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Asheville
Art Museum | Asheville-Buncombe
Library | UNC
Asheville |
YMI
Cultural Center
Appalachian
State University |Appalachian
Cultural Museum |Southern
Highland Craft Guild
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OLD FORT |
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| "After winding through a beautiful valley, and a moment after fording the mill fork of Catawba river, I found myself in the little village of Old Fort. Its houses line a wide street, running parallel with the Western North Carolina railroad, and range along several short cross streets. A wooded hill rises back of it. During the Revolutionary War and after, a fort with a strong stockade, enclosing a spring, stood on the bank of the stream. There were no battles fought here, but many depredations by Cherokees occurred, in which several people were killed in the vicinity. It is from this fort that the town takes its name." (1883, Ziegler, Wilbur and Ben Grosscup. In the Heart of the Alleghanies..., p. 246) | |
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