Hi John, In Buncombe County, NC you may want to visit the grave site of our ancestor Major William Davidson at Swannanoa Presbyterian Church (many other relatives are buried there also), the grave site of his twin brother Samuel Davidson on nearby Jones Mountain,  the Smith-McDowell House in Asheville (where Daniel Smith's rifle is on display), the David Vance home place and possibly the Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society. There are several other places in Asheville/Buncombe County of interest , so hopefully these few I have mentioned will be a good starting point.   James B. Butts ----- Original Message ---- From: John Lisle <davidson@tqsi.com> To: davidson@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, September 7, 2008 5:19:31 AM Subject: [DAVIDSON] Travelling to Tennessee and North Carolina Hi list members, No DNA or list etiquette in this message! My wife recently retired, and we decided to "celebrate" by taking a bit of a tour to some of my Davidson ancestral places in Tennessee and North Carolina. Although I have been an avid researcher of the Davidson families in these areas for many years, I have never actually visited these places that my grandmother's ancestors lived. My projected itinerary has us in Nashville during the weekend of 11-14 September and in Atlanta area during the following weekend. In between Nashville and Atlanta and the week after Atlanta, we plan to stop in sites in the Bedford/Coffee Co., TN; Buncombe/Transylvania Co., NC; and Iredell Co., NC, with a somewhat fluid schedule. If anyone has any specific suggestions for places to visit or any special events during that time period, I would like to hear of them. Thanks, john. Nashua, NH ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVIDSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message