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ALLENSTAND COTTAGE INDUSTRIES
"This is a form of settlement work which began 'long before the present wave of prosperity had drawn near the mountains,' in the northwestern portion of Buncombe County 'away up on Little Laurel, near the Tennessee line...and close under the wild Bald mountains'.  It was 'formerly a stopping place or 'stand' for drovers who stopped overnight with their cattle, sheep, horses and swine' on their way from Tennessee to South Carolina.  Here old-fashioned spinning, weaving and dying were revived and are being taught." (1913, Morley p.226)