“Sold French Broad to Asheville Man,” reads the headline of a Sept. 15, 1905 article in the Asheville Citizen.
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“Sold French Broad to Asheville Man,” reads the headline of a Sept. 15, 1905 article in the Asheville Citizen.
N.C. needs honest criticism—rather than the false, shallow “we-are-the-finest-state-and-greatest-people-in-the-country”—kind of thing.
A new exhibit at Mars Hill University’s Rural Heritage Museum, titled “How the West Was Won: Trains and the Transformation of Western North Carolina, 1880-1937,” documents the engineering achievements and mortal sacrifices that marked the coming of the railroad to the area.