Old Buncombe Road

33) ran southeast from the trail junction at Cumberland Gap, passed Tazewell, Tate Springs, Morristown, and Witts, near which it crossed the Great Indian Warpath, then went on near Rankin, and Newport, east from a point south of Newport to Paint Rock, and up the French Broad in North Carolina, diverging east to Stocksville, passing near Asheville, and then southeast through Hendersonville, N. C., into South Carolina, where it became what was later known as the Old South Carolina State Road to the north (No.

[8] In 1803 Phillip Hoodenpile oversaw the construction of a "fairly good road" between the Hot Springs and Newport, Tennessee.

[13] The 1827 duel that killed Robert Brank Vance (at which Davy Crockett was present), took place at the state line on the Buncombe Road.

[5] The full Buncombe Turnpike opened in 1828 with toll gates every 10 miles and stands (or rest stops) developed a flourishing trade.

"[15] In 1828, during the lead up to the presidential election with its debates over tariffs and internal improvements, South Carolina planter and former Congressman David R. Williams wrote, "It has been satisfactorily ascertained that there are brought into this State over the Saluda mountain road alone, from the West, US$1,500,000 (equivalent to $41,618,182 in 2023) worth of live stock annually.

"[16] British tourist J. S. Buckingham rode in one of the stage coaches that regularly traveled between Charleston and Asheville and recorded, "While on the left we could almost drop a stone into the water from the carriage window on that side, we could put out our hands and touch the rock of the perpendicular cliff on the other.