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Asheville was the hub of Buncombe County industry. It featured no less than sixty manufacturing plants and employed more than 15,000 people. Five bottling companies were located in the greater Asheville area, including a Coca-Cola and Nehi plant. Important industries were also located outside of Asheville. Enka, located six miles west of Asheville, was home to one of the largest factories in the South, the American Enka Corporation, where workers spun rayon thread from spruce pulp. The Beacon Manufacturing Company, located in Swannanoa, produced blankets that sold worldwide.
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14860
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German merchant marine sailors were held prisoner in the only North Carolina POW camp during World War I. The camp was established at Hot Springs located 40 miles north of Asheville and housed prisoners taken while in various American harbors. Initially housed in tents, the prisoners built more stable dwellings after being supplied with tools and lumber. Eighteen prisoners died after an outbreak of typhoid and were buried in Asheville's Riverside cemetery where a monument, erected by the American Legion in 1932, now stands to honor those at the camp who passed.
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