This too is taken from Old Buncombe County Heritage Book. No. 22. WEAVERVILLE The majority of those who first crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains through the Swannanoa gap were Scotch-Irish from Mecklenburg County, N. C., and were Presbyterian. Many do not know that after the Patton Meeting House was built, the second church was on Reems Creek, built by those who had come up Bull Creek through Bull gap and down thru Ox Creek Valley to Reems Creek to a settlement named Vanceville, now Hemphill. The pioneer John Weaver helped to build this church about 1805 and was a member. It became part of the Methodist connection because of the work of the traveling Circuit Riding Methodist Preachers were the leadership of Bishop Francis Asbury. In 1810 the Reems Creek Camp Ground was organized. A building was erected and the Methodist Annual Conferences for the Holston District were held there in 1833, and 1844. This was quite an honor considering that their territory covered parts of North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and part of Kentucky. The first school was held in the above building, but in 1851 a deed of land from Devault Hunsucker to the Sons of Temperance conveyed five acres for the purpose of erecting an academy to teach children of the community. This evolved into Weaver College. When Buncombe County, was organized, the Weaverville area was well represented and was influential in helping choose the site of the County Seat. -----Stanley West