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Buncombe County Courthouse
Asheville, North Carolina |
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1927 Architect - Milburn, Heister & Company Photos: Robert Deering 7/15/2003 |
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 1903 Courthouse |
 1927 Courthouse |
COUNTY NAMED FOR: Edward Buncombe, a colonel in the American Revolutionary War, who was captured at the Battle of Germantown.
COUNTY SEAT NAMED FOR: Governor Samuel Ashe.
COURTHOUSES: Buncombe County built its first courthouse in 1792 in what was then known as Morristown, renamed Asheville in 1797. Several log and brick courthouses were constructed during the 19th and early 20th century. By 1923 county court officials proclaimed that a new courthouse was needed due to the rapid growth of the county and Asheville
STANDING: 1927 high-rise building.
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