A story that runs from Asheville’s tuberculosis era to Thomas Wolfe’s fiction and early American horror.
Meet Amos Owens, the Cherry Bounce King of North Carolina, whose moonshine legacy and infamous mountain parties made him a folk legend on Cherry Mountain in the late 1800s.
A Revolutionary War pension file and a Canton gravesite connect Thomas Abel’s Virginia enlistment to his final resting place in Haywood County.
A roadside marker near Brevard recalls a vanished Cherokee village and a legend that still raises questions.
A marble figure, lost to ivy in summer and revealed each winter, is tied to a Southern literary legacy.
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.