SOUTHWEST ASHEVILLE. Just north of Aston street was the brick store of
Patton & Osborne, and later Patton & Summey, adjoining which was the
tailor shop of "Uncle" Manuel, one of James W. Patton's slaves. Then came
a white house which was kept for guests when there was an overflow crowd
at the Eagle hotel. Between this house and the Daylight store, J. M. Smith
some years later erected a two-story building for the use of Dr. T. C.
Lester, a physician who came from South Carolina and settled here about
1845. He kept a sort of drug store, the first of its kind in Asheville.
The negroes called it a shot-i-carry-pop, in their effort to call it an
apothecary shop. Hilliard Hall now stands where it stood. Just above was
the residence and place of business of James B. Mears, now the Daylight
store. Then came Drake Jarrett's place-better known as the Coche(7) place
"where for many years the little short-legged 'monsieur' and his 'madam'
dealt out that which Solomon .says biteth like a serpent and stingeth like
an adder." Thus was reached what was the Chunn property, which, beginning
at the lower side of T. C. Smith's drug store, ran straight back to Church
street. Samuel Chunn had lived in a large brick house which fronted north,
and which was later replaced by a building used as a banking house, known
as the Bank building. This was about 1845. The Asheville branch of the
Bank of Cape Fear occupied it till the Civil War period. The residence of
A. B. Churn stood on the corner now occupied by Pat McIntyre's grocery
store. An old stable stood at the corner of Patton and Lexington avenues.

LARGE LAND OWNERS. In the angle formed by Patton avenue and South Main
street, according to Dr. Baird, the lands were owned principally by James
M. Smith, Col. James M. Alexander, James W. Patton, and Samuel Chunn, but
James B. Mears and Drake Jarrett owned from T. C. Smith's drug store down
to and including Mears' Daylight store.