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Friday, January 10, 2014 / Published in Buildings, Local History, New Donations, Photograph Collection

The Lost Picture

“Remembering speechlessly we seek the great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Where? When? O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.” Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel Recently a man renovating a house on East Chestnut Street found a box of letters and pictures,
Ben WolfeCourt SquareEffie WolfeFred WolfeGrover WolfeH. B. BrownJ. A. TennentMabel WolfePack SquareW.O. Wolfe
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Thursday, July 25, 2013 / Published in Local History, Quirks & Kerfuffles

A WORK-HOUSE FOR WOMEN BUILT AT PACK SQUARE

The article will have to stand for itself, as we know nothing more about the work-house. You would have thought mopping up the jail house would have been justice enough.  The thought was to post this article along with a photograph of the City Hall.  But what City Hall? The city of Asheville was incorporated in
Asheville City HallAsheville North CarolinaCourt SquareInjusticeW.O. Wolfe BuildingWorkhouses

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