Ashton Williams was born in rural Missouri on May 23rd, 1836, 25 years prior to Ashville’s founding. After Bleeding Kansas he would head west until he reached Oregon, […]

March 28th, 1923, one of the most important days in Ashville’s history. For reasons unknown, a fire broke out at Jones’s Family Diner, quickly spreading to most of […]

Ashton Williams, Victoria Anderson, Charles Mayfield, Wilson Hughes, Samuel Jones, and Thomas Schmidt, these names are remembered today as the founders of Ashville. Their families have shaped Ashville’s […]