Asheville Art Museum | Asheville-Buncombe Library | UNC Asheville | YMI Cultural Center
Appalachian State University |Appalachian Cultural Museum |Southern Highland Craft Guild
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Asheville
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Asheville |
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Cultural Center
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Cultural Museum |Southern
Highland Craft Guild
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BIG IVY TOWNSHIP |
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| 1790 - | |
| First settled around 1790, Big Ivy Township eventually encompassed some 40,000 acres of timber land and farms. It is located in the Big Ivy creek watershed, under the Black Mountains, at the northwestern corner of Buncombe County. The land was part of the large tract once purchased by John Gray Blount, a land speculator who once owned large tracts of Buncombe County. He sold his part of his tract in the Big Ivy area to Zacharia Candler. Names of early settlers included the following: Dillingham ; Carter ; Roberts ; Anderson ; Hurst :Cole ; Wilson ; Carson ; Burlison ; Edwards ; Whittemore ; McKinney ; Greenwood ; Hurst ; Barnard ; and others. The first settlers in the area appears to be the family of Absalom Dillingham and his wife Rebecca. | |