Millers Asheville Buncombe County Nc City Directory PDF Download

Excerpt from Miller's Asheville (Buncombe County, N. C.) City Directory, 1948-49, Vol. 44: Including Beverly Hills, Biltmore, Biltmore Forest, Broadview, East Biltmore, Lake View Park, Linwood Park, Oakley, Oaklyn Park, Sayles Village and South Biltmore; Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens Asheville was founded in 1797 by John Burton, and was known for about three years of its early history as Morris town. The name was later changed to Asheville, in honor of Samuel and John Ashe, noted men of that period. The city has long been a resort center, the first resort hotel having been constructed near the Sulphur Springs in the western part of the city, west of the French [broad River. Later the tourist traffic increased and other resort hotels were built, including the old Battery Park Hotel on the site now occupied by the modern structure. Other hotels have been constructed with the growth of tourist trade, through expansion of transportation facilities, including railways and highways into the highlands. Industry and agriculture also have developed in. The mountain section, to the point that Asheville has become a marketing and shopping center for 20 counties of western North Carolina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.