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Buncombe County And District Agricultural Fair
Buncombe may refer to: * Buncombe County, North Carolina * Buncombe, Illinois * An alternative spelling of Buncom, Oregon * Edward Buncombe Edward Buncombe (1742–1778) was a plantation owner from the Province of North Carolina who served as a colonel in the North Carolina militia and Continental Army (the army of the Patriot side) in the American Revolutionary War. He is the namesak ..., an 18th-century plantation owner * wikt:buncombe or wikt:bunkum, a term meaning "nonsense", derived from 19th-century American politics {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buncombe County, North Carolina
Buncombe County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is classified within Western North Carolina. The 2020 census reported the population was 269,452. Its county seat is Asheville. Buncombe County is part of the Asheville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. History In December, 1792 and April 1793, John Dillard was a Commissioner in a local political dispute of determining where the county seat of Buncombe County should be located. It was provided in an act creating Buncombe County that a committee of five persons be appointed for the selection of the site. A dispute arose between two factions of Buncombe County residents on opposite sides of the Swannanoa River, one faction pressing for the county seat to be north of Swannanoa, which is now the center of Asheville, and the other faction demanding it to be at a place south of Swannanoa River which later became known as the "Steam Saw Mill Place" and which is now the southern part of the City of Asheville. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buncombe, Illinois
Buncombe is a village in Johnson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 203 at the 2010 census and as of 2018, the population had declined to an estimated 173. Geography Buncombe is located in western Johnson County at (37.470987, -88.974935). Illinois Route 37 passes through the village, leading north to Goreville and south to Cypress. Vienna, the county seat, is to the southeast via Route 37 and Route 146. According to the 2010 census, Buncombe has a total area of , of which (or 98.92%) is land and (or 1.08%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 186 people, 75 households, and 53 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 86 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 99.46% White and 0.54% Native American. There were 75 households, out of which 29.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.7% were married couples living together, 6.7% had a female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buncom, Oregon
Buncom (also spelled Bunkum or Buncombe) is an abandoned mining town at the confluence of the Little Applegate River and Sterling Creek in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. It is approximately southwest of Medford, at an elevation of above sea level. The site is promoted by the local historical society as a ghost town. History Buncom was first settled by Chinese miners in 1851 when gold was discovered in nearby Sterling Creek and Jacksonville. Minerals such as cinnabar, chromite, and silver were also mined. A general store was built, and in 1861 J. T. Williams opened a saloon. The Buncom Mining District was created in 1867. Buncom post office was established in 1896. By 1918, the gold in the area was depleted, the post office was closed, and the town was abandoned. Most of the buildings were later burned down. Only three buildings from the early 1900s remain: the post office (built in 1910), the cookhouse, and the bunkhouse. In 1991, the Buncom Historical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Buncombe
Edward Buncombe (1742–1778) was a plantation owner from the Province of North Carolina who served as a colonel in the North Carolina militia and Continental Army (the army of the Patriot side) in the American Revolutionary War. He is the namesake of Buncombe County in western North Carolina. In 1820, his surname (in its status as the name of that county) became the source of the derogatory American slang term, "bunkum" and its shortened form, " bunk" in consequence of the U.S. representative for the county, Felix Walker, invoking the county during a poorly received speech delivered on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Biography Buncombe was born in 1742 on the West Indies island of St. Christopher (today St. Kitts).WNC Heritage - A Collaborative Database. Col. Edward 8Buncombe. Web page. He grew up there and in England. He immigrated to North Carolina in 1768 and settled at a plantation he had inherited near the shore of Albemarle Sound on the Atlantic coast, in w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buncombe
Buncombe may refer to: * Buncombe County, North Carolina * Buncombe, Illinois * An alternative spelling of Buncom, Oregon * Edward Buncombe Edward Buncombe (1742–1778) was a plantation owner from the Province of North Carolina who served as a colonel in the North Carolina militia and Continental Army (the army of the Patriot side) in the American Revolutionary War. He is the namesak ..., an 18th-century plantation owner * wikt:buncombe or wikt:bunkum, a term meaning "nonsense", derived from 19th-century American politics {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |