Create the First Black Heritage Site in Downtown Asheville, NC.

There are five Confederate Markers in downtown Asheville including the Vance Monument. A monument to Col. Connelly (Gettysburg) and General Robert E. Lee (The Dixie Highway) are right next to it, and often overlooked, on a large marble marker. 2 blocks over at the County Courthouse is a monument for the Chickamauga Battle (Chattanooga) and a historical marker for the Confederate Armory (operated in part by slave labor) a few feet away. Still, there is no marker that shares the history of the African American community prior to 1865 even while the site of the Vance monument is the location of the Buncombe County Court House where people were sold and their bills of sale recorded.