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This Week in Ashe County History:
Date | Event | 03-11-1960 | On this day, National Guard helicopters arrived to deliver relief supplies to Ashe residents trapped in their homes due to the massive snows. They cleared a space just above West Jefferson which is now home to the Library and West Jefferson Park to use as the base of operations. |
03-13-1965 | On this day, The Ashe Central Varsity boys won the North Carolina State Championship in 2-A basketball, defeating Anson County High 85-68. This was the first and only Ashe County basketball team to win the state championship. The team starters had played under the same coach since middle school and were determined their senior year to win a championship. Two days after their victory, their coach, Wade Rose passed away. |
03-15-1854 | On this day a disgruntled slave named Issac broke into the home of his owner, a Mr. Mitchell, an Ashe County resident, and murdered his wife. The slave was arrested and taken to Jail in Grayson County, Virginia. He was later lynched by a angry mob in Grayson County. |
03-15-1965 | On this day, Wade Rose, coach of the 1965 Ashe Central varsity basketball team, passed away just two days after his team won the state championship. The chapel in Ashe Memorial Hospital is named in honor of Coach Rose. |
03-17-1877 | Revenue agents, pursuing an illicit whiskey making operation, came to the home of Johnson Snyder, seeking to arrest his sons. When Snyder blocked their way, he was fatally shot. Both his sons, Hamilton and Alexander, were also severely wounded by the revenue agents. |
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