Follow the Trail

Experience this trail in pieces as you explore Asheville or start at one of our three introduction kiosks to learn more about how Black people in Asheville negotiated landscapes of unequal power to build resilient communities and foster social change.

Follow the Trail

Asheville Elects Freedman Newton Shepard

Graduates of the Allen School

Stephens-Lee High School Educates Legends and Heroes

Historical Black Churches in Asheville

The YMI & W.E. and Georgia Roland

Isaac Dickson and the Historic East End Neighborhood

Black Doctors, Nurses, and Hospitals

Robert McMorris and Wendell Charles Blair, Sr.

The Legacy of E.W. and Annis Pearson in Asheville

Black Women Fund Advocacy, Housing, and Education

The National Housing Act of 1934

The Flood of 1916

Asheville’s Black Newspapers

Unsung Builders of the Swannanoa Tunnel

America's First Black Union Represents Ashevillians

William R. “Seabron” Saxon

Asheville’s Southside

How to Get Started

Downtown

Southside

River Area

Sylvester Owens Produced Beauty as Biltmore Estate’s Head Gardener

Dig Deeper

A Musical Tribute to the Lives Lost in the Swannanoa Gap Tunnel

Dr. Charles Blair: A Crusader for Health Care Equality

A Long Legacy of Black Media in Asheville

Mechanic and Southside Mentor: Remembering Wendell “Tank” Charles Blair, Sr.