WNC History: Beacon Manufacturing and a Swannanoa fiddling phenom
When Beacon owner Charles D. Owen heard Marcus Martin’s fiddling, he offered him a job on the spot and his family a place to live in the mill village.
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Lula Owl Gloyne, 1st RN and 1st World War I officer from Cherokee
Lula Owl, the first member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to become an RN, arrived in S. Dakota in 1916 for her first paid nursing position.
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Journey started in Asheville for 1st US woman to earn medical degree
Elizabeth Blackwell set out to prove that women were just as qualified as any man to study and practice medicine.
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WNC History: Integration at Black Mountain College
The college, founded in 1933 at Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, discussed the subject of race throughout its 24-year history.
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WNC History: 'Black Mountain Blues' at Roseland Gardens
Folks from as far away as Asheville, Old Fort, and Marion were regularly making their way up the narrow dirt road to the Brookside community.
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