The Vance/Hemphill house

These names painted on blue signs are those of the enslaved people in the Vance household. Apparently there had been grafitti painted on this wall about "Black Lives Matter." The museum wanted to show who those black lives were. 

In Asheville, following George Floyd's death, the Vance Monument was taken down. It has still not been replaced.

At this site is a historic slave house, which I'll share later...

Now let's look through windows of the Vance/Hemphill house.

A second fireplace backs onto the kitchen fireplace.

The parlor would have been where a lot of the life took place. 

One of the beds is located there. There's a second floor as well, so several other bedrooms were available And through the doorway behind the head of this bed is another small bedroom

Dishes on display in the parlor.

The back side of the main Vance House.

The back side of the kitchen.

View of the reconstructed slave house from the Vance house.

Skins hanging over this shed, but I don't know what the shed's purpose was. Tanning?

A carpenter's bench outside the tool shed

Lots of period tools on display in the tool shed.

Wood shed. They heated and cooked with wood during and before and arter the Civil War.

Great weaving loom in the Weaving House

Spring house and slave house (only one slave quarter is part of this well kept display.

The spring house as seen from the Vance house.

These huge iron tubs could be used to heat water to wash clothes, or for other purposes.

More on the slave house and the museum details of their lives...soon!

Today's Quote:

H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic ( 1880-1956)  "To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies — the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said — there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident."