Downtown Asheville City Street Scene II
by Carol Montoya
Title
Downtown Asheville City Street Scene II
Artist
Carol Montoya
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Downtown Asheville city at the corner of N Pack Square and S Market Street across for Vance Memorial. Asheville is a tourist destinations for the Smoky Mountains, Biltmore Estate, and it beer. Listed as one of the weirdest city in America.
The Asheville City building is a colorful, massive and eclectic Art Deco style by Douglas D. Ellington. Many buildings throughout downtown are in this style and well as Neo-Georgian.
"Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 11th largest city in North Carolina. The city's population was 83,393 according to the 2010 United States census. It is the principal city in the four-county Asheville metropolitan area, with a population of 424,858 in 2010. Asheville is home to the United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the world's largest active archive of weather data.HistoryOriginsBefore the arrival of the Europeans, the land where Asheville now exists lay within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation. In 1540, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto came to the area, bringing the first European visitors along with European diseases, which seriously depleted the native population. The area was used as an open hunting ground until the middle of the 19th century.The history of Asheville, as a town, began in 1784. In that year, Colonel Samuel Davidson and his family settled in the Swannanoa Valley, redeeming a soldier's land grant from the state of North Carolina. Soon after building a log cabin at the bank of Christian Creek, Davidson was lured into the woods by a band of Cherokee hunters and killed. Davidson's wife, child and female slave fled on foot overnight to Davidson's Fort (named after Davidson's father General John Davidson) 16 miles away."
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