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Weaver College, founded in 1851 as Weaverville College, was a co-educational Methodist academy located in Weaverville. It was founded on land gifted by the town's founder, Montraville Weaver, and operated from 1873 to 1934 before being merged with Rutherford College to form modern-day Brevard College .
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.
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.
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 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.
Foster's Log Cabin Court (now the Log Cabin Motor Court) is located at 330-332 Weaverville Road in Woodfin, North Carolina, about five miles north of the City of Asheville. [1] One of the first auto-oriented tourism facilities in the Asheville area, it features a number of one and two bedroom Rustic Revival log cabins and a dining lodge. [ 2 ]
Weaverville, North Carolina: Coordinates ... North Carolina. Description and history. The earliest log section was built about 1845, and forms the rear ell. It was ...
The Hoyle Historic Homestead, also known as Hoyle Family Homestead, Peter Hoyle House, and Pieter Hieyl Homeplace, is a mid- to late-18th century two-story house in Gaston County, North Carolina, with notable German-American construction features, the main block of which reflects two, and possibly three, phases, but the exact construction dates have not been determined.