During pioneer days, Samuel Chunn maintained a hotel in Asheville on the southwestern corner of the public square in Asheville, North Carolina. He was also engaged in the business of tanning leather. His tanyard was on Glenn’s Creek, Beaverdam Street, and North Main Street. In 1806, he was made chairman of Buncombe County Court, and, the following year was appointed the jailer in Asheville.
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