Wicked Asheville

Wicked Asheville

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Publication Date: 17th September 2018

Discover the wicked and sordid history of Asheville, North Carolina in this volume by author and Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling.

Asheville is a wonderfully strange city, but it has a few shadows in its past. Teenager Helen Clevenger was brutally murdered at the luxurious Battery Park Hotel in 1936. William Dudley Pelley called himself ""America's Hitler"" and founded his Silver Legion in Asheville. He stirred up enough anti war propaganda to go to prison. A desperado named Will Harris came into town on a cold night in November 1906 and left a trail of dead bodies and... Read More

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    Discover the wicked and sordid history of Asheville, North Carolina in this volume by author and Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling.

    Asheville is a wonderfully strange city, but it has a few shadows in its past. Teenager Helen Clevenger was brutally murdered at the luxurious Battery Park Hotel in 1936. William Dudley Pelley called himself ""America's Hitler"" and founded his Silver Legion in Asheville. He stirred up enough anti war propaganda to go to prison. A desperado named Will Harris came into town on a cold night in November 1906 and left a trail of dead bodies and... Read More
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    Discover the wicked and sordid history of Asheville, North Carolina in this volume by author and Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling.

    Asheville is a wonderfully strange city, but it has a few shadows in its past. Teenager Helen Clevenger was brutally murdered at the luxurious Battery Park Hotel in 1936. William Dudley Pelley called himself ""America's Hitler"" and founded his Silver Legion in Asheville. He stirred up enough anti war propaganda to go to prison. A desperado named Will Harris came into town on a cold night in November 1906 and left a trail of dead bodies and panic among Asheville citizens. Mayor Gallatin Roberts killed himself in the wake of collapsing banks. Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling delves into wicked stories of murder, sedition, corruption, arson and disease.

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    • Pages: 144
    • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
    • Imprint: The History Press
    • Series: Wicked
    • Publication Date: 17th September 2018
    • State: North Carolina
    • Illustration Note: Black and White
    • ISBN: 9781467138802
    • Format: Paperback
    • BISACs:
      PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Lifestyles
      TRUE CRIME / General
      PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
      HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
    Reviews

    "In "Wicked Asheville," Milling explores stories no marketing campaign would dare use to promote Asheville. The book brims with details of murder and mayhem, corruption, arson, and disease... Milling uses her acute reporting skills to explore these chilling cases and uncovers details that make the reader pause with discomfort (and wonder why the author has chosen to recall such bizarre events from the past)." Asheville Citizen Times

    Discover the wicked and sordid history of Asheville, North Carolina in this volume by author and Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling.

    Asheville is a wonderfully strange city, but it has a few shadows in its past. Teenager Helen Clevenger was brutally murdered at the luxurious Battery Park Hotel in 1936. William Dudley Pelley called himself ""America's Hitler"" and founded his Silver Legion in Asheville. He stirred up enough anti war propaganda to go to prison. A desperado named Will Harris came into town on a cold night in November 1906 and left a trail of dead bodies and panic among Asheville citizens. Mayor Gallatin Roberts killed himself in the wake of collapsing banks. Asheville native Marla Hardee Milling delves into wicked stories of murder, sedition, corruption, arson and disease.

    • Pages: 144
    • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
    • Imprint: The History Press
    • Series: Wicked
    • Publication Date: 17th September 2018
    • State: North Carolina
    • Illustrations Note: Black and White
    • ISBN: 9781467138802
    • Format: Paperback
    • BISACs:
      PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Lifestyles
      TRUE CRIME / General
      PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
      HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

    "In "Wicked Asheville," Milling explores stories no marketing campaign would dare use to promote Asheville. The book brims with details of murder and mayhem, corruption, arson, and disease... Milling uses her acute reporting skills to explore these chilling cases and uncovers details that make the reader pause with discomfort (and wonder why the author has chosen to recall such bizarre events from the past)." Asheville Citizen Times

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