Editor’s Note: Western North Carolina is rich with untold stories—many resting quietly in local cemeteries. In this Tombstone Tales series, we explore the lives of people from our region’s past whose legacies, whether widely known or nearly forgotten, helped shape the place we call home.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — Long after Biltmore Estate was built, a piece of its limestone found a second life in Riverside Cemetery.
The stone became one of the cemetery’s most recognizable monuments: a solemn angel overlooking the Buchanan family plot. Known as the Buchanan angel, the monument is a lasting link between Asheville’s most famous mansion and one of its historic burial grounds…