From here, visitors can travel back to Asheville along the scenic route or take a right onto Ox Creek Road for a curvy four miles, then right onto Reems Creek Road to Vance Birthplace State Historic Site.
The county is named after Zebulon Baird Vance, a Governor of North Carolina (1862–1865, 1877–1879) and United States senator (1879–1894).
At the age of twenty-one, he wrote to the President of the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, former Governor David L. Swain, and asked for a loan so that he could attend law school.
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A portrait of Vance hangs in the Dialectic Chamber of The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jack Vance | Cyrus Vance | Zebulon Pike | John Baird | At Vance | Baird | John Logie Baird | Jason Baird Jackson | Zebulon Baird Vance | Vance Packard | Tommy Vance | John Baird (Canadian politician) | Foy Vance | Dan Baird | Bruce Baird | AT VANCE | William Vance | William M. Baird | Vivian Vance | Vance Astro | Tadeusz Baird | Spencer Fullerton Baird | Rob Baird | Philo Vance | Paul Vance | John Baird (Wolverhampton MP) | George Baird Hodge | Gene Vance | David Baird (soldier) | Bil Baird |
The event was attended by many governors, senators and congressmen and addresses were made by Kimball, Governor Colquitt, North Carolina Senator Z.B. Vance and Indiana Senator D.W. Voorhees.