Early residents, friends, and relatives soon began gathering for religious camp meetings near the south end of College Street.

In 1927 grades 11-12 attended school in the Robinsom-Lotspeich house (now the Inn on Main Street Bed and Breakfast).

Reagan was the first mayor, and with a town council Weaverville began to develop roads and walkways.

Post offices, starting in 1860, were located in McClure's log cabin, Vandiver's Store (now Blue Mountain Pizza) and Shope's Furniture.

North Carolina's Civil War governor, Zebulon B. Vance, was born in the nearby Reems Creek community.

[5] Reems Creek itself flows through Weaverville adjacent to the town's Lake Louise Park.

The mill at Reem's Creek was portrayed in "Picturesque America," a famous 19th century work of illustrated American scenes published in 1872.

[6][7] Construction began in March 2017 of the 35,000-square-foot ASPCA Behavioral Rehabilitation Center at an old cement plant on Murphy Hill Road.

The $9 million project will "likely to be the first-ever facility dedicated strictly to providing behavioral rehabilitation to canine victims of cruelty and neglect in the United States.

[citation needed] In 1963, A-B Emblem, one of the world's largest producers of embroidered patches, built a factory in Weaverville.

A branch of Arvato Digital Services, formerly Sonopress - the world's second-largest replicator of CDs and DVDs, used to operate a facility in Weaverville.

The Solstice East[9] residential treatment center for girls is located in Weaverville.

Routes 25 and 70 head west from exit 19, leading 52 miles (84 km) to Newport, Tennessee.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.4 square miles (8.9 km2), of which 0.008 square miles (0.02 km2), or 0.24%, is water,[13] including a man-made lake on the southern outskirts of town named Lake Louise.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 4,567 people, 1,785 households, and 1,072 families residing in the town.