Topics Related to Historical Markers

Asheville Normal School (P-61)

Presbyterian. Opened 1887 as Home Industrial School. Teacher's College 1892-1944. Stood nearby.

Sherrill's Inn (P-60)

Est. by Bedford Sherrill, 1834. Served travelers crossing Hickory Nut Gap until 1909. Stands 300 yards south.

Forestry School (P-59)

First U.S. school of forestry. Established 1898 by Dr. C. A. Schenck, chief forester, Biltmore estate. Location until 1909 was nearby.

N.C. Education Association (P-58)

Organized in 1884 as N.C. Teachers Assembly in the White Sulphur Springs Hotel. Building was one mile northwest.

Confederate Armory (P-57)

Manufactured Enfield-type rifles. In 1863 plant moved to Columbia, S.C. Building was located 1/4 mi. SE. Burned in 1865.

University of N.C. at Asheville (P-56)

Established 1927; became Asheville-Biltmore College 1936. Moved here in 1961. A campus of The University of North Carolina, 1969.

Stoneman's Raid (P-55)

Southern troops turned back Stoneman's U.S. cavalry, raiding through western North Carolina, at Swannanoa Gap, near here, April 20, 1865.

William Moore (P-54)

Captain of militia force which marched against the Cherokee in Nov., 1776. A fort which he built stood near here. His home was 200 yds. E.

Sulphur Springs (P-53)

Health & social resort during the nineteenth century; patronized by low-country planters. Springs are 600 yds. S.

George Trenholm (P-52)

Confederate Secretary of Treasury, 1864-65; S.C. legislator, cotton broker and financier. Summer home "Solitude" stood 1/2 mile east.