Ashe County: A History

by Arthur Lloyd Fletcher

In the Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern North Carolina, along the Virginia and Tennessee borders, sits rural, mountainous Ashe County. When an act of the North Carolina General Assembly created Ashe in 1799, the county had previously been claimed by four other counties, the short-lived State of Franklin, and even France, based on treaty claims that the New River drained into the Mississippi.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786443294
• ISBN13: 9780786443291
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 463 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher