Bledsoe Building

In 2018, artist Gus Cutty painted a mural of Dolly Parton on Haywood Road outside Beauty Parade Hair Salon in West Asheville, North Carolina, United States. The portrait replaced another of a girl licking ice cream, and took four days to complete. Cutty modeled the painting after a vintage portrait of the country singer.In 2021, he added a portrait of RuPaul. Prior to the unveiling, salon owner Terra Marshall asked people to guess the identity of the second portrait.

West Asheville End of Car Line Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 24 contributing buildings in a primarily commercial section of West Asheville. It includes a nearly continuous row of one and two-story brick and concrete block commercial buildings that date from 1916 through the mid-1930s. Their development was influenced by streetcar service along the Haywood Road corridor that operated from 1910 to 1934. Notable buildings include the separately listed Bledsoe Building, along with the Isis Theater (1937), Franklin Building (1923), Pure Oil Station (1947), Wells Building (1917), Palace Theater (1928), Great A&P Tea Company (1926), and West Asheville Post Office (1929).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

Neng Jr.'s is a Filipino restaurant in Asheville, North Carolina. Established in June 2022, the business was included in The New York Times's 2023 list of the 50 best restaurants in the United States.

Thomas Jarrett House is a historic home located at 46 Louisiana Avenue in Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1894, and is a two-story, frame I-house in the Queen Anne style. It is sheathed in weatherboard and features a two-tiered, lavishly decorated portico.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

Firestorm Books & Coffee is a worker-owned and self-managed "anti-capitalist business" in Asheville, North Carolina. Named after the firestorm, this infoshop operates with an eye on creating a sustainable, radical community event space. Firestorm features regular events, such as film screenings, political and economic teach-ins, local and traveling musicians and community workshops. Firestorm opened in May 2008, spearheaded by co-creators Libertie Valance and is run by an LGBTQ collective.

West Asheville–Aycock School Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings in a commercial and institutional section of West Asheville. It includes one and two-story brick civic and commercial buildings, dating from about 1915 to 1936. Their development was influenced by streetcar service along the Haywood Road corridor that operated from 1910 to 1934. Notable buildings contributing to the historic district include the McGeachy Filling Station (c. 1936), Buckner Building (c. 1924), West Asheville Fire Station (1922), Charles B. Aycock School (1953), West Asheville Bank and Trust Company (c. 1927), DeLuxe Barber Shop (1927), and Universal Motors (1928).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

Seven Oaks, also known as the Atkinson House, is a historic house at 82 Westwood Place in Asheville, North Carolina. It is a single-story brick structure, with a triple-gable roof that has deep eaves. A hip-roof porch extends across the front, supported by Tuscan columns, with modillioned and bracketed eaves. Built in the 1870s, it is a high-quality example of Italianate architecture, and is one of only seven brick 19th-century houses in Asheville.The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

WWNC (570 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Asheville, North Carolina. It broadcasts a news/talk radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and transmitter are on Summerlin Road in Ashville. WWNC is powered at 5,000 watts. By day, it is non-directional. But at night, to protect other stations on 570 AM from interference, it uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array.

Emma is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 2,174.The community is in central Buncombe County, bordered to the east and south by the city of Asheville, the county seat.

Riverside Industrial Historic District, also known as Asheville Wholesale District, is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 27 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure (Southern Railway Tracks and Right of Way) in a predominantly industrial section of Asheville. Notable buildings include the Orpheus and Bertha Keener House (c. 1890), American Feed Milling Company (c. 1915), Italianate style Carolina Coal & Ice Company (c. 1905), Asheville Cotton Mill Cloth Warehouse (c. 1900), Standard Oil Company complex (c. 1916), and Farmers Federation Building (c. 1920).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

Demens-Rumbough-Crawley House, also known as Hanger Hall, is a historic home built by Peter Demens, located at 31 Park Ave. N., Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built about 1890, and is a two-story, brick Victorian style dwelling on a stone foundation. It features a low hipped roof, rigid and geometrical exterior ornamentation, and projecting three-stage tower and bay. Also on the property is a contributing small frame garage.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

The Swannanoa River flows through the Swannanoa Valley of the region of Western North Carolina, and is a major tributary to the French Broad River. Its headwaters arise in Black Mountain, North Carolina; however, it also has a major tributary near its headwaters: Flat Creek, which begins on the slopes of Mount Mitchell. The Swannanoa River ends at its confluence with the French Broad, now within the grounds of the 8,000-acre Biltmore Estate in Asheville. The estate encompasses numerous ancient Native American sites, including an earthwork platform mound, now known as Biltmore Mound, that is located south of the Swannanoa River. Based on evidence from excavations conducted there in the early 21st century, the mound was started by indigenous people between 400 and 550CE, with the second to last stage of the mound built about 580-600CE. It was built over a Connestee Phase habitation (built during the Pisgah phase) in the Middle Woodland period.The historic Cherokee people occupied this area, which is part of their traditional homeland in this region. The mound has been identified as an area of feasting. The Cherokee called this site near the confluence Untokiasdiyi, meaning "where they race." They used it as a meeting place and area of competitive ritual games.Under pressure from European-American settlers, the Cherokee ceded their land here in 1819. This site near the Swannanoa River was later abandoned and became overgrown. At one time there was plowing in the area, reducing the height of the mound, but it is distinguished by a much wider, oval-shaped base. The mound was rediscovered in 1984. It was first excavated in a more than two-year project by a team from Appalachian State University, beginning in 2000.The river is 22 miles or 35 kilometers long, and it flows entirely within the geographical boundaries of Buncombe County. It is a valuable resource to the county, providing drinking water to the Asheville metropolitan area, and numerous recreational opportunities. In September 2004, extremely heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Ivan caused the Swannanoa to flood, causing major damage to the Biltmore Village section of Asheville, and to the other communities that it flows through.