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1899 Weaver family reunion in Weaverville, North Carolina. John Weaver maintained friendly relations with the local Cherokee in the valley and built an Indigenous-style house, before purchasing 320 acres of land to construct a European log cabin as his family's permanent residence. [12] [13]
North Carolina's Civil War governor, Zebulon B. Vance, was born in the nearby Reems Creek community. [5] Reems Creek itself flows through Weaverville adjacent to the town's Lake Louise Park. The mill at Reem's Creek was portrayed in "Picturesque America," a famous 19th century work of illustrated American scenes published in 1872.
Urban American cities, such as New York City, have used policies of urban homesteading to encourage citizens to occupy and rebuild vacant properties. [1] [2] Policies by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development allowed for federally owned properties to be sold to homesteaders for nominal sums as low as $1, financed otherwise by the state, and inspected after a one-year period. [3]
Zebulon Baird Vance was born on the property in 1830, and went on to be Governor of North Carolina (1877–1879) and U.S. Senator (1879–1894). The farm features an exhibit about Vance's career, and how this early mountain life influenced him.
The Joseph P. Eller House is a historic home located at Weaverville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1880, and is a two-story, frame I-house dwelling. It consists of a two-story main block with two-story portico and two-story rear ell. Also on the property are a contributing spring house and barn. [2]
Buncombe County (/ ˈ b ʌ ŋ k ə m / BUNK-um) [1] [2] is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.It is classified within Western North Carolina.The 2020 census reported the population was 269,452, making it the 7th-most populous county in North Carolina. [3]
Horne Creek Farm is a historical farm near Pinnacle, Surry County, North Carolina.The farm is a North Carolina State Historic Site that belongs to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, and it is operated to depict farm life in the northwest Piedmont area c. 1900.
Zebulon H. Baird House is a historic home located near Weaverville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1865, and is a two-story, "T"-plan Late Victorian style frame dwelling. It features elaborate detailing in its scrollwork and ornate chimneys with elaborate corbelling.