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    The Asheville Female College was the first institution of higher education in the western portion of North Carolina, founded as the Asheville Female Seminary...
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  • Asheville (UNC Asheville, UNCA, or simply Asheville) is a public liberal arts university in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. UNC Asheville is...
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    Asheville (/ˈæʃvɪl/ ASH-vil) is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. Located at the confluence of the French...
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  • Smith College, Geneva (coordinate college of the Hobart and William Smith Colleges) Asheville Female College, Asheville Barber–Scotia College, Concord...
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  • Accessed September 9, 2024. "Her education included attendance at the Asheville Female College, the Pennington Seminary (a preparatory school in New Jersey),...
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  • notable persons who were born in and/or have lived in the American city of Asheville, North Carolina. Douglas Ellington, architect Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908)...
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  • association with the Center for Craft in Asheville, N.C. The Warren Wilson athletic teams are called the Owls. The college is a provisional member of the NCAA...
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    four-year college in 1860; it became coeducational in 1976. 1841: Asheville Female Seminary: Later renamed Asheville Female College. 1842: Fulton Female Academy...
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    Buncombe County, North Carolina (category Asheville metropolitan area)
    populous county in North Carolina. Its county seat is Asheville. Buncombe County is part of the Asheville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The area of modern...
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  • college, Greensboro Female College. The school occupied a 25-acre (100,000 m2) campus near the heart of the city within what would become the College...
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  • also known as Allen High School, was a defunct private high school in Asheville, North Carolina for African-American students. Originally known as the...
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    Asheville Female College Laura Luttrell, "One Hundred Years of a Female Academy: The Knoxville Female Academy, 1811-1846; The East Tennessee Female Institute...
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    Loula Roberts Platt (category Burials at Riverside Cemetery (Asheville, North Carolina))
    Ray Roberts. She was educated at Asheville Female College in North Carolina and The Pennington Seminary and Female Collegiate Institute in New Jersey...
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  • programs. Chartered by the First Baptist Church, the college first opened as the Baptist Female University in 1891 in a facility in downtown Raleigh....
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    Swannanoa, North Carolina (category Asheville metropolitan area)
    the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Swannanoa is located several miles west of Black Mountain just prior to Oteen and eastern Asheville. With...
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    Black Mountain, North Carolina (category Asheville metropolitan area)
    population was 8,426 at the 2020 United States census. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is named for the old train stop...
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    (USA). Founded in 1857 as the Charlotte Female Institute, this private school was originally located at College and 9th streets in what is now Uptown Charlotte...
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    Montreat, North Carolina (category Asheville metropolitan area)
    It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is best known for Montreat Conference Center and Montreat College, and for having been...
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  • Summer Camp (2024 film) (category 2020s female buddy films)
    producer: Crew, stars Keaton, Bates, Woodard loving time in Asheville, Hendersonville". Asheville Citizen-Times. Archived from the original on October 12...
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    William Charles Anthony Frerichs (category Greensboro College faculty)
    Born in Ghent, he emigrated to the United States, taught at Greensboro Female College, and served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil...
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    approximately three miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway, 50 miles northeast of Asheville and 40 miles southwest of Boone. As of the 2020 United States census,...
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    Mars Hill, North Carolina (category Asheville metropolitan area)
    located 15 miles (24 km) due north of Asheville. Interstate 26 passes one mile east of the town. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Long...
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    ultimately added the college. It is the oldest female educational establishment that is still a women's college and the oldest women's college in the United...
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    Weaverville, North Carolina (category Asheville metropolitan area)
    States. The population was 4,567 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Asheville metropolitan area. Chartered in 1875 and named for Michael Montraville...
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    the South Florida Bulls Rocky the Bulldog – costumed mascot of the UNC Asheville Bulldogs and the Western Illinois Leathernecks Rocky the Golden Eagle...
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    Madison Cawthorn (category Politicians from Asheville, North Carolina)
    who won the general election. Cawthorn was born on August 1, 1995, in Asheville, North Carolina, to Priscilla and Roger Cawthorn. He was home-schooled...
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  • Andrea Long Chu (category People from Asheville, North Carolina)
    few years later, Chu moved with her family to Asheville, North Carolina. Although she described Asheville as a "very hippy dippy kind of place," Chu said...
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    is 12 miles (19 km) to the east. The town is 65 miles (105 km) east of Asheville, 66 miles (106 km) northwest of Charlotte, and 184 miles (296 km) west...
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    Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina (category Asheville metropolitan area)
    States. The population was 3,114 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area. Charles Baring and Susan Heyward Baring...
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    pediatrician, first physician to identify cystic fibrosis as a disease (Asheville) Joseph Penn Breedlove (1874-1955), Duke University librarian 1898-1946...
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