Chicken Supper at 6pm - Music at 7pm. - Benjamin Allison built
what is now the oldest standing frame building in western North
Carolina. - First known private school, Davidson River Academy,
established by Davidson River - Presbyterian Church - Buncombe
Turnpike connected Tennessee and Kentucky to South Carolina (ran
through what would become Transylvania County creating an
economic boom) - Congress passed the Indian Removal Act (In 1832
the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Cherokee) - William Deaver
and Margaret Patton married. They bought the Allison House and
approximately 300 acres of land and enlarged the house to become
a 12-room dwelling. - Removal of Indians by government policy.
In 1838-39, the U.S. government forcibly removed the Cherokee
from their lands in North Carolina, leading them on the infamous
Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).
They left Pisgah Forest from Neill’s Hattery. A small number of
Cherokee people successfully resisted removal, however, by
claiming Nort