This photo of the Smith-McDowell House was taken at 283 Victoria Road Asheville, North Carolina on the A-B Tech Community College Campus. This house, built in or around 1840 by one of North Carolina's most influential citizen James McConnell Smith, is Asheville's oldest surviving dwelling. James McConnell Smith's daughter, Sarah, purchased this house upon her father's death. Her husband William McDowell was a Captain in a militia group called the Buncombe Riflemen which fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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