About Western North Carolina Heritage

Digital collections do not create themselves. They are assembled by people who make decisions, who describe, who catalog, who scan, and who spend many hours organizing information so it may be used by a variety of interested users. The collected work on these pages is here because of the hard work of collaborating institutions, staff, students, volunteers, and interns.
We thank them all.

SOME OF OUR PARTNERS

AAUW	Asheville YWCA
Beth Ha Tephila Congregation	Housing Authority City of Asheville
Carolina Mountain Club	French Broad River Garden Club
Westrn NC Historical Assoc.	Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Blue Ridge Parkway	National Forests in NC

A Sense of Place

Collections containing images, information and passages chosen from a number of nineteenth and early twentieth century books, periodicals, and documents. Selections have been chosen with an eye to well-known locations and topics in Western North Carolina. Many readers will recognize familiar locations, others will discover them for the first time. It is believed that all will understand the universal need for a "sense of place" and find in these selections a satisfaction that comes with knowing more of this place we call Western North Carolina

A Sense of Place - By Theme

E.M. Ball Collection of Photographs
 ASHEVILLE AND ENVIRONS
Over 6,000 photographs of Asheville and western NC

Architects
Architecture
Artists and Illustrators 
    to 1950
Arts & Crafts
Asheville
Biography
Bibliographies
   Books
   Periodicals
   Cherokee
   African American
Camps & Camping
Cherokee Artists
CHRONOLOGY
Civil War
Clubs
Counties
Education & Schools
Flora & Fauna
Forests & Forestry
Freemasonry
Gilded Age
Hotels & Lodgings

Asheville's Built Environment
Extensive records and photographs of Asheville's
architectural legacy

WNC Artists and Illustrators to 1950 &
Southern Appalachian Artists and Illustrators to 1950

The Civil War in
Western North Carolina
Bibliography, Notes, Civil War Trails ...

Featured

National Forests in North Carolina Historic Photographs

Images and documents from the dawn of forestry
A cooperative grant with the National Forests of North Carolina, US Department of Agriculture, Department of Forestry

Jewish Life in Western North Carolina
Jewish life, synagogues, and history in the Asheville area

Speculation Lands Collection

Deeds, maps, plats and correspondence related to the 444,000 + acre holdings of Tench Coxe and others.  1774 - 1923

WRITERS & MOUNTAINS
Web Exhibit of WNC - literature,
 geography, history
 

biltmore industries archive

A history of the early craft enterprise and Fred Loring Seely its creative director and steward.

NOT SO BACK OF BEYOND

URBAN ECHOES ON THE
BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY
WEB EXHIBIT

Black Highlanders Collection

The most extensive holdings of African American history
in western North Carolina

Sondley, F.A.
Asheville and Buncombe County
&
 Davidson, Theodore F..
Genesis of Buncombe County, 

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
MUSEUM + ART CENTER

Bulletins, photographs, documents, and publications related to  Black Mountain College, a progressive school that thrived in the Swannanoa Valley from 1933 - 1957

Travel and Tourism Literature

EXPLORE more collections held in the
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS at UNCA
Note that the Google local search above will search across both
WNC Heritage and Special Collections

The Mountain Dance and Folk Festival
&
Shindig On The Green
Mountain music and dance in the heart of Asheville, NC

 PACK: A NAME THAT WILL ENDURE
A Web Exhibit - History of Pack Square
D.H. Ramsey Library
& Pack Square Conservancy


Geo. W. Pack, engraving by
Sidney L. Smith of Boston, 1883

US Forest Service Photographs

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*The Heritage of Western North Carolina - Asheville's Built Environment project is 100% supported with federal LSTA funds made possible through  a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources and guided by NC ECHO.


North Carolina ECHO, Exploring Cultural Heritage Online is the World Wide Web doorway to the special collections
of North Carolina's libraries, archives, museums, and historic sites.

Copyright (C) 2005. University of North Carolina at Asheville. All rights reserved by WNC Heritage collaborators. Maintained by Special Collections, UNCA. This page last updated March 20, 2010 Comments: hwykle@unca.edu

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