Historic Buncombe County ford across the North Fork of Big Ivy Creek. McKinney's Ford was a river crossing on the old wagon road from Asheville to Burnsville and was used from the 1850's up to the 1920's. It's about one half a mile Southwest from the Carter-Swain House, (c. 1849) which in the later part of the 19th century, served as a store, post office and inn on the old wagon road.
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Life on the Ivy
The ripest time on the Ivy, is when the spring chorus frogs and peepers hatch out and ooze back into the world. The frog bloom, even more th...
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The ripest time on the Ivy, is when the spring chorus frogs and peepers hatch out and ooze back into the world. The frog bloom, even more th...

I added in the notation, on the 1901 map, of the ford's location. The road leading to it is now called Charcoal Road but it used to be referred to as Main Street (for Democrat) and the Old Burnsville Road
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