French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-17
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"PatSy { 3rien' DeScantS Upon Incl
C-2ts of By-GOne Days.

wa or the great interest our little
people 5play in the Indian myths
and les Ids. Do we sometimes for
get tha these very woods harbored
the moi less red-skin?
Some ,.Indred and fifty to two hun
dred yClEs ago the first white man,
Andrew ,iller, crossed thA French
Broad I,.Ter by the aid Of friendly
Indians In these early years 'he
Otari O. OverhiIl Cherokees dwelt in
these 7 5.ntains and valleys. Some
claim t. / the Cherokee tribe il one
of the ; tribes of Israel. Their lc-
gends 2 IN that they came from :he
NorthWtz. and ~geographers claim
that Al orica and India We're ono
Joined the Boring Strait by a
peninsu .. Working on this hypoth-
esis Oh could easily reason that
the Hell ews came over that peninsula
to Anne Ga. There are many things
that po. 70 that conclusion. William
Penn S a striking likeness between
the Lor on Jew and the American IN
dian. : is known that the Indian
WORSHIP sd one God and this Deity
was CO ale" the CID Hebrew
name f.. God. They had held animal
festivih :, they reckoned time as did
the He rews, and a similar superSti-
ton M ked their burial places. In
TO theil speech was grated MANY
words Of European origin many
closely resembling the latin ana
Greek such as ChicEamaugu,
meanin the field of dealh;
and : lone, the sound of water.
The s.ory of their removal ex-
ceeds - weight of grief and pathos
any i American history. Great
~,quantit OF blood was shed and
many TN and broken lives were the
result c this expedition. The country
is still redolent of the red-skin and
many his legends and M cling
AS V have mentioned before An
drew I-ler YES the f~et to settle in
tn III River Valley. He came from
IL { ny about 1900 (no exac,
{ & : ID. nd claimed that
tt a he other side of the
French load River was the best in
the co".ty. This surmise turned out
to be correct. His first house. an ole
log cai'.1, is not standing today, but
on the ;tght is a large house built by
OF ~-2Fris who bought the place
from 1-Idrew Miller. When Mr.. Nor
ris 6ic the house and property was
sold tC I. C. Evans, a member of ar
old ar srocratic family in Charleston.
IS. c. He sold the place to Fitzsim-
mons nd when Mrs. Fitzsimmons
died i became the property of Tom
'Osbor- }, who owns it today. In the
'bOttOL- land have been found many
:arrow heads and it is that
the sTct is the site of an old Indian
forge - r> =.
, INF. LIndrew Mi11er's son John Mil
:. Ter, w~5~register of deeds in Asheville
from 1874 to 1888, and was one OF the
7hommj2sionaxB who laid out the city
ofiF&n3egsonville. He is said to have
SaSnS ID that anyone having travel
ed tn Sc d narrow streets OF
Ashe1--.e would want wide streets in
a nev own. To him goes the credit
of the wide streets of our town. His
broth Thomas Miller, married a
Miss rhodes whose father owned.
thous-lds of acres on the other side OF
the French Broad.
'ThG old Rhodes house is still stand
Ing "a built in 1902 by MI.
Rhod-5 who. was5a Scotchman and re-
ceive. the property by grant from
George III. Mr. Miller came into
some IF the property through his wife
and Euilt on a high hill commanding
a wonderful view of the river valley.
The cid house is still there and his
youngest son, who was a captain in
the c I'll War, lived on the place I'M
til hir death a few years ago. His
daugk er, Mrs. l.. S. Fender, still oc-
cupies it. A few of the old houses
that constituted the quarters" are
still s=anding and the water from the
old we'll is just as cold and clear as
jim those early days.
On The Boylston road is standing
another old house built by Nose
Smith a hundred and fifty years ago.
The house was made of logs hewn
from the mountain. Mr.. Ladson, from
Charleston, who has owned the place
for the last forty years, has put
weather boards over the logs making
a very pleasing and comfortable
home.