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There's nothing quite like one of those "WOO-WOO" moments in the archives! We receieved a new donation of photos from the Leicester Branch this week, and this is the gem 💎 in the batch. Staff member Katherine has been working to ID the young girl on the left, and it looks like she finally found her! Stay tuned for details as we finalize research for this crazy cool collection that documents the #Leicester and #BlackMountain communities. Extra fun fact: The photographer, W.H Gragg, kept his studio inside where @dripolatorcoffeehouse is today! 😯 . . . #AVL #avlhistory #asheville #wnc #ArchivesofInstagram #Librariesofinstagram #828isgreat #blackhistorymonth #historyiscool

#NCRoom staff Katherine and Zoe, and board members Joe and Roy, had a great meeting last night with the one and only Ms. Oralene Simmons, president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Association & her colleague Michael Dempsey! We're getting excited for our events for this year, which include a panel discussion about the teachers at Stephens-Lee High School, one of the only schools for African Americans in #WNC prior to integration. . . . #asheville #AshevilleHistory #AVL #Avlhistory #avltoday #BlackAsheville #blackhistorymonth #MLKAVL @buncombecounty @pack.memorial.library

#OTD in 2002 our very own District 3 County Commissioner Robert Pressley won the Florida Dodge Dealers 250 Craftsman Truck Series race! Pressley gets it honest, his dad was a local legend! Here he is in the number 54 car at #Asheville Motor Speedway (now Carrier Park). The last races at AMS were in run in 1999. . . . . #AVL #AVLHistory #AshevilleHistory #SportsHistory #FlashbackFriday #LibrariesofInstagram #ArchivesofInstagram #NCHistory #NASCAR @BuncombeCounty @NASCAR @Pack.memorial.library

Happy #ValentinesDay from the NC Room and the 1966 #NASCAR Grand National Cup Champion David Pearson! Check out this passionate congradulatory kiss! . . . #asheville #AshevilleHistory #AVL #avltoday @buncombecounty @nascar @pack.memorial.library

SURPRISE! It's a plat map of a section of the Beaverdam community ca. 1945. . . . #Asheville #AVL #avlhistory #AshevilleHistory #ArchivesofInstagram #Librariesofinstagram #donttrythisathome @buncombecounty @drewreisinger @pack.memorial.library

In his work, "A History of Buncombe County, North Carolina" F.A Sondley takes some time describing the streams and creeks that are tributaries of the French Broad River. One such creek is Beaverdam, the featured community for this week's edition of #52Weeks52Communities : "'Beaverdam Creek,' [and] the beaver dams which led to its name being, it is said, [are] at different places along the creek." BUT WAIT! There's more! Besides the North Asheville Beaverdam, did you know there is a Beaverdam community in the southwest part if the county, too? Just outside of Candler lies the another Beaverdam community. The photos from our collection in this post feature a little bit of both North and South. The first two photos come from the Barnhill collection and show the landscape of the area near Beaver Lake in North Asheville ca. 1920. The final photo depicts a bus taking workers from Downtown Asheville back to their rural communities in the 1940's. During WWII gas rationing led to a rise in carpooling and rural public transportation. We'll show off some more, similar photos when we get to Leicester! . . . . #Asheville #AshevilleHistory #AVL #AVLHistory #AVLToday #LibrariesofInstagram #ArchivesofInstagram #Communities #CommunityHistory #RuralHistory @Buncombecounty @pack.memorial.library

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