Excerpt from The Asheville City Directory and Gazetteer of Buncombe County for 1883-'84: Comprising a Complete List of the Citizens of Asheville, With Places of Business and Residence; Together With a List of Churches, Schools, Newspapers, Societies, and Associations of the City and County; State, County, and City Governments, &C The people of Asheville must feel an honest pride in the contemplation of the gratifying progress which this Directory shows the city to have made in business and population in the last few years. And it is still on a boom which shows no signs of weakening, but, rather, gains strength day by day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.