Waynesville, North Carolina Waynesville, North Carolina Waynesville, North Carolina Waynesville, North Carolina Official seal of Waynesville, North Carolina Location in North Carolina Location in North Carolina State North Carolina Water 0 sq mi (0 km2) 0% Website Town of Waynesville Waynesville is a town in and the governmental center of county of Haywood County, North Carolina, United States. It is the biggest town in Haywood County and the biggest in Western North Carolina west of Asheville.
Waynesville is positioned about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Asheville between the Great Smoky and Blue Ridge mountain peaks.
In the 2000 census, the town had a total populace of 9,232 with an estimate (by the town government) of 10,000 as of early 2007 and 9,869 at the 2010 census and 9,789 in 2012.
Waynesville is positioned just outside the Pisgah National Forest and is close to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Waynesville and Haywood County are part of the four-county Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area, presently the 5th biggest urbane region in North Carolina.
Waynesville is positioned at 35 29 00 N 82 59 40 W (35.483226, -82.994511). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 7.8 square miles (20 km2), all of it land.
Most of the town of Waynesville lies between 2500 and 3000 feet (750~900m) above sea level, and is positioned in a valley among 6000-foot (1800m) mountain peaks.
A USGS survey marker at the old Haywood County Courthouse in downtown Waynesville lists the altitude as 2,752 feet (839 m) above sea level.
As of late 2006 the town of Waynesville government estimated the populace at 10,000.
Climate data for Waynesville, North Carolina Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 2.1 2.1 1.2 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 1.4 7.6 Downtown Waynesville c.
The Town of Waynesville was established in 1810 by Colonel Robert Love, an American Revolutionary War soldier.
The Boone-Withers House, Citizens Bank and Trust Company Building, Former, Francis Grist Mill, Frog Level Historic District, Haywood County Courthouse, Alden and Thomasene Howell House, Masonic Hall, Charles and Annie Quinlan House, Clyde H.
House, Frank Smathers House, Spread Out Historic District, Waynesville Municipal Building, Dr.
Howell Way House, and Waynesville Main Street Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The "Battle" of Waynesville Waynesville also has a connection to another war, as it was the scene of the last and perhaps most unusual skirmish in the easterly theater of the American Civil War.
Bartlett's 2nd North Carolina (Federal) Mounted Infantry were raiding, pillaging, burning homes and engaging in other activities to undermine the economic base of the region and were attacked at White Sulphur Springs (east of Waynesville) by a detachment of rebels from the Thomas Legion of Highlanders, who had been summoned for help by locals.
The disoriented Union soldiers retreated into Waynesville, and on the evening of May 6 remaining elements of the Thomas Legion surrounded the town.
The Town of Waynesville was incorporated in 1871.
In July 1995, the suburbs of Hazelwood and Waynesville consolidated into one improve and continued to expanded with a populace today of almost 10,000.
Waynesville Train Depot in Frog Level, c.
Waynesville began to see evolution after arrival of the barns in 1884.
The agricultural, lumber and tourism industries in Waynesville and Haywood County began to thrive as access to the west was opened up.
The region of Waynesville positioned along Richland Creek, northwest and down hill from Main Street, was where the barns tracks were laid.
Frog Level was so titled by the small-town improve because of its low-lying locale along Richland Creek, the "frog level" when the region flooded.
Downtown and the close-by Frog Level commercial centers of Waynesville continued to be the central focus for civil life, transportation, and wholesale and retail businesses through the 1940s.
Businesses in the Frog Level region in the 1930s and 1940s encompassed hardware stores, farm supplies, coal sales, auto dealers and garages, furniture stores, wholesale food, and warehouses and lumber companies, all of which were businesses dependent on the barns .
The last passenger train appeared in Waynesville in 1949, and freight trains pass through Frog Level twice daily, with most trains closing on to Sylva.
By the 1980s the barns in Waynesville had been integrated into the Southern Railway Company system.
Downtown Waynesville (2012) Downtown - Once the major retail market seat of the town, downtown Waynesville is now home to art arcades, cafes, restaurants, shops, banks, doctors offices, and town and county government administration buildings.
In 2003, the Frog Level Historic District was placed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The historic Murphy Branch of the old Western North Carolina Railroad runs through Frog Level and still carries freight rail traffic twice daily from the Blue Ridge Southern Railway, which now owns the line.
Hazelwood - Due to financial troubles, this once autonomous town ceased to exist and was took in by Waynesville in 1995.
West Waynesville - Once the industrialized part of town, West Waynesville is now home to a large shopping center called Waynesville Commons which sits on the site of the old Dayco factory and includes the following retailers: Walmart, Best Buy, Belk, Pet - Smart, Michaels, Rack Room Shoes, Game - Stop, Sally Beauty Supply, Verizon Wireless, US Cellular, Super Clips, Mattress Firm, and Citi Financial.
Waynesville is connected to Interstate 40 and the rest of Southwestern North Carolina via the Great Smoky Mountains Expressway, giving it easy access to Knoxville, Tennessee and Asheville.
It is served by the Great Smoky Mountain Expressway which is a 4 lane divided highway between Sylva and Exit 98 near West Waynesville.
It has exits for Hazelwood, West Waynesville and Russ Avenue through the town.
In 2014, Watco Companies purchased all of the barns track running through Waynesville from Norfolk Southern for its Blue Ridge Southern Railroad short line.
The line joins Waynesville by barns to Sylva to the west, as well as to the interchange with Norfolk Southern at Asheville to the east.
Waynesville's watershed is positioned southwest of the town and covers an region of 8,400 acres (34 km2) of town-owned territory on the headwaters of Allens Creek making it much larger than the town itself (7.9 square miles.) Tributary streams inside the watershed flow into the Waynesville Reservoir, a 50-acre (200,000 m2) man-made lake created by a dam on Allens Creek.
The reservoir and encircling watershed are classified by the State of North Carolina as WS-1.
Cold Mountain, positioned 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Waynesville inside the Pisgah National Forest, was made famous by the novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.
The scene where Jack Lemmon and James Garner are chased from a fast food restaurant parking lot in a car and a enormous clown sign crashes through their windshield was filmed at the former Long John Silver's, now a Celluar - Sales.com Verizon wireless charter location, on Russ Avenue in Waynesville.
Over the Summer a B movie filmed in the late 1980s, was produced by Haywood County native Buffy Queen and shot entirely in Frog Level.
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