Newton Academy Cemetery
M2003.3.
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Title | Newton Academy Cemetery |
Creator | Community Foundation of Western North Carolina |
Alt. Creator | Diane Crisp |
Subject Keyword | Buncombe County, NC ; cemeteries ; graveyards ; Asheville, NC ; Community Foundation of Western North Carolina ; Diane Crisp ; Pen and Plate Club, Asheville, NC ; Newton Academy ; genealogy ; Dr. Foster Sondley ; C. Michael Baker ; "Stones Unturned" ; Thomas Forster ; William Forester, Sr. ; William Forster, II ; William Forster, III ; John S. Stevens ; Hugh Stevens ; Sue Gudger Cable ; Frank Forster Davicson ; William B. Johnson ; Mary Wilson Walker ; Richard B. Stevens ; Elizabeth Forester ; George Newton ; Union Hill Academy ; Ora Blackmun ; J.M. Campbell ; Gallatin Roberts ; R.J. Sherrill ; W.L. Brooker ; R.L. Fitzpatrick ; Curtis Bynum ; W. Vance Brown ; C.C. Worley ; R. H. McDuffie ; W.M. Smathers ; John H. Cathey ; J. Edgar Stevens ; Polly Patton ; Col. John Patton ; James McConnell Smith ; George Swain ; William Lowry Swain ; George N> Popoff ; Charles Neal Goodlake ; W.D. Roberts ; Stephen Rice ; Ella Reed Matthews ; |
Subject LCSH |
Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Newton, George Buncombe County (N.C.) -- Genealogy Buncombe County (N.C.) -- Cemeteries Buncombe County (N.C.) -- History Asheville (N.C.) -- History Cemeteries -- North Carolina Epitaphs -- North Carolina Registers of births, etc. -- North Carolina North Carolina -- Genealogy |
Description | A small collection of photocopies of documents related to the Newton Academy Cemetery and a "Fact Sheet" describing the site, the relationship of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, and the goals and objectives of the newt overseer. Photographs of the cemetery. A comprehensive site report of Information from the field documentation and mapping of the site by C. Michael Baker, Ph.D. of "Stones Unturned," June 14, 1991, is included. He provides a numerical list of the grave plots with names, where known. |
Publisher | D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
Contributor | C. Michael Baker, Ph.D. |
Date digital | 2004-06-08 |
Date original | |
Type | text ; |
Format | 1 small manuscript box |
Identifier | |
Source | M2004. |
Language | English |
Relation | E.M. Ball Photographic Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 ; Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection, Special Collections, UNC Asheville ; Riverside Cemetery, Asheville, NC , Parks and Recreation Department ; Old Buncombe County Genealogical, Asheville, NC ; Find a Grave http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=2198759 ; |
Coverage temporal | mid-nineteenth century ; |
Coverage spatial | Asheville, NC ; |
Rights | Any display,
publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library, Special
Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Some materials in collections are electronic rights only. Please ask for assistance from Special Collections staff. |
Donor | Donor number ; Community Foundation of Western North Carolina. |
Acquisition | 2002-12-17 |
Citation | Newton Academy Cemetery, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
Processed by | Special Collections staff, 2004 ; |
Last update | 2004-08-06 |
Context: |
The Newton Academy Cemetery is a two-acre wooded knoll adjacent to
Biltmore Avenue in the city of Asheville, N.C.. The restoration,
preservation and maintenance of the cemetery has been given to the
Community Foundation of Western North Carolina "as part of a unique
gift agreement," related to the donation of the Newton Academy
property to the Foundation by the Forster-Stevens Trustees.
The cemetery was established circa 1818 at the corner of what is today Biltmore Avenue and Unadilla Avenue. It is the location of many of Asheville's early families. Extensive research and mapping of the grounds was completed in the early 1990's by Dr. C. Michael Baker. His work revealed some 210 marked gravesites and approximately 85 unmarked graves. There are also memorial markers for soldiers (both Confederate and Union) whose bodies were not interred. Early graves include that of James McConnell Smith (reportedly the first white child born west of the Blue Ridge Mountains) ; George Swain, the father of North Carolina Governor David L. Swain and stones marking the grave sites of many familiar Asheville names such as Alexander, Stevens, and Patton. The following statement has been prepared by the Community Foundation of Western North CArolina regarding the cemetery: "Newton Academy Cemetery is primarily a mid-19th century graveyard with no original landscape plan in existence. The Cemetery Committee wishes to avoid future changes in the graveyard that would romanticize the landscape to suit modern views of what a 19th century graveyard should look like. The following are the goals and preservation guidelines established by the Cemetery Committee of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, along with a list of plantings that are historically appropriate for a 19th century graveyard.
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Bibliographical Information | Information obtained from
obituaries found in the Newts record and the
Asheville
Citizen-Times, February 1999.
Literary advancement [microform]: seven thousand dollars may be gained for the small sum of four in the Newton Academy lottery. Columbia, S.C. : Printed by D. & J.J. Faust, 1810. Sondley, Foster Alexander. History of Buncombe County, Vols. I and II, Sondley, Foster Alexander. Asheville and Buncombe County. Blackmun, Ora. A Spire in the Mountains. Mattherw, Ella Reed. The Genealogy of Henry and Nancy Forster Stevens. Vance, Zebulon. "Life and Character of Hon. David L. Swain," 1878.
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Box | Folder | Item I.D. | Description | Thumbnail |
newt001a newt001b |
Fact Sheet prepared by the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Trustee for the Newton Academy Cemetery. | |||
newt002a newt002b |
The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina." Newton Academy Cemetery: Statement of Goals and Preservation Guidelines." | |||
1 | newt003 | Stevens, John S.. "The Pen and Plate Club." Newton Academy, June 21, 1990.[13 pages] | ||
newt004a newt004b newt004c |
Unidentified history of the donation to the Community Foundation of the cemetery property. [n.d.] [3 pages] | |||
5 | "The Newton Academy Cemetery: A Directory of Information from the Field Documentation and Mapping of the Site." Prepared by C. Michael Baker, Ph.D. Stones Unturned. June 14, 1991, Sponsored by the Newton Academy Cemetery Committee, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, Inc. [34 page listing of grave sites and names] | |||
newt006a newt006b newt006c newt006d newt006e newt006f newt006g newt006h newt006i newt006j |
Stevens, Viola S., "A History of the Newton Academy School and Cemetery." Local History Class, Dr. Harley Jolley, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Institute, May 7, 1974. | |||
7 | PHOTOGRAPHS [digital] | |||
8 | MAP |