His son William Wallace McDowell continued this practice, setting aside about two acres of land for this purpose. In the 1800s, James McDowell established land for burial of slaves belonging to his and the Smith families in Asheville. In 1797, Morristown was incorporated and renamed "Asheville" after North Carolina Governor Samuel Ashe. The county seat, named "Morristown" in 1793, was established on a plateau where two old Indian trails crossed. In the 1800 US Census, some 107 settlers in the county were slaveholders, owning a total of 300 enslaved African Americans. Buncombe County was officially formed in 1792. Census of 1790 counted 1,000 residents of the area, excluding the Cherokee Native Americans as a separate nation. Months after the expedition, Major Davidson and other members of his extended family returned to the area and settled at the mouth of Bee Tree Creek. In response to the killing, Davidson's twin brother Major William Davidson and brother-in-law Colonel Daniel Smith formed an expedition to retrieve Samuel Davidson's body and avenge his murder. Davidson's wife, child, and female slave fled on foot overnight to Davidson's Fort (named after Davidson's father General John Davidson) 16 miles away. Soon after building a log cabin at the bank of Christian Creek, Davidson was lured into the woods and killed by a band of Cherokee hunters resisting white encroachment. In that year, Colonel Samuel Davidson and his family settled in the Swannanoa Valley, redeeming a soldier's land grant from the state of North Carolina made in lieu of pay. Įuropean Americans began to settle in the area of Asheville in 1784, after the United States gained independence in the American Revolutionary War. They called it Untokiasdiyi or Tokiyasdi (ᏙᎩᏯᏍᏗ in Cherokee), meaning "Where they race", until the middle of the 19th century. The Cherokee had traditionally used the area by the confluence for open hunting and meeting grounds. His expedition comprised the first European visitors, who carried endemic Eurasian infectious diseases that killed many in the native population. A town at the site of the river confluence was recorded as Guaxule by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto during his 1540 expedition through this area. See also: Timeline of Asheville, North Carolina Origins īefore the arrival of the Europeans, the land where Asheville now exists lay within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation, which had homelands in modern western North and South Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, and northeastern Georgia.
0 kommentar(er)
