On Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what would become one of the most famous speeches in American history. “I Have a Dream,” King’s address to the 200,000–300,000 attendees of The March on Washington, remains a signature rallying cry for civil rights over 60 years later.
A horned lizard in a West Asheville liquor jar sparked an Asheville mystery in 1928.
She was a single line in an 1887 headline after a deadly railroad wreck. Today, Mary McDowell’s story survives in a stone in Riverside Cemetery and in the tragedy that stunned Asheville.
The land around Enka Commerce Park, home to the famed Enka Clock Tower, used to be known as Scratch Ankle, N.C.
A 1936 burial reflects a Western North Carolina tradition of handmade memorials.
Site of deep spiritual and historical significance has been outside tribal control for nearly 200 years
Founded in the late 19th century, Jones Temple AME Zion stands as a link to Waynesville’s historic Black community and one of the oldest church buildings still in use in Haywood County.
A Saluda man inherited responsibility for a family hearth fire locals say was kept alive from the Revolutionary era until 1944.
At Asheville’s Riverside Cemetery, a Biltmore-linked stonecutters memorial reveals a deeper story of labor, loss and unanswered questions.
Built from mountain stone and known for its Ben Long frescoes, Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church stands as one of Blowing Rock’s most enduring historic landmarks.