Asheville, North Carolina

• The Ocean challenges rival band at Asheville club stand
  

  Matt Williams is a lot of things: musician, record company executive. But a triumphant superhero? You'll have to show up to find out.

• Annual Asheville United Way day of work benefits 72 nonprofits and schools
  

  Buncombe County is more beautiful today than it was Thursday. Thanks to more than 1,000 volunteers taking part in the United Way's annual Day of Caring on Thursday, 72 nonprofits and schools throughout the community are enjoying new landscaping, wheelchair-accessible decks and ramps, deep-cleaned offices and even supplemental educational materials ...

• Stockholm Syndrome takes over Asheville's Orange Peel
  

  ASHEVILLE When a group of hostages form an emotional bond with their kidnappers, it's called the Stockholm syndrome.

• Celebrate Asheville scene at Pies in Disguise, LAAFF
  

  I love Asheville. But I hate the phrase this city gave birth to: 'That's so Asheville.' What does that even mean? I think it's mostly used to brush aside the weird and wacky who are usually stationed on our street corners or sitting at the picnic tables at 12 Bones.

• Cee-Lo coming to Asheville for Moogfest
  

  Superstar entertainment Cee-Lo has been added to Asheville's Moogfest electronic music celebration, Oct.

• Asheville's Joyful Noise offers new classes for fall
  

  Enrollment for music classes at Joyful Noise is now open. To learn more, plan to attend the open house 6-8 p.m. Sept.

• Jared 'the Subway guy' wants to helps kids Lighten Up 4 Life in Asheville
  

  Jared 'the Subway guy' may have lost his last name sometime in the last 10 years working as the franchise spokesperson, but he says it's all worth it if just one child can avoid obesity.

• The books are back: Pack Memorial Library restocking its shelves
  

  The Pack Memorial Library is putting books back on its shelves in downtown Asheville.

• Bomb threat sends Mars Hill couple fleeing home
  

  An elderly couple fled their home here Wednesday afternoon after receiving a bomb threat.

• Asheville nonprofit collects supplies to prepare for Hurricane Earl
  

  The impending threat of Hurricane Earl to the eastern coast of North Carolina has caused Hearts With Hands to alert all volunteers to contact Hearts With Hands at 800-726-9185 in preparation for possible mobilization.

• Sweatin' out Labor Day: Where to get in a good run in the Asheville area this holiday weekend
  

  What better way to celebrate Labor Day than with a good, hard, labor-intensive run? Several races planned this weekend across Western North Carolina are taking that angle and hoping runners will, too, whether visitors coming to the mountains for the holiday or locals staying home and looking for something fun to do.

• This weekend on a shoestring
  

  Thursday, Sept. 2 Folk/Americana band Mandolin Orange , from Chapel Hill will be at Mo Daddy's . According to the group's bio, they pair "musical roles to stylize songs inspired by their country, jazz and bluegrass forebears, ornamenting lyrical songs with violin, mandolin, and acoustic and electric guitars.

• Police: No charges in downtown Asheville standoff
  

  A South Carolina man who surrendered to police following a downtown standoff is free to leave town once he gets out of the hospital, authorities said.

• Asheville man charged with choking mother
  

  City police on Tuesday arrested an Asheville man on charges of first degree burglary and assault by strangulation.

• Western North Carolina Red Cross ready to respond to Hurricane Earl
  

  The American Red Cross in Western North Carolina is helping its counterpart chapters throughout the state prepare for the possibility that Hurricane Earl will come ashore later this week.

• Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy to serve on EPA's Local Government Advisory Committee
  

  Mayor Terry Bellamy will serve a two-year term on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Local Government Advisory Committee.

• Asheville Salvation Army Mobilizing
  

  The Salvation Army in Asheville is getting ready to roll down to the coast to respond to any damage Hurricane Earl might do.

• E. Asheville to city: Build more sidewalks
  

  Eastside residents on Tuesday implored elected officials to build more sidewalks in their part of the city, largely for safety's sake.

• Asheville man gets 14 years on cocaine charges
  

  An Asheville man was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison on cocaine trafficking charges.

City Description

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and continues to grow. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that Asheville's population in 2009 was 76,636. Asheville is a part of the four-county Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population of which was estimated by the Census Bureau in 2008 to be 408,436. Before the arrival of Europeans, the land where Asheville now exists lay within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation. In 1540, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto came to the area, bringing the first European visitors in addition to European diseases which seriously depleted the native population. The area was used as an open hunting ground until the middle of the 19th century. The history of Asheville, as a town, begins in 1784. In that year, Colonel Samuel Davidson and his family settled in the Swannanoa Valley, redeeming a soldier's land grant from the state of North Carolina. Soon after building a log cabin at the bank of Christian Creek, Davidson was lured into the woods by a band of Cherokee hunters and killed. Davidson's wife, child and female slave fled on foot to

City Contained By:

• Buncombe County
• North Carolina

City Contains:

• Biltmore Estate
• Warren Wilson College
• Asheville High School
• Montford Area Historic District
• Asheville School
• McCormick Field
• Thomas Wolfe House
• Center for Jewish Studies at University of North Carolina
• Ravenscroft School
• Grove Park Inn
• Clarence Barker Memorial Hospital
• Biltmore Shoe Store
• Biltmore-Oteen Bank Building
• McGeahy Building
• Samuel Harrison Reed House
• Biltmore Estate Office
• Biltmore Village Commercial Buildings
• Biltmore Village Cottage District
• Biltmore Village Cottages
• Southern Railway Passenger Depot
• All Souls Episcopal Church and Parish House
• Richmond Hill House
• Dr. Carl V. Reynolds House
• Buncombe County Courthouse
• B & B Motor Company Building
• Inc. Biltmore Industries
• Building at 140 Biltmore Avenue
• Building at 134-136 1/2 Biltmore Avenue
• Building at 130-132 Biltmore Avenue
• Conabeer Chrysler Building
• E. D. Latta Nurses' Residence
• George A. Mears House
• Manor and Cottages
• Arcade Building
• Sawyer Motor Company Building
• Schoenberger Hall
• Young Men's Institute Building
• St. Matthias Episcopal Church
• Zealandia
• Church of St. Lawrence
• Richbourg Motors Building
• Overlook
• Smith-McDowell House
• Douglas Ellington House
• Downtown Asheville Historic District
• Downtown Asheville Historic District
• Eliada Home
• William Jennings Bryan House
• Battery Park Hotel
• St. Luke's Episcopal Church
• Kenilworth Inn
• Azkona Corporate HQ
• T.C. Roberson High School
• St. Mary's Episcopal Church
• Smith-McDowell House Museum

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 106.966508957 km squared

Sports Teams:

• Asheville Aces
• Asheville Smoke

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