Crossroads

Here you'll stand on the bed of a road (the Buncombe Turnpike) that was once traveled by Native Americans and, later, by drovers who herded livestock across the mountains from Tennessee to southern markets, taking turkeys, pigs and cows as far as Charleston. Embedded rails (former Asheville trolley trails) represent the coming of the train (1880) and the electric trolley (1889), opening the door to jack rabbit growth along Patton Avenue.