
 poration line of 'The City of Asheville' shall hereafter be defined and 
 located as follows : Beginning in a crevice of a large rock marked with 
 the letters 'A. C. L.' on the top of the mountain ridge northeast of the 
 court-house and south of the highest top of said mountain and known 
 as Smith's View, and running thence a straight line south seventy-four 
 degrees west to the east bank of the French Broad river, thence up the 
 bank of said river, passing the iron bridge and the mouth of Town 
 branch to two large sycamore trees on the east bank of said river and 
 marked with the letters ' A. C L.', thence a straight line north seventy-^ 
 four degrees east to a stake one hundred feet east of the crest of the 
 mountain ridge next west of Ross's creek, then parallel with the top of 
 said mountain ridge, passing one hundred feet east of Beaumont to a 
 stake one hundred feet east of the beginning, and thence to the begin- 
 ning." 
 
 Ward Boundaries. 
 
 The citv is divided into nine wards, bounded as follows : 
 
 First Ward — Beginning in the center of South Main street, where it 
 crosses the southern boundary of the city limits, and moving thence 
 northwardly with the center of South Main street to the center of College 
 street ; thence eastwardly with the center of College street to the center of 
 Davidson street ; thence southwardly with the center of Davidson street 
 to the center of Eagle street ; thence eastwardly with the center of Eagle 
 street to the center of Valley street ; thence southwestwardly with the 
 center of Valley street to the center of South Beaumont street ; thence east- 
 wardly with the center of South Beaumont street its various courses to- 
 Beaucatcher Gap to the corporation line ; thence southwardly with the 
 corporation line to the southeast corner of the same ; thence westwardly 
 with the corporation line to the place of beginning. 
 
 Number of voters, 351. 
 
 First precinct. Court-house. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY— A HANDBOOK. 
 
 55 
 
 Second TFarci— Beginning in the center of College street opposite the 
 center of Davidson street, and moving thence with the center of said 
 Davidson street southwardly to the center of Eagle street; thence east- 
 wardly with the center of Eagle street to the center of Valley street ; 
 thence south westwardly with the center of Valley street to the center of 
 South Beaumont street ; thence eastwardly and northwestwardly with the 
 center of South Beaumont street to Beaucatcher Gap to the corporation 
 line; thence northwestwardly from the corporation line through Beau 
 catcher Gap down along and with the center of College street in various 
 courses to place of beginning. 
 
 Number of voters, 373. 
 
 Second precinct, Michaloy's store, Valley street. 
 
 Third Ward—Beginning in the center of South Main street opposite 
 the center of College street, and moving thence northwardly with the 
 center of North Main street to the center of Merrimon avenue ; thence 
 northeastwardly with the center of Merrimon avenue to the center of 
 Chestnut street ; thence eastwardly with the center of Chestnut street 
 to the center of Charlotte street ; thence northwardly with the center of 
 Charlotte street to the corporation line ; thence east with the corporation 
 line to the northeast corner of the corporation ; thence south with the 
 corporation line to Beaucatcher Gap to the center of College street ; 
 thence west, north and west with the center of College street its various 
 courses to the place of beginning. 
 
 Number of voters, 285. 
 
 Third precinct, Geo. F. Scott & Co 's lumber yard. 
 Fourth Tfarfl— Beginning in the center of North Main street opposite 
 the center of Merrimon avenue, and moving thence northwestwardly with 
 the center of Merrimon avenue to the center of Chestnut street; thence 
 eastwardly with the center of Chestnut street to the center of Charlotte 
 street ; thence northwardly with the center of Charlotte street to the 
 corporation line where said street crosses said line ; thence west with the 
 corporation line to the center of North Main street where said street crosses 
 said line; thence southwardly with the center of North Main street to 
 the place of beginning. 
 
 Number of voters, 190. 
 
 Fourth precinct, Lindsey's store, East street, near North Main. 
 
 Fifth Tfarci— Beginning in the center of North Main street opposite 
 the center of Patton avenue to the center of French Broad avenue; 
 thence northeastwardly with the center of French Broad avenue to the 
 center of Haywood street; thence west with the center of Haywood 
 street to the center of Montford avenue; thence northwardly with the 
 
56 ASHEYILLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 
 
 center of Moutford aveuiie to the corporation line; thence east with the 
 corporation line to the center of North Main street where the corporation 
 line crosses the said street ; then southwardly with the center of North 
 Main street to the place of beginning. 
 Number of voters, 360. 
 
 Fifth precinct, Fai mers' Warehouse, North Main street. 
 
 Sixth Ward — Beginning in the center of Patton avenue opposite the 
 center of French Broad avenue, and moving thence northeastwardly 
 with the center of French Broad avenue to the center of Haywood 
 street; thence west with the center of Haywood street to the center of 
 Moutford avenue; thence northwardly Avith the center of Montford ave- 
 nue to the corporation line; thence west with the corporation line to the 
 northwest corner of the corporation on the French Broad river ; thence 
 south up the river and with the corporation line to the center of Haywood 
 street where the corporation line crosses the same at the iron bridge ; 
 thence eastwardly with the center of Haywood street to the center of 
 Spring street ; thence eastwardly with the center of Spring street to the 
 center of Haywood street opposite Simmons' house and store; thence 
 northeastwardly with the center of Haywood street to the center of Pat- 
 ton avenue ; thence east with the center of Patton avenue to the place 
 of beo-innino-. 
 
 Number of voters, 379. 
 
 Sixth precinct, J. G. Duckett's store, Buttrick Block, Haywood Street. 
 
 Seventh Ward — Beginning in the center of Main street opposite the 
 center of Patton avenue, and moving thence west with the center of 
 Patton avenue to the center of Bailey street ; thence southwest with the 
 center of Bailey street, crossing Southside avenue opposite the center of 
 the McDowell bridge over Town branch ; thence crossing the bridge and 
 southwardly with the center of A^ictoria avenue to the corporation line; 
 thence east with the corporation line to the center of South Main street 
 where the corporation line crosses the same ; thence northwardly with 
 the center of South Main street to the place of beginning. 
 
 Number of voters, 364. 
 
 Seventh precinct. Carter's warehouse, Patton avenue. 
 
 Eighth Ward — Beginning in the center of Patton avenue opposite the 
 center of Bailey street, and moving thence southwest with the center of 
 Bailey street, crossing Southside avenue opposite the center of the Mc- 
 Dowell bridge over Town branch ; thence crossing the bridge and south- 
 wardly with the center of Victoria avenue to the corporation line ; thence 
 west with the corporation line to the center of Graham street ; thence 
 northward with the center of Graham street, crossing the town branch 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 57 
 
 and Southside avenue to the center of Freucli Broad avenue; thence 
 northwardly with the center of French Broad avenue to the center of 
 Patton avenue ; thence east with the center of Patton avenue to the 
 place of beginning. 
 
 Number of voters, 140. 
 
 Eighth precinct, corner Patton avenue and Grove street. 
 
 Ninth Ward — Beginning in the center of Patton avenue opposite the 
 center of French Broad avenue, and running thence southwardly with 
 the center of French Broad avenue, crossing Southside avenue and the 
 Town branch to the center of Graham street ; thence south with the 
 center of Graham street to the corporation line ; thence west with the 
 corporation line to the French Broad river and the southwest corner of 
 the corporation ; thence northwardly down the river and with the corpo- 
 ration line to the center of Haywood street, where the corporation line 
 crosses the same at the iron bridge ; thence eastwardly with the center of 
 Haywood street to the center of Spring street; thence eastwardly with 
 the center of Spring street to the center of Haywood street opposite 
 Simmons' house and store ; thence northeastwardly with the center of 
 Haywood street to the center of Patton avenue ; thence east wdth the 
 center of Patton avenue to the place of beginning. 
 Number of voters, 376. 
 
 Ninth precinct, McDowell & Dalton's store, near Smith's bridge. 
 
 Police Department. 
 
 Chief of Police— R. F. Lee. 
 
 Office— City Hall. 
 
 Police Captains — P L. Fitzpatrick, J. H. Brooks. 
 
 Patrolmen. — W. G. McDowell, R. K. Stephenson, N. A Collins, Joel 
 Powers, Jno. A. Lyerly, B. H. Williams, Thos. R. Harrison, Jas. W. 
 Spears, J. J. Noland, F. M. Jordan, Jr., AV. N. Ballard. 
 
 Asheville Post-Office. 
 
 Location — Federal Building, corner Haywood and Patton avenue. 
 
 Postmaster — J. P. Kerr. 
 
 Assistant Postmaster — E. C. Westall. 
 
 Chief Mailing Clerk— J. C. Bradford. 
 
 Registry and Money Order Clerk — E. C. Westall. 
 
 General Delivery — G. H. Morris. 
 
 Stamp Clerk — R. J. Hunt. 
 
 Dispatching Clerk — W. W. Moore. 
 
 Stamper — S. W. Kingsmore. 
 
58 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Carriers— W. H. Clark, N. W. Faiu, J. C. Cunningham, W. M. Jar- 
 rett, E. L. Henry, H. L. Morris. 
 
 Substitute Carriers — Chas. A. Evans, Jr., D. E. Cunningham. 
 
 Money Order Hours — 9 A. m. to 5 p. m. 
 
 General Delivery — 7 a. m. to 7 p. m., except during distribution of 
 mails. 
 
 Stamp Window Open — 7 A. m. to 7 p. m. 
 
 Sundays — General delivery and carriers' windows, 9 to 9 : 30 A. m , 6 
 to 6 :30 p. M. 
 
 Asheville Public Schools. 
 
 Members of the Board. — W. W. West, President; J. A. Nichols^ 
 W. A. Blair, W. E. Collins, W. F. Snider, T. V. Terrell ; Secretary, 
 J. D. Eggleston, Jr. 
 
 School Board Committees. — Orange school, J. A. Nichols ; Montford 
 school, W. A. Blair; Bailey school, W. F. Snider, T. V. Terrell; Cath- 
 olic Hill, W. W. West, W. E. Collins. 
 
 J. D, Eggleston, Jr., City Superintendent. 
 
 Orange High School — R. J. Tighe, Principal. 
 
 Montford School — J. A. Gwyn, Principal. 
 
 Bailey School — Mrs. F. Featherstou, Principal. 
 
 Catholic Hill School — E. H. Lipscombe, Prijicipal. 
 
 Orange school, Orange street, brick building, erected 1888 ; contain& 
 ten rooms and hall ; hot air heating ; capacity 500. 
 
 Montford school, Montford avenue, brick building, erected 1892 ^ 
 contains eight rooms and priurij^al's othce ; hot air heating ; capacity 
 400. 
 
 Bailey school, Bailey street, brick building, erected 1892; cnntnins 
 six rooms and principal's office ; hot air heating ; capacity 300. 
 
 Catholic Hill school (colored). 
 
 Valley street, brick buikling, erected 1892; contains seven rooms 
 and principal's office ; hot air heating ; capacity 350. 
 
 Private Schools. 
 
 Asheville Female College, Oak street. Principal, Mrs. James Atkins. 
 
 Home and Day School for Girls, Chestnut street. The Misses Chani-^ 
 pion. 
 
 Ravenscroft High School, Church street. Professor Valentine. 
 
 Home Industrial School, Victoria street. Miss Florence Stephenson. 
 
 Normal and Collegiate Institute, Victoria street. Dr. Thos. Law- 
 rence. 
 
 Bingham's Military School, Binsfham Heisfhts. Maior R. Bincrham. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 59 
 
 Southern Business College, Court Square. Professor M. M. Lemmond. 
 
 Skyland Institute, Grady street. Professor J. S. Dickey. 
 
 Private Kindergarten, Cherry street. Miss Portner. 
 
 School for Girls, Haywood street. Miss Harger. 
 
 Asheville Farm School, in the country. 
 
 Colored Industrial, College street. Miss A. B. Dole. 
 
 Calvary Presbyterian, Parochial (colored), 103 Eagle street. Rev. 
 C. B. Dusenberry. 
 
 St. Matthias Episcopal, Parochial (colored), Valley street. Rev. 
 H. S. McDuff'ey. 
 
 Fire Department. 
 
 Consists of Standing Committee of Board of Aldermen, one chief, 
 two captains, forty members. [For full description, see History of 
 Asheville.] 
 
 Fire Alarm Stations. 
 
 The list of the fire alarm stations includes those recently added by 
 the city authorities. The signals are given, location of stations, and the 
 names of parties whose telephones may be used in case of fire. An 
 alarm should be sent in to Central, and location of fire given. The ope- 
 rator at the telephone exchange, by means of the new transmitter, will 
 cause the number of the station nearest to be sounded. The alarm must 
 be sent from the box when no phone is available. 
 
 462 — Court Square. 
 
 453 Car Shed. J. V. Sevier, Asheville Hotel, Swannanoa Hotel, 
 
 Reynolds' stables. 
 432 — Belote house, W. B. Brown. 
 425— Passenger Depot, Glenn Rock Hotel, Freight Depot, Skyland 
 
 Furniture Co., C. E. Moody, G. F. Scott, W. H. Westall, 
 
 Asheville Woodworking Co., Standard Oil Co., Carolina Coal 
 
 Co., Asheville Mercantile Co. 
 364 — Bailey and Phillips streets. 
 352— French, Broad and Patton avenues, Mrs. Henry, Dr. 
 
 Merriwether, Mrs. Basler, Dick Weaver, Dr. Watson. 
 343_Buxton and Roberts streets. Asheville Milling Co., Armour 
 
 Packing Co., Cotton Mills, McDowell & Dalton, Gay Green, 
 
 D. H. Hughes. 
 324— Patton avenue and Haywood street. W. G. Smith, A. Whit- 
 lock, C. W. Baird & Co., Western Meat Co., A. Wernwag. 
 2G2— Montford avanue and Haywood street. Frank O'Donnell, 
 
 Owenbey & Son, Dr. Fletcher, Dr. Ballard, J. V. Brown, 
 
 Dr. Minor, Mrs, Koppelberger. 
 
60 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 254 — Cherry and Flint streets. The Brexton. 
 
 246 — North Main and Woodfin streets. Dr. Burroughs, W. H. 
 Owenbey. 
 
 235— East street. L. Maddux, J. H. McConnell, Colonel Woolsey, 
 Larkin Gwin. 
 
 172 — Atkin and Valley streets. Gas Works, Mrs. Glasser, County 
 Jail. 
 
 164 — South Main and City Limits. McDowell & Johnson, Miss 
 Comstock, Miss Vaughn, Normal and Collegiate Institute. 
 
 163 — Southside avenue and McDowell street. Carolina Wood- 
 working Co. 
 
 J 54 — Cocke's residence. William J. Cocke, H, T. Collins. 
 
 153 — Chestnut street and^Merrimon avenue. Mrs. Policy, G. W. 
 
 Pack, Mrs. Long, J. M. Westall, J. E. Rankin, T. F. Da- 
 vidson, Captain Budd, John Beattie, Miss Denne. 
 
 146 — Jefferson Drive and West Haywood street. Dr. Mebane, Dr. 
 Millender, Robinson. 
 
 145— Charlotte and Chestnut streets. Captain Patton, C. E. Gra- 
 ham, Winyah House, Mrs. Schirrmeister, H. M. Steele, 
 C. T. C. Deake. 
 
 138 -JNlontford avenue and Cullowhee street. C. W. Brown, Duff 
 Merrick, F. R. Grant, W. E. Collins, Mrs. Bestor, Miss 
 Sturdevant. 
 
 137 — North Main street and Starnes avenue. T. F. Malloy, Dr. 
 Starnes, The Brexton. 
 
 136 — College and Pine streets. Asheville Female College, Mission 
 
 Hospital, Oaks Hotel, J. S. Fullam. 
 128 — Chestnut street and Central avenue. Dr. Weaver, W. E. 
 
 Wolfe, T. C. Smith, J. H. Woody. 
 127 — Pine and Mountain streets. Ella Chapman, Belle Caldwell. 
 
 — From Keeler's Guide. 
 
 Street Lighting. 
 
 The public streets and highways of the city are lighted by 93 electric 
 lights, costing $96 per lamp per annum, under contract with the West 
 Asheville Improvement Company, the contract terminating in 1897. 
 
 Banks. 
 
 First National Bank — South Court square. Capital, $100,000. Sur- 
 plus, $20,000. Incorporated 1885. 
 
 President, W. E. Breese. Vice-President, R. R. Rawls. W. H. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 61 
 
 Penlaud, Cashier. Directors: W. E. Breese, R. R. Rawls, W. H. Pen- 
 land, G. W. Fletcher, J. E. Dickerson. 
 
 National Bank of AahevUle — Court square and Patton avenue. Capi- 
 tal, $100,000. Surplus, $20,000. 
 
 President, W. W. Barnard. Vice-President, Theo. F. Davidson. 
 Cashier, W. J. Cocke. 
 
 Incorporated as State bank in 1879, as National bank in 1888. 
 
 Directors: AY. W. Barnard, Theo. F. Davidson, W. J. Cocke, W. T. 
 Weaver, W. B. Williamson. 
 
 Battery Park Bank— Fatton avenue. Capital, $100,000. Surplus, 
 $14,000. Incorporated 1891. 
 
 President, J. P. Sawyer. Vice-President, O. M. Coxe. Cashier, 
 J. E. Rankin. Directors: J. P. Sawyer, O. M. Coxe, J. E. Rankin, 
 E. P. McKissick, Tenche Coxe, T. C. Smith, C. T. Rawls. 
 
 Western Carolina Bank— West Court Square. Capital, $50,000. Sur- 
 plus, $25,000. Incorporated 1888. 
 
 President, Lewis Maddux. Vice-President, M. J. Bearden. Cashier, 
 L. P. McCloud. Directors: Lewis Maddux, M. J. Bearden, L. P. JNIc- 
 Cloud, H. T. Collins, W. G. Smith, A. M. Field, J. D. Robertson, J. E. 
 Reed. 
 
 Blocks and Buildings. 
 
 Barnard Building, Court square and Patton avenue. 
 
 Campbell Building, Church street. 
 
 Dickerson Building, South Court square. 
 
 Drhumor Block, Patton avenue and Church street. 
 
 Featherston Building, West Court Square. 
 
 First National Bank Building, South Court square. 
 
 Hendry Block, North Court square. 
 
 Hilliard Building, South Main street. 
 
 Johnston Building, South Court square. 
 
 Legal Building, South Court square. 
 
 Maxwelton Block, Patton avenue. 
 
 Opera House Block, Patton avenue. 
 
 Paragon Building, Patton avenue and Haywood street. 
 
 Powell & Snider Building, Court square and Patton avenue. 
 
 Post-office, Patton avenue and Haywood. 
 
 Rawls' Block, East Court Square. 
 
 Sondley Building, Patton avenue and Church street. 
 
 Temple Court, Patton avenue. 
 
62 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINlTY A HANDBOOK 
 
 Halls. 
 
 Asheville Club, Patton avenue. 
 Armory, Court-house, third floor. 
 Campbell Hall, Church street. 
 Graud Opera House, Patton avenue. 
 Hilliard Hall, South Main street. 
 Masonic Hall, 33 Patton avenue. 
 
 " " (colored), 19 North Main street. 
 
 Jr. O. U. A. M. Hall, Paragon Building, corner Haywood and Pat- 
 ton avenue. 
 
 Y. M. C. A. Hall, 26 Patton avenue. 
 
 Y. M. I. Hall (colored), corner Market and Eagle streets. 
 
 Charitable Institutions. 
 
 . [For history of these, see History of Asheville, subject, Charities.] 
 Children's Home. (See History of Asheville, subject, Charities.) 
 
 Flower Mission — General oftice. City Hall; President, Mrs. W. F. 
 Grabau ; Secretary, Mrs. L. A Farinholt. Meets monthly, first Monday, 
 Haywood street. 
 
 Kiiidergarten Association — President, Mrs. J. G. Martin ; Secretary, 
 Mrs. Geo. T. Davis. Meets Y. M. C. A. Hall, monthly, third Monday, 
 4:30 p. M. 
 
 Lindley Training (Rescue) School — President, Mrs. A. E. Pease; Sec- 
 retary, Mrs. A. E. Lord. Board meets at Mrs. M. E. Hilliard's, South 
 Mains street. 
 
 Mission Hospital — Corner Charlotte and Woodfin streets. President, 
 Mrs. E. H. Morrison; Secretary, Mrs. M. E. Child; Treasurer, Miss 
 F. L. Patton. 
 
 Woman's Reformatory— Office, City Hall, Matron, Mrs. T. C. Collins. 
 
 Churches. 
 
 First Baptist Church — Cor. College and Spruce sts.; Kev. J. S. Felix, 
 D.D., pastor; J. H. Tucker, supt. S. S.; clerks: enrolling, J. B Sut- 
 tle; recording, E. B. Stradley ; receiving, J. L. Rich; treas., W. C. 
 Stradley ; church membership, 811; S. S. membership, 402. Morn- 
 ing service, 11; evening service, 8:30; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 French Broad Baptist — Cor. French Broad and Patton ave.; Rev. M. 
 A. Adams, pastor ; J. L. Wagner, supt. S. S.; L. P. Clark, clerk; J. L. 
 Wagner, treas.; membership, 100; S. S. membership, 50. Morning 
 service, 11; evening service, 8:30; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY — A HANDBOOK. 63 
 
 West E) id Baptist — Buxton st.; Rev. A. E. Brown, pastor; AV. E. 
 Logan, treas.; D. N. Durham, clerk; W. J. Hougli, supt. S. fe; 
 church membership, 200 ; S. S. membership, 125. Morning service, 
 11; evening service, 8:30; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 Christian Church — Cor, Woodfin and Spruce sts.; Rev. J. B. Dickson, 
 pastor; F. McCrary and Geo. W. Culburn, elders; F. B. Miles, supt. 
 S. S.; church membership, 37 ; S. S. membership, 40. Morning service, 
 11 ; evening service, 8:30 ; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 Trinity Episcopal Church — Church st.; Rev. McNeely Dubose, rector; 
 H. D. Child, supt. S. S,; wardens, T. W. Patton, J. H. Law; treas., 
 H. A. Miller; sec'y, J. H. Lee; church membership, 310; S. S. mem- 
 bership, 100. Morning service, 11; evening service, 6 ; S. S. service, 5. 
 
 Jewish Synngogue — Milliard Hall ; Congregation Beth Ha-Tephilla; A. 
 Whitlock, pres.; S. Lipinsky, treas.; B. Whitlock, sec'y; S. Lipinsky, 
 supt. S. S ; church membership, 23; 8. S. membership, 30. Morning 
 service, 11; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 Lutheran — St, Paul's Evano:elical Lutheran Church, services in Y, M, 
 O. A. Hall, Patton avenue ; Rev. C. B, King, pastor; J. M Roberts, 
 sec'y; A. Ottinger, treasurer; church membership, 52 ; S. S. member- 
 ship, 38. Morning service, 11; S. S. 9 : 30. 
 
 Central 3£ E, Church, South — Chwroh st.; Rev. C, W. Byrd, 
 D,D,, pastor; M, J. Bearden, chairman of board of stewards; C. W, 
 Brown, treas.; W. H Penlaud, supt. S. S.; church membership, 500; 
 S S. membership, 250. Morning service 11; evening service, 8:30 ; 
 S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 Haywood St M. E. Churrh. South — West Haywood and Bnttrick sts.; 
 
 Rev. M. A. Smith, pastor ; Wm. Turner, chairman board of stewards ; 
 
 J. A. Mims, sec'y and treas.; Wm. Turner, supt. S. S.; church mem- 
 bership, 225 ; S, S. membership, 250. Morning service, 11; evening 
 service, 8:30; S. S. service, 9:30, 
 
 North AsheviUe 31. E. Church, South— Cor. Center and West sts.; Rev. 
 E. L. Bain, pastor; J. H. Weaver, pres.; T. L. Hyndman, sec'y; J. H. 
 Weaver, supt. S. S.; church membership, 140; S. S. membership, 125, 
 Morning service, 11; evening service, 8:30; S. S, service, 9:30. 
 
 Bethel M. E. Church, South — Blanton st,; Rev. J. M. Downura, pastor ; 
 L. B. Alexander, supt. S. S; P. Mears, treas.; J. R, Baird, chairman 
 board of stewards ; church membership, 120; S. S, membership, 100, 
 Morning service, 11; evening service, 8:30 ; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 First Presbyterian Church — Church st.; Rev. R. F. Campbell, D.D., 
 pastor ; H. N. Lockwood, clerk of session ; , treasurer ; 
 
64 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 J. D. Murphy, supt. S. S.; church membership, 400; S. S. membership^ 
 175. Morning service, 11; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 Southside Presbyterian Church — Southside ave.; Rev. H. M. Parker, 
 pastor; A. T. Summey, clerk; J. B. Shoup, treasurer and supt. S, S.; 
 church membership, 35; S. S. membership, 100. Morning service, 11; 
 evening service and S. S., 4. 
 
 Oakland Heights Presbyterian Chwxh — Victoria, near Oakland Heights 
 Hotel ; Rev. J. H. Polhemus, pastor ; Samuel Jeffrey, elder ; church 
 membership, 90; S. S. membership, 275. Morning service, 11; even- 
 ing service, 8:30; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 St. Laivrence's Roman Catholic — Haywood st.; Rev. Father Marion, 
 priest; church membership, 300; S. S. membership, 75. Morning 
 service, 11 ; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 Unitarian Church — Meets in Hilliard Hall ; F. K. Gifford, pastor ; 
 trustees : Capt. Geo. T. Davis, J. M. Westall, John Law ; membership, 
 27. Morning service, 11. 
 
 First Baptist Church {colored) — Cor. Pine and Hazzard sts.; Rev. W. 
 T. Minter, D.D., pastor ; E. H, Lipscombe, supt. S. S.; church member- 
 ship, 500; S. S. membership, 200. Morning service, 11; day service, 3; 
 evening service, 8:30 ; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 Afount Zion Baptist Church (colored) — Cor. Eagle and Spruce sts.; 
 Rev. J. R. Nelson, pastor; E. H. Lipscombe, supt. S. S. Morning 
 service, 11; evening service, 8:30; S. S. service, 3. 
 
 A. M. E. Zion Church (colored) — Cor. College and Pine sts.; Rev. F. 
 M. Jacobs, pastor; Robert Hayden, sec'y and treas.; Thos. D, Leather- 
 wood, supt. S. S.; church membership, 500; S. S membership, 250. 
 Morning service, 11; day service, 3; evening service, 8:30; S. S.^ 
 service, 9:30. 
 
 A. M. E. Mission Church (colored) — Baily St., near Patton ave.; Rev. 
 L D. Hampton, pastor; Miss Mary Avery, supt. S. S.; church mem- 
 bership, 26 ; S. S. membership, 20. Morning service, 11; day service, 
 3; evening service, 8:30; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 A M. E. Church (colored) — Hildebrand St., near Pine; Rev. Jamea^ 
 Tate, j^astor ; Chas. Fowler, sec'y; Mrs. Emma Miller, treas.; Elijah 
 Scott, supt. S. S.; church membership, 116; S. S. membership, 67. 
 Morning service, 11 ; evening service, 7:30; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
 St. Matthias Episcopal (colored) — Cor. Beaumont and Valley ; H. S. 
 McDuffey, rector ; H. B. Bronn, sec'y; James ]\Iiller, senior warden ; 
 Sin Howard, treas.; church membership, 118; S. S. membership, 85. 
 Morning service, 11 ; evening service, 4:30 ; S. S. service, 9:30. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND VlCINITY A HANDBOOK. 65 
 
 M. E. Church {colored) — College street, near Pine ; Rev. G. W. More- 
 head, pastor; Mrs. A. E. Morehead, supt. S. S.; John Downs, treasurer; 
 Miss Lather Alexander, sec'y ; church membership, 70; S S. member- 
 ship, 156. Morning service, 11; evening service, 8:30; S. S. service, 
 9:30. 
 
 Calvary Presbyterian Oiurch (colored) — 103 Eagle st. ; Rev. C. B, 
 Dusenbury, pastor; Miss Mary Martin, sec'y; D. A. Leak, supt S. S.; 
 church membership, 60; S. S. membership, 100. Morning service, 11; 
 evening service, 8:30 ; S. S service, 9:30. 
 
 Bethany Presbyterian Church (colored) — West Haywood st. ; Rev. J. 
 S Morrow, pastor; C. J. Morrow, supt. S. S ; church membership, 75; 
 S. S. membership, 50. Morning service, 11; evening service, 8:30; 
 S, S. service, 3. 
 
 Cemetery. 
 
 Riverside Ceynetery — Western part of the city, overlooking the French 
 Broad river. Riverside Cemetery Association : President, T. W. Patton; 
 Secretary, M. J. Bearden. Incorporated 1885. 
 
 Coal Companies. 
 
 Asheville Ice and Coal Company — Office 32 Patton ave. ; President, 
 H. T. Collins ; Vice-President, W. E. Logan ; E. E. Eagan, Secretary 
 and Treasurer. 
 
 Carolina Coal Co. — 23 Patton ave. ; President, F. [M. Weaver ; Man- 
 ager, H. A. Miller. 
 
 The Citizen Coal Co. — Office, Waddell & Sluder, Drhumor Block. 
 
 Moody's Coal and Wood Yard. — East Court square; Manager, C. 
 Moody. 
 
 Library. 
 
 Library Association — Building, Church street ; President, Geo. S. Pow- 
 ell ; Secretary, Miss H. A. Champion; Treasurer, W. B. Williamson; 
 Librarian, Miss E J. Hatch. Library open 10 to 1, mornings; after- 
 noons, April to October, 4 to 7 ; October to April, 3 to 6. 
 
 For full description, see History of Asheville. 
 
 Newspapers. 
 
 Daily Citizen — Afternoon, daily and semi-weekly; Legal Block, South- 
 east Court square. 
 
 Gazette — Morning, daily, 4 N Court place. 
 
 State Begister — Weekly, South Court place. 
 
 Neiv Era — Weekly, South Court place. 
 
 Neivs and Hotel Beporter — Weekly, 5 N. Court place. 
 
^6 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Colored Enterprise — Weekly, S. Court Place. 
 Epworth News — Semi-monthly, E. Court Place. 
 Tar-Heel Knight— Koni\Ay , N. Court Place. 
 Fuller's Gleaner — Occasionally, E. Court Place. 
 
 Notaries Public 
 
 A. S. Barnard, P. H. Branch, Neptune Buckner, Frank Carter, W. 
 M. Clarke, Roy T. Denison, S. T. Dorsett, L. A. Farinholt, W. B. 
 Gwyn, G. L. Hackney, T. A. Jones, A. J. Lyman, L. P. McLoud, 
 Duff Merrick, J. B. Merrimon, Fred Moore, Haywood Parker, William 
 Schoeuheit, W. E. Shuford, J. W. Summers, F. W. Thomas, J. H. 
 Tucker, J. W. Whitson. 
 
 Organizations. 
 
 ClubSf Societies^ Leagues, Etc. 
 
 [For description of many of the following clubs, etc., see History of 
 Asheville.] 
 
 Asheville Club. 
 Rooms, third floor Drhumor Building. President, W. W. West ; 
 Secretary, E. I. Holmes. 
 
 Asheville Orchestra. 
 C. N. Webster, manager. Meets every Wednesday 8:30 p. m., Y. 
 M. C. A. rooms. 
 
 American Order United Workmen. 
 Council No. 2, meets North Court square. 
 
 Carpenters' Union. 
 Meets Jr. O. U. A. M. Hall, Paragon Building, Tuesday nights. 
 
 Christian Endeavor, 
 Meets every Sunday 7 : 30 p. m.. First Presbyterian church. 
 
 Clerks' Union. 
 President, F. L. Goldsmith ; Secretary, J. O. Blair. Meets Hilliard 
 Hall every other Tuesday. 
 
 Democratic Club. 
 Rooms, 13 S. Main, Johnston Building, 3d floor. 
 
 Epworth Leagues. 
 Central Epworth Leat^ite— Central M. E. Church, Sunday nights be- 
 fore service. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 67 
 
 W. AshevlUe League — W. Asheville M. E. Church, Rev. E. L. Bain. 
 Meets Sunday nights before service. 
 
 Bethel League — Bethel M. E. Church, Rev. J. M. Downum. Meets 
 Friday nights. 
 
 Haywood Street League — Haywood Street M. E. Church, Rev. W. H. 
 Willis. Meets Sunday nights before service. 
 
 Golden Cross. 
 Meets in Starnes's undertaker's office, N. Main, 1st and 3d Thurs- 
 days. 
 
 Grand Army of the Republic. 
 
 Marion Roberts Post No. 41. Commander, W. H. Deaver; Adju- 
 tant, Otto Hildebrand ; meets 4th day each month, 12 m., No. 12 North 
 
 Court square. 
 
 Independent Order Heptasophs. 
 
 Asheville Conclave No. 405, meets Campbell Building, Church 
 
 street, 2d and 4th Mondays. 
 
 Independent Order Odd Fellows. 
 
 Swannanoa Lodge No. 5 — Meets Campbell Building, Church street, 
 Tuesdays. 
 
 Asheville Encampment No. 2 — Meets Campbell Building, Church 
 street, 1st and 3d Fridays. 
 
 Sul'phiiY Sjyrings Lodge — West Asheville. 
 
 Junior Order United American Mechanics. 
 Asheville Council, No. 6. Meets Monday nights, Paragon Building. 
 
 Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order. 
 Land of the Sky Senate No. 817. Campbell Hall, monthly. 
 
 Knights of Honor. 
 
 Swannanoa Lodge, No. 646. Meets every 1st and 3d Mondays, Hil- 
 
 liard Hall. 
 
 Knights and Ladies of Honor. 
 
 Blue Ridge Lodge No. 1799. Meets Lindsey's studio, Tuesdays. 
 
 Knights of Pythias. 
 
 Pisgah Lodge No. 32. Meets Hilliard Hall, Thurdays. 
 
 Knights of Pythias (Colored). 
 
 Eureka Lodge No. 3. Meets Masonic Hall, 19 N. Main street, 1st 
 
 -and 3d Fridays. 
 
 Lawyers' Library Association. 
 
 President, J. G. Merrimon. Rooms, Legal Block. 
 
68 ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Masonic Fraternities. 
 
 Ml Hermon Lodge No. 118— A. F. and A. M. Meets Masonic Hall, 
 33 Patton avenue, 1st Thursday. 
 
 Asheville Lodge No. ^10— A. F. and A. M. Meets Masonic Hall, 3d 
 Thursday. 
 
 Asheville Chapter No. 25 — Meets Masonic Hall, 2d Thursday, 
 
 Cyrene Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 5 — Meets Masonic Hall, 
 
 4th Thursday. 
 Alpha Lodge of Perfection — A. and A. S., monthly. 
 
 Colored, 
 
 Venus Lodge No. 62. — Meets Masonic Hall, 19 N. Main street, 2d and 
 4th Mondays. 
 
 Beaidy of the West No. J^O — Meets Masonic Hall, 19 N. Main street, 
 1st and 3d Mondays. 
 
 Medical Society of Buncombe County. 
 
 Meets 1st and 3d Mondays, City Hall, 8:30 p. m. President, Dr. L. 
 B. McBrayer ; Secretary, Dr. J. H. Woodcock. 
 
 Military Companies. 
 
 Asheville Light Infantry — Captain T. W. Bookhart ; First Lieuten- 
 ant, R. S. Stewart ; Second Lieutenant, A. E. Rankin. Meets in Ar- 
 mory every Friday night. 
 
 National Union. 
 
 Beaumont Council No. 589. Meets 2d Friday, K. of P. Hall. 
 
 Royal Arcanum. 
 
 French Broad Council No. 701. Meets 2d and 4th Monday nights, 
 
 Hilliard Hall. 
 
 ■Republican Club. 
 
 Rooms, 9 S. W. Court square, 3d floor. 
 
 Society Prevention Cruelty to Animals. 
 
 President, Dr. A. M. Ballard; Secretary, AV. S. Cushman. Meets 
 4:30 p. M., No. 2 Legal Block, 1st Tuesday. 
 
 Sons United Confederate Veterans. 
 
 Meets at Battery Park Hotel. Commander, E. P. McKissick ; Sec- 
 retary, C. F. Ray. 
 
 Swannanoa Country Club. 
 
 Rooms, Club House, Battery Park Hill ; Hunting Lodge, 2| miles 
 southwest of the city. President, Dr. S. Westray Battle ; Secretary^ 
 J. P. Arthur. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 69 
 
 Typographical Union. 
 Meets Citizen Office, 1st Monday each month. 
 
 United Confederate Veterans. 
 
 Zebulon Vance Encampment. Commander, Colonel J. M. Ray; Ad- 
 jutant, AY. ^y. West. Meets 22d day each month, 11a. m., Hilliard 
 Hall. 
 
 White Cross Society. 
 
 President, T. W. Patton ; Secretary, L. B. Alexander ; Treasurer, 
 George L. Hackney. Meets 3d Tuesday each month, Y. M. C. A. rooms 
 8:30 p. M. 
 
 Woman's Christian Temperance Union. 
 
 Meets Y. M. C. A. rooms, 4:30 p. m. last Thursday each month- 
 President, Mrs. M. A. Hilliard ; Secretary, Miss J. P. Spear. 
 
 Woodmen of the World. 
 
 Balsam Camp No. 1. Meets 2d and 4th Wednesdays, 39 Patton ave. 
 
 Young Men's Christian Association. 
 
 Rooms, Patton avenue. President, W. A. Blair ; Secretary, J. P. 
 Kerr ; Treasurer, J. H. Weaver ; General Secretary, O. B. Van Horn. 
 
 Young Men's Christian Association (Ladies' Auxiliary). 
 
 President, Miss Susie Yeatman ; Secretary, Miss M. A. Garrett ; 
 Treasurer, Miss Mollie Erwin. Meets 2d Monday each month, Y. M. C. 
 A. rooms, 4 : 30 p. m. 
 
 Points of Interest 
 
 With their Distance from Asheville. 
 
 Miles. 
 
 Armstrong's Chalybeate Springs 2 
 
 Battery Park in the city 
 
 Beaumont, altitude 2,800 feet in the city 
 
 Bingham Heights 3 
 
 Fernihurst (Connally's View) 2 
 
 Senator Vance's Grave 2 
 
 Hazzard Heights 3 
 
 Oakland Heights 1 
 
 Riverside Park 3 
 
 Richmond Hill^ (Pearson's View) 3 
 
 Sunset Drive 3 
 
 Tahkeeostah Farm 1 
 
70 ASHEVILLE AND VlCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Miles, 
 
 Tennanfs View 5 
 
 Tof) of Town Mountain 1 
 
 Vanderbilt Park 4 
 
 Woodfin Mountain 2 
 
 Elk Mountain 5 
 
 Hendersonville 21 
 
 Gouche's Peak (Reynold's View) 5 
 
 Strawberry Hill (Clark's Farm) 4 
 
 French Broad River (nearest point) 1 
 
 " " '* with drives of 50 
 
 Swannanoa River (nearest point) 2 
 
 *' " with drives of 16 
 
 Sulphur Springs 5 
 
 Blackwell's White Sulphur Springs 12 
 
 Dula's Springs 10 
 
 Arden Park 10 
 
 Reems' Creek Falls 10 
 
 Alexander 10 
 
 Craggy Mountain (to foot) 14 
 
 (to top, 6,000 feet) m 
 
 Mount Mitchell (to foot) 18 
 
 " '' (to top, 6,717 feet) 27 
 
 Hot Springs, on French Broad River 31 
 
 Waynesville, White Sulphur Springs 32 
 
 Hickory Nut Fall 25 
 
 Bald Mountain (of volcanic notoriety) 28^ 
 
 Cave of Winds, Pools, Chimney Rock, etc 28 
 
 Pisgah Mountain (5,757) 25 
 
 Swannanoa Gap 15 
 
 Caesar's Head . 40 
 
 — From Keeler's Guide. 
 
ASHEVILLE AND ViCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 71 
 
 RATES AND DISTANCES. 
 
 DESTINATION. 
 
 Aii.^nsta, Ga 
 
 Atlanta, Ga 
 
 Savannah, Ga. 
 St. Augustine, Fla 
 Columbia, S. C . . 
 Charleston, S. C. . 
 
 Macon, Ga 
 
 Birmingham, Ala. 
 New Orleans, La.. 
 Knoxville, Tenn . . . 
 Chattanooga, Tenn 
 Nashville, Tenn. . . 
 Memphis, Tenn. . . , 
 Louisville, Ky .... 
 
 Cincinnati, O 
 
 St. Louis, Mo 
 
 Chicago, 111 
 
 Ealeigh, N. C 
 
 Salisbury, N. C. . . . 
 
 Rate. 
 
 Dist- 
 
 
 ance. 
 
 .$ 7 05 
 
 205 
 
 8 55 
 
 2()2 
 
 10 55 
 
 ;3()5 
 
 17 20 
 
 480 
 
 5 25 
 
 1(53 
 
 9 50 
 
 293 
 
 10 80 
 
 359 
 
 11 75 
 
 429 
 
 22 20 
 
 757 
 
 4 10 
 
 128 
 
 7 45 
 
 240 
 
 12 20 
 
 401 
 
 16 75 
 
 550 
 
 12 10 
 
 394 
 
 12 55 
 
 442 
 
 20 10 
 
 817 
 
 20 10 
 
 747 
 
 8 80 
 
 272 
 
 4 ()0 
 
 141 
 
 DESTINATION. 
 
 Charlotte, N. C . . . . 
 Wilmington, N. C. . . 
 Greensboro, N. C. . . 
 
 Danville, Va 
 
 Lynchburg, Va , 
 
 Charlottesville, Va.. 
 
 Richmond, Va 
 
 Washington, D. C. . . 
 
 Baltimore, Md 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. . . . 
 New York, N. Y . . . . 
 
 Boston, Mass 
 
 Buffalo, N. Y 
 
 Pittsburgh, Pa 
 
 Norfolk, Va . 
 
 Old Pt. Comfort, Va. 
 Jacksonville, Fla. . . . 
 Goldsboro, N. C... 
 
 Ral 
 
 te. 
 
 $ 4 
 
 90 
 
 10 
 
 70 
 
 6 
 
 20 
 
 7 
 
 80' 
 
 9 
 
 80 
 
 11 
 
 55 
 
 12 
 
 10 
 
 14 
 
 95 
 
 10 
 
 15 
 
 18 
 
 95 
 
 21 
 
 45 
 
 27 
 
 20 
 
 24 
 
 60 
 
 21 
 
 40 
 
 14 
 
 70 
 
 15 
 
 00 
 
 15 
 
 70 
 
 10 45 
 
 Dist- 
 ance. 
 
 185 
 404 
 190 
 239 
 305 
 365 
 380 
 478 
 520 
 615 
 705 
 939 
 942 
 853 
 455 
 465 
 444 
 320 
 
 -%^i ..-4. 
 
 
 
 
 BATTERY PARK HOTEL 
 
72 
 
 ASHEVILLE AND VlCINITY A HANDBOOK. 
 
 Boarding Houses. 
 
 The Aldine, 53 Spruce. 
 The Allen House, 179 S. Main 
 Mrs. E. C. Alsbrook, 156 Chestnut 
 The Arverne, 45 French Broad ave 
 Mrs. L. M. Anderson, 485 Depot 
 Mrs. T. E. Barker, 15 Starnes ave 
 Mrs. A. T. Easier, 40 French Broad 
 
 ave 
 C. E. Bealle, 55 College 
 The Bonair, G. L. McDonald 
 
 propr, 74 Bailey 
 Mrs R. E. Bowles, 268 College 
 Mrs. T. W. Branch, 14 Starnes 
 
 ave 
 Mrs. E. H. Breese, 103 Montford 
 
 ave 
 The Brexton, 11 Starnes ave 
 Mrs. R. V. Brown, 13 Starnes ave 
 W. K. Caldwell, 201 Park ave 
 Mrs. B. Claverie, 62 Meririnon ave 
 Mrs. Emma Clifton, 6 Marjorie 
 Mrs. Lucetta V. Cole, 23 Penland 
 Miss A. E. Comstock, Victoria 
 Mrs. M. J. Davis, 67 N Main 
 Mrs Emily Dawson, Sunset Drive 
 Miss C. A Doughty, Hillside Cot- 
 tage, Sunset Drive 
 Mrs Leah I. Drake, 48 Spruce 
 Mrs. Lula Elmore, 55 Spring 
 The Everett House, 122 Patton ave 
 Mrs L E. Freeman, 641 S Main 
 Mrs. L S. Grant, 99 College 
 Mrs. Mary Gooch, 146 Roberts 
 Mrs. M R Graves, 99 Haywood 
 Mrs. Theodosia Hamlet, 71 N Main 
 Miss Anna Y. Haynes, 54 Clayton 
 Mrs. Mattie M. Hood, 115 Hay- 
 wood 
 
 Mrs. Jennie Joyner, 12 N Ct Sq 
 Mrs. G. W. Justice, 6 S Spruce 
 G. W. Justice, 42 Bailey 
 Mrs. C. Koppelberger, 31 Grove 
 Mrs. M. A. LaBarbe, 158 Chestnut 
 Mrs. J. A. Lee, 26 Flint 
 
 Mrs. H. N. Lowell, 77 Charlotte 
 Mrs C. C. McCarty, 24 Bailey 
 W. N. McGuinn, 527 W Haywood 
 Margo Terrace, French Broad ave, 
 
 s w cor Haywood 
 Miss E. V. Martin, 167 N Main 
 Mrs. Carrie Mitchell, 41 Spruce 
 S. W. Mitchell, 53 W College 
 Wm. L. Moore, 58 N Main 
 Mountain Cottage 
 R. O. Neville, 46 and 48 S Main 
 Oak Grove, Mrs. C. E. Templeton, 
 
 102 Park ave 
 Mrs. Mary O'Connor, 455 Depot 
 Mrs L. J. Owens, 234 N Main 
 P. A. Ownbey, 74 Grove 
 Mrs. C. M. Piatt, n e cor College 
 
 and Vance 
 Mrs. H. E. Policy, 82 Chestnut 
 Mrs. H. B. Ray, 19 S Main 
 Mrs. Mattie Rickman, 339 S Main 
 Rammoth, Mrs. A. C. Ray, propr, 
 
 1^ miles from Asheville, N 
 
 Woolsey 
 Mrs. Lizzie Ryan, 28 Eagle Terrace 
 C E. Satterthwait, Villa Roy, 
 
 Sunset Drive 
 Mrs. Marie Schirmeister, Sunset 
 
 Drive 
 Mrs F. McD. Sorrell, 88 N Main 
 G. W. Stephens, 59 to 63 N Main 
 Mrs. S. Terry, 161 N Main 
 William Turner, 57 Church 
 Mrs. C. E. Vader, 38 Penland 
 Mrs. Elva A. VanGilder, 73 Col- 
 lege 
 Miss Emma Vaughn, Forrest Hill, 
 
 Victoria 
 H. West, 79 N Main 
 Mrs. Annie E. Wilburn, 202 Park 
 
 ave 
 Mrs. H. D. Woodson, 159 Bailey 
 Mrs. E. H. Wright, 88 College 
 

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 53 Fatten Ave. 
 
 ASHEVILLE, N. C. 
 
 Telephone 232. 
 
 COMMISSION EXECUTED ON.... 
 
 New York Stock Exchange, 
 New York Cotton Exchange, 
 New Orleans Cotton Exchange, 
 Chicago Board of Trade. 
 
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 IS NEVER DONE, 
 
 But we can make it much 
 
 easier. 
 
 . . . Send 3'our Linen to . . . 
 
 Asheville Steam Laundry, 
 
 43 West College Street. 
 
 We have a special express rate 
 and pay charges one way. 
 
 R AINBRIDGE'S . 
 
 18 South Main Street, 
 
 For Fine STATIONERY , 
 
 BOOKS, ENGRAVING 
 
 R. S. SMITH, 
 
 ..Architect.. 
 
 Paragon Building, Patton Ave. Phone 283. 
 
 Eight years with the late Mr. K. M. Hunt; six years the resident Architect 
 
 for iJiltmore House and the estate of Geo. W. Vander- 
 
 bilt, Esq., Biltmore. 
 
 The Brb^yton, 
 
 ASHRVILIvE, N. C. 
 
 Those who contemplate visiting Asheville will find THE BREXTON 
 a cheerful and comfortable home. 
 
 It is new throughout, lighted by electricity and heated by furnaces. 
 
 Electric bells and open fires in every room. 
 
 Menu sent on application. For further information address 
 
 MRS. J. L. ALEXANDER, Starnes Avenue.