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| Dedication of new Courthouse, mid-1870's. NC Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville, NC | Page from the 1880 Census listing Robert and Harriet White and their children as Buncombe County residents. | ||||||||||
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| Portrait of Harriet White, from the collection of her granddaughter, Anita White Carter | |||||||||||
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1865-1880
5.4 Judge immediate and long term effects of Reconstruction on the daily lives of people as well as on the politics and economy of the former Confederate states. Sets of dwellings that had been homes for slaves were now the homes of freedmen and often continued to be inhabited by the same families. Such is the case for the dwellings on Valley Street behind the Thomas Patton home, The Henrietta, on Biltmore Avenue. Others came to begin life anew, as did Robert and Harriet White. Family history indicates that they had come from Rutherfordton in the early 1870’s and settled in Shiloh. Robert bought land on either side of a dirt path that led to Harriet’s laundry where she took in washing for White families who lived in the surrounding area. This path is now known as White Avenue. |
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