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Station # 2...
"Crossroads"
by: Margery Torre-Godwin
Located on Patton Avenue at the base of the Vance Monument is a curving path between metal rails, which bears footprints of the people and animals that once walked this way. This site represents the crossing of the ancient Native American trade routes and what later became the Buncombe Turnpike. Farmers from Tennessee herded their turkeys, hogs and cattle along this route through the public square to southern markets.
The rails outlining the path symbolize the "iron horse" which streamed into Asheville in 1880 and the streetcars, which were important to Asheville's economy. Asheville had the second electric streetcar system in the United States.
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