Subscribe to Blog via Email
-
Recent Posts
- Moving on Up to Pisgah Heights: The Whisnants in West Asheville April 17, 2018
- The Down Side of the Land of the Sky: The Rudisills in Asheville and West Asheville, 1922-1951 August 2, 2017
- The Several Lives of West Asheville, Part III: Edwin Carrier in West Asheville April 19, 2017
- The Several Lives of West Asheville, Part II: Edwin G. Carrier Before West Asheville November 15, 2016
- The Several Lives of West Asheville, Part I: Sulphur Springs as Proto-Land of the Sky, 1827-1861 September 11, 2016
- Cotton Mill Colic vs. the Land of the Sky: From Gastonia to Asheville May 12, 2016
- Family Challenges in the ‘Teens: A Strike, a Flood, and an Epidemic March 4, 2016
- A Document Answers Some Questions (and Raises New Ones) February 27, 2016
- Glimpses into the Daily Lives of the Whisnants January 23, 2016
- Working Class Family Behind the Big House: Asbury, Ella, and Their Children: 1907-1918 November 14, 2015
Archives
Recent Comments
- Richard Whisnant on Moving on Up to Pisgah Heights: The Whisnants in West Asheville
- Norma Bowen Smith on Whisnants on the Move: Germany, Lancaster County PA and the Great Wagon Road
- Joe L. Whisnant jr on Whisnants on the Move: Germany, Lancaster County PA and the Great Wagon Road
- DallasChief on Whisnants on the Move: Germany, Lancaster County PA and the Great Wagon Road
- David Whisnant on The Several Lives of West Asheville, Part I: Sulphur Springs as Proto-Land of the Sky, 1827-1861
Categories
Tags
- Asbury Whisnant
- Asheville entrepreneurs
- Battery Park Hotel
- Black stereotypes
- Broughton Hospital
- Brownwood Avenue
- Buncombe County NC
- Burke County NC
- Caesar's Head
- Caldwell County NC
- Cherokee Indians
- Christian Reid
- Civil War
- Eagle Hotel
- Flood of 1916
- French Broad River
- Great Wagon Road
- Hickory Nut Gap
- Hillbilly stereotypes
- Hotels and inns
- Hudson River School
- John Gray Blount
- Lancaster County PA
- Land of the Sky
- Local color
- McDowell County NC
- Mountain landscapes
- Old Fort NC
- Pack Square
- Paint Rock
- Riverside Park
- Rutherford County NC
- Salisbury NC
- Sarah Ella Whisnant
- Slavery
- Spas and watering places
- Streetcars and buses
- Sulphur Springs
- Swannanoa Hotel
- Swannanoa River
- Swannanoa Tunnel
- Tench Coxe
- Warm [Hot] Springs NC
- West Asheville
- Western North Carolina Railroad
Tag Archives: Plank roads
Into the Asheville Bowl: Channels and Streams
Having in the previous post delineated at least some major features of Asheville’s geophysical situation (elevation, rings of mountains, rivers, gaps), the eradication and removal of the Cherokees, and early land speculation, we move to consider the streams themselves (demographic and otherwise) … Continue reading