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A small Madison County town, Marshall has made the most of riverside living.
Marshall, population 800, is the Madison County seat and sits on the banks of the French Broad River some 20 miles north of Asheville. The area is rich with local history, as it was a key way station on the Buncombe Turnpike, an early trading route that ran from Tennessee though Western North Carolina to South Carolina.
Marshall is located in the heart of Madison County, several minutes from Interstate 26. The Madison County branch of A-B Tech is located nearby, as are city and county schools (elementary, middle, and high school). Access to state-of-the-art medical facilities are available in nearby Asheville, including Mission Hospital, the largest in the region. The Cherokee National Forest is just minutes north and west.
Mars Hill: 15 minutes
Weaverville: 19 minutes
Hot Springs: 24 minutes
Barnardsville: 27 minutes
Downtown Asheville: 28 minutes
Asheville Regional Airport: 37 minutes
Madison County (pop. 21,000) is located deep in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina, and much of the county's terrain is rugged, heavily forested, and sparsely populated. The county's northern border is with the state of Tennessee. Madison County's largest river is the French Broad River, which flows north-northwest through the county, first past the county seat of Marshall, then past the resort town of Hot Springs.
Marshall residents pay property taxes based on their location, as totaled below. Tax rates are per $100 of assessed valuation.
Madison County: $ 0.52
Marshall: $ 0.49
Marshall's Main Street offers signs of the town's unique blend of old and the new. There's a bookstore and numerous cafes, galleries, antique shops, and eateries. Hovering above it all is the historic, cupola-domed county courthouse, which was built in 1906 and designed by the famed Biltmore Estate architect Richard Sharp Smith.
Marshall is an enclave of artists that's in the midst of a renaissance. There are dozens of local galleries and studios, including the epicenter of local arts: Marshall High Studios, a former high school on Blannahassett Island in the middle of the river that's connected to downtown by a bridge. The building, which dates to 1925, was renovated and reopened in 2007 as a home for 28 artist studios. In addition to hosting working artists who specialize in numerous different media, the 28,000-square-foot facility hosts regular classes, exhibitions, and performances.
One Main Street mainstay is The Depot, an old-timey general store. It's a great community shopping spot that doubles as a performance venue on Friday nights, when local musicians strike up a soundtrack of traditional bluegrass and country music. Music can also be heard at the town's regular French Broad Fridays, a series of free outdoor concerts.
Several other local institutions keep Marshall's art scene humming. The Madison County Arts Center, also on Main Street, presents regular exhibitions of both traditional and contemporary art.
A couple of blocks away is the volunteer-run French Broad Institute (Of Time and The River). "The FBI," which was opened in 2007 in a former Methodist church built in 1912, served the community "by providing a forum for curated collaborations, multidisciplinary performances," and "an investigative think tank for reimagining the relationship between traditional and avant-garde arts, and between the time-based arts and the natural sciences."
Another of Marshall's unconventional centers is the Prama Institute, a nonprofit holistic retreat just a mile from downtown. Founded in 2005, the institute hosts workshops, seminars, yoga classes, spiritual gatherings, and other events. On the near horizon, it plans to expand into an eco-village with an organic farm.
