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		An area adjacent to the Swannanoa River will be preserved as a park and the applicant proposes to convey this area to the City of Asheville for use as a public park.
		Developer widening of Swannanoa River Road to a three lane cross-section from the I-240 overpass to Fairview Road.
		The access easement on the south side of the Swannanoa River running from the developer's property to Fairview Road shall be transferred to the City of Asheville for the purpose(s) of extending the Swannanoa River greenway and/or construction of the Riverside Parkway.
	www.main.nc.us /cnnews/walmart.shtml (2916 words)

	Asheville Planning & Development Department -Design Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The establishment of the River District is in recognition that the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers, within the City of Asheville, are unique natural resources that are both environmentally sensitive and vital to the economic development of the City.
		Although the buildings are usually utilitarian in structure, the uses along the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers are able to contribute to the overall visual quality of the City and visual enhancement of the area with minimal effort.
		Yards which run along the French Broad River or the Swannanoa River should be left as pristine as possible in the proximity of the River, screening the industrial uses from the view of those using the river.
	www.ci.asheville.nc.us /planning/designreview.htm (5636 words)

	Town of BLack Mountain Greenway Committee
		The Owen Spur connects the Swannanoa River Trail to Owen High School, Owen Middle School the Owen District Pool, the Swannanoa 4-H Camp, and the future Owen Area Youth Center.
		The Swannanoa River Trail connects the 'In The Oaks' Trail with the proposed Owen Spur.
		It crosses the Swannanoa River at the edge of the park via a bridge and follows the edge of the ‘In The Oaks’ property (the south campus of Montreat College) through a shady pine forest, near the Swannanoa River and not far from I-40.
	www.townofblackmountain.org /gwmap.htm (1172 words)

	Western North Carolina: A History, Chapter VIII
		Davidson was a brother of the Samuel Davidson who was killed by the Indians in 1781-2 at the head of the Swannanoa river, and was the first representative of Buncombe county in the State Senate, taking a prominent part in the preparations made by the North Carolinians for the Battle of Kings -Mountain.
		He was born March 12, 1803, and died June 1, 1874, was a son of William Cathey, one of the first settlers on Pigeon river; was a delegate to the State convention of 1835, and in the senate and declined further political honors.
		John Clayton, of Mills river section, was in the legislature in 1827 and 1828, and in the senate in 1833.
	www.newrivernotes.com /nc/wnc8.htm (20878 words)

	Lake Swannanoa – History
		Swannanoa River; Panoramic Map of Swannanoa River Valley; Black Mountain/Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce
		"'Swannanoa' is the anglicized form of the Cherokee word 'Suwali-nunna,' which means 'trail of the Suwali tribe.' The anthropologist James Mooney noted in Myths of the Cherokees (1900) that this trail ran from Cherokee lands 'to the Suwali tribe living east of the mountains.' They were also known as the Sara Indians."
		Swannanoa Peace Sound Chamber [maybe we could use one of those] a project of The Foundation for Earth's Ancestral Voices
	www.lakeswannanoa.org /06_history.htm (846 words)

	Swannanoa River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Swannanoa River flows through the Swannanoa Valley of western North Carolina, and is a major tributary to the French Broad River.
		The river is 22 miles or 35 kilometers long, and it flows entirely within the geographical boundaries of Buncombe County.
		In September 2004, massive 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swannanoa_River (178 words)

	Everything's not all roses at Azalea / Mountain Xpress / mountainx.com
		The Swannanoa River has borne the brunt of human activity for many generations – particularly in the stretch that runs along Azalea Road in east Asheville.
		By the middle of the 20th century, however, the lake – the pride of a little community called Azalea – was gone, silted up by a sand-and-gravel mining operation upstream.
		But the prospect of a new dump on top of an old one, right next to the river, is upsetting Moyer's neighbors, who claim that Moyer allowed everything from old tires to dead cows to be buried in his fill.
	www.mountainx.com /news/2001/0207azalea.php (1662 words)

	Smith-McDowell House Museum - Early Settlement of Buncombe County
		Roads crossed rivers where fording was convenient, but this limited crossings and travel to periods of low water.
		The river, meanwhile, boils, and bounds, and rages at your feet…” Despite the risks of travel, Asheville quickly gained a reputation as a health resort, attracting summer residents from Charleston and Augusta who enjoyed the cool mountain air.
		Because his family had originally settled on the fertile bottomlands along the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers, James Smith was well positioned to capitalize on the drover-based economy.
	www.wnchistory.org /museum/droversroad.htm (3922 words)

	Spirits on the River / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		For one, we were seated on a plant-filled wooden porch overlooking a rushing Swannanoa River that was swollen with the recent rains.
		Spirits on the River offers a fairly small selection of approachable game, including quail, bison and pheasant (sadly, the pheasant was unavailable when we dined).
		With the river gurgling in the background, the birds singing and a group of bug-repellent-covered diners harmoniously sharing the four menus (by the time this goes to press, I'm sure they will have printed more, by the way), Spirits on the River is indeed uniquely Asheville.
	www.mountainx.com /dining/2006/1011spirits.php (1050 words)

	Karen Cragnolin
		She describes attempts not only to protect the rivers, but also to make them attractive to tourists, and to gather public and corporate support for these efforts.
		She has worked to create a program that will protect Asheville's rivers and watersheds from pollution, and to gather public interest and support for the river as a tourist attraction that should be kept beautiful.
		It was started in West Asheville at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers, and included a picnic shelter, observation deck, and a fishing pier, which were constructed along with a parking lot and asphalt trail for walking and jogging.
	toto.lib.unca.edu /findingaids/oralhistory/VOA/A_C/Cragnolin_K.html (1149 words)

	History of Western North Carolina - Chapter X Roads, Stage Coaches, and Taverns
		THE OLD SWANNANOA GAP ROAD.[15] "The old road through this gap did not cross, as it has often been stated to have done, at the place where the Long or Swannanoa Tunnel is. In later years the stage road did cross at that place.
		Askew, who was born in 1832, was a boy, in order to escape the delays of waiting for the French Broad river to subside in times of freshets, and in winter, of avoiding the ice which drifted into the road from the river and sometimes made it impassable.
		The turnpike down the French Broad river having been turned over to the Western North Carolina railroad company for stock in that enterprise in 1869, all that was left to be surrendered was the road the Henderson county line to Asheville, passing through Limestone township.
	www.newrivernotes.com /nc/wnc10.htm (5408 words)

	Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Etnier also remembered some interesting accidental introductions into the French Broad and Nolichucky rivers in western NC that we forgot to mention in earlier reports (he is getting on in years!).
		All of their host fish research makes it evident that the world class diversity of freshwater mussels in the Tennessee River system is sustained by the high diversity of the indigenous fish fauna, or what non-biologists and fishers would consider inconsequential, nongame species.
		The Tellico River proposal is currently being reviewed in the Washington, D. office, the French Broad proposal is in review in Atlanta, and the Shoal Creek proposal is being reviewed in the Asheville office of Fish and Wildlife Service.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/Organizations/SFC/regionalreports/R3NC2000.htm (2245 words)

	menofthosedays
		After that war, Major William Davidson removed with some relatives and friends to the mouth of Bee Tree Creek of Swannanoa River, then in Burke County, but now in Buncombe County, where in 1784-1785 they formed the famous "Swannanoa Settlement" and where he resided for the remainder of his life and died and is buried.
		The late residence of Colonel John Patton stood on the southern side of the Swannanoa, at the ford about half a mile above its mouth, until within the last thirty years, when, after bearing for some time the name of the Haunted House, it was removed as being no longer tenantable.
		In the progress of the Revolutionary War, David Vance served in the American army in the north and rose to the rank of ensign and was at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown at Valley Forge.
	www.obcgs.com /menof.htm (2830 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		COUNTY HISTORY BUNCOMBE COUNTY.(l) In 1781 or 1782 settlers from the blockhouse at Old Fort, McDowell county as it is now, crossed the mountains to the head of the Swannanoa river, and became trespassers on the Cherokee territory, the Blue Ridge at that time being the boundary line.
		Davidson was a brother of the Samuel Davidson who was killed by the Indians in 1781-2 at the head of the Swannanoa river, and was the first representative of Buncombe county in the State Senate, taking a prominent part in the preparations made by the North Carolinians for the Battle of Kings Mountain.
		Was born on Pigeon river August 26, 1817, a son of Thomas Lenoir of Wilkes.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/hownc004.html (11674 words)

	Asheville.com news: Flood of 1916.
		But this idyllic setting was dramatically and savagely disrupted one summer day in 1916 when the Swannanoa River rose up and swallowed Biltmore Village in one of the worst incidents of flooding that Western North Carolina has ever seen.
		Our home stood until the water subsided, then collapsed into the Swannanoa.” Photo on right is a current photo of the Swannanoa River near the entrance to the Biltmore House.
		The tremendous rains on the 15th and 16th in the watershed of the river [from an Atlantic coast hurricane that came ashore near Charleston, SC] caused it to rise with great rapidity.
	www.asheville.com /news/flood1916.html (2363 words)

	asheville.com news: Riverlink.
		RiverLink, a regional nonprofit organization that is spearheading the environmental and economic revitalization of the French Broad River and its tributaries, is sponsoring bus tours of the Historic Riverside District.
		Originally known as Pritchard Park and often referred to as the West End-Clingman Avenue area, Chicken Hill is currently the focus of revitalization efforts by neighborhood residents, non-profits and the City of Asheville.
		The Swannanoa River has been the focus of various development efforts and is a critical piece of our common river heritage.
	www.asheville.com /news/riverlink.html (718 words)

	PATTON
		George Patton, born in Swannanoa on Sept. 20, 1786, married Nancy Patton, daughter of Aaron and Magdalene (Cunningham) Patton.
		Elizabeth Patton, born in Swannanoa on May 22, 1788, married, first, her first cousin James Patton, son of Elijah, her father's brother, and they moved to Tennessee.
		Elizabeth Patton was born in Swannanoa, Buncombe County, NC, on May 22, 1788, one of the younger children of Robert and Rebecca (..) Patton.
	www.obcgs.com /patton.htm (5294 words)

	Urban Riverfront Development Update - UrbanPlanet.org
		It calls for 17 miles of parkway along the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers in the city and construction or rehabilitation of 656,000 square feet of buildings along the French Broad, much for a mixture of housing and retail or office space.
		The plan suggests existing roads along the portion of the two rivers within the city limits be converted into a landscaped parkway with parallel bicycling or walking paths.
		It would also involve converting part of Swannanoa River Road and Thompson Street between Biltmore Village and a point a little west of the Circuit City store near Wood Avenue into one-way paired streets, plus construction of more crossings of the Swannanoa.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=5301 (867 words)

	AGR Online/ Local News
		The developers plan to build a 4-lane bridge across the Swannanoa River from the 2-lane Swannanoa River Road, and to construct a new road to the shopping center through Oakley from Fairview Road.
		According to the City’s evaluation of the plan, “primary access to the site will be via Swannanoa River Road.” Riverbend estimates about 10,700 trips per day on this narrow road, which is 63% of the total number of cars they foresee entering the development each day.
		People who live in the Swannanoa River Road area are fearful that the massive influx of traffic will destroy their neighborhood.
	www.agrnews.org /issues/178/localnews.html (3096 words)

	Kindness Campaign in Asheville, NC \| Carolina Institute for Conflict Resolution & Creative Leadership
		Fanny Marcus from the flood water of the Swannanoa River during Hurricane Francis.
		The employees and friends working for Mountain Mortgage Company were on the flooded river in a boat trying to determine the damage to their office along the river.
		While standing near the Swannanoa River during the second flood from Hurricane Ivan, Nena encountered a man who had stepped on a yellow jacket’s nest and had passed out and had fallen down an embankment near the edge of the flooded river.
	weinholds.org /kindweek05_award.asp (588 words)

	Hike WNC Articles: Swannanoa Valley Museum Guided Hikes Program
		On these trips, you'll sample some of the most interesting, scenic, and historic sites in and around the Swannanoa River Valley, led by area historians and naturalists, who in addition to guiding safe and interesting hikes also offer interpretation and education about the history and environment of the sites.
		Swannanoa Creek, earlier identified and mapped as Davidson¹s Mill Creek, was the site of a Civil War skirmish known as the Battle of Swannanoa Gap.
		Explore the headwaters of the Catawba River via what is believed to have been the first route into the valley, through Fortune Fields.
	www.hikewnc.info /articles/swanhikes.html (1064 words)

	Worst case of NIMBYism? - UrbanPlanet.org
		The property in question, a 9.5-acre strip off of Swannanoa River Road, is owned by Thomas Wolfe, an Asheville real-estate salesman.
		Asheville City Council is scheduled tonight to hear a somewhat controversial rezoning request for a wooded piece of property that lies between the Kenilworth Forest neighborhood and Swannanoa River Road in east Asheville.
		Asheville-based BATT Associates is asking council to rezone about 9 acres from multifamily residential to the city's river zoning district, which allows residential, commercial or industrial uses.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=3385 (1709 words)

	Asheville Parks & Recreation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Hominy Creek segment is funded by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
		Plans for the first leg of the Swannanoa River Greenway is underway to start at Azalea Park to follow the Swannanoa River through Recreation Park, then onto Ann Joyce Patton Park on Swannanoa River Rd. This portion of the greenway is funded by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
		This half-mile trail on the south bank of the Swannanoa River and adjacent to the new River Bend MarketPlace will be complete in 2005.
	www.ci.asheville.nc.us /parks/greenways.htm (334 words)

	Scopes of Work on Grant Requests Before the CWMTF Board of Trustees, September 2002
		The New River Community Partners request $57,000 of a $105,000 effort to restore eroding banks of the New River mainstem.
		RiverLink requests $1,739,892 of a $2,496,772 effort to restore 1.9 miles of the Swannanoa River in the French Broad River Basin.
		The National Committee for the New River requests $356,000 of a $358,700 effort to establish buffer tree plantings along 195,360 linear feet (37 mi.) of the New River over a 36 month period, at a cost of $1.82 per linear foot.
	www.cwmtf.net /septemberscopes.htm (6428 words)

	Summer 2003 Events
		Swannanoa, NC – Some 400 volunteers will participate this August in Swannanoa Pride Day, a community-wide effort to clean up, improve, and revitalize Swannanoa.
		Groben said that she and the other organizers are excited that the Swannanoa community is pulling together to make this project a reality.
		Organizers say that monetary contributions of any size are greatly needed, as well as donations of supplies and materials such as lumber, gravel, and playground mulch.
	www.ilovethelibrary.org /Revitalize2005.htm (291 words)

	FireNews.net
		SWANNANOA - Companies used creativity to meet huge water supply demands on Wednesday at the large Beacon Plant fire.
		A crane was expected to begin demolition of masonry walls that were in danger of additional collapses.
		SWANNANOA - A tremendous blaze struck this small town just east of Asheville early Wednesday morning.
	www.carolinasfirepage.com /firenews/contents/news/09032003a.htm (492 words)

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