ASHEVILLE - Buncombe County staff removed a Confederate monument ... a Buncombe native and North Carolina governor during the Civil War and a U.S. senator. Vance was also a slave owner and opposed ...

During the Civil War, over 100 of the company's men represented Buncombe County. Vance, sixth from the left, led the group during the first year of conflict. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina ...

Memorial Day first began in the 1860s and paid tribute to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice during the Civil War, ...

At about the same time, the Greenville County Courthouse was built near the ... At the time of the Civil War, farms and fields bordered the road throughout much of its route.

A western North Carolina city’s decision to remove a downtown monument honoring a Civil War-era governor ... Court of Appeals told the city and Buncombe County in June to stop the demolition ...