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Asheville, NC - History
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Welcome to the Asheville Home page. The Asheville Home page provides as much information as possible on Asheville. Knowing Asheville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Asheville’s Home page, you will also find Asheville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Asheville has a population of 312618. 48% of Asheville’s inhabitants are Male, and 52 are female. 38.6% of Asheville is married and 49.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $290,368, and the average rent is $1,084. Household median income in Asheville is $53,621, and the individual median income is $29,465. Asheville’s Ethnic is the following: White(82.6%), Black(11.1%), Hispanic(6.7%), Multiple(3%), Asian(1.5%), Other(1.1%), Native(0.4%), Pacific(0.3%).
In 2003, Centennial Olympic Park bomber Eric Robert Rudolph was transported to Asheville from Murphy, North Carolina, for arraignment in federal court.In September 2004, remnants of Hurricanes Frances and Ivan caused major flooding in Asheville, particularly at Biltmore Village. In 2006, the Asheville Zombie Walk was organized for the first time, starting a tradition that lasted until 2016.In July 2020, the Asheville City Council voted to provide reparations to Black residents for the city's "historic role in slavery, discrimination and denial of basic liberties".
The resolution was unanimously passed, and Asheville committed to "make investments in areas where Black residents face disparities". Also in 2020, efforts were made to remove or change several monuments in the city that celebrated the Confederate States of America or slave owners. Attorney Sean Devereux proposed renaming Asheville in honor of Arthur Ashe, whose ancestors were owned by Samuel Ashe, for whom the city was named.
In June 2021, Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer was one of 11 U.S. mayors to form Mayors Organized for Reparations and Equity (MORE), a coalition of municipal leaders dedicated to starting pilot reparations programs in their cities.
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