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As of Wednesday afternoon, North Carolina was working on identifying four bodies, he said. The state has now confirmed 115 deaths from Helene, and the sheriff of Buncombe County has counted 72 ...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — As Helene battered western North Carolina, residents in Asheville were heartbroken after seeing floodwaters lift cars, trucks, billboards, and homes.. Syd Yatteau, with her ...
Firestone helped establish the company's supply and service stores, and guided its operations during World War II. [2] He was also president of the Firestone Foundation. Firestone married Elizabeth Parke Firestone in 1921. They had four children: Elizabeth, Anne, Martha, and Harvey Samuel III.
Megan Drye was sheltering at the top of the home she shared with her parents and her 7-year-old son as the waters from Hurricane Helene rose around them last week in Asheville, N.C.
Exterior of the headquarters, 2012. Founded in 1870 as a weekly, the North Carolina Citizen [4] became a daily newspaper in 1885. Writers Thomas Wolfe, O. Henry, both buried in Asheville, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, a frequent visitor to Asheville, frequently could be found in the newsroom in earlier days.
The Piedmont Triad (or simply the Triad) is a metropolitan region in the north-central part of the U.S. state of North Carolina anchored by three cities: Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point. This close group of cities lies in the Piedmont geographical region of the United States and forms the basis of the Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High ...
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), billionaire who created the Biltmore Estate in the North Carolina mountains; it is the largest privately owned mansion in the Western Hemisphere and North Carolina's top tourist attraction (Asheville) Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), president of Georgia Tech, inventor and civil rights advocate ...
Asheville, North Carolina – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [88] Pop 2010 [89] Pop 2020 [90] % 2000 ...