Asheville History

This Memorial Day weekend, we remember First Lt. Lawrence Loughran—the first Asheville soldier killed in WWI and buried at Riverside Cemetery.

How the 13-floor Jackson Building wound up in Western North Carolina urban legends and on ghost tours.

Recognized by Guinness World Records, Benny and Billy McCrary, or McGuire, were famous showmen and wrestlers, wowing audiences with their immense size, each weighing over 700 pounds.

The home of William Jennings Bryan, the famed orator and three-time Democratic presidential nominee, is in Asheville, N.C. near the Grove Park Inn.