Weaverville is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 3,120 at the 2010 census. It is allocation of the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Chartered in 1875 and named for Michael Montraville Weaver who gave the estate for the town, Weaverville sits along the Dry Ridge (named by the Indians for its relatively arid conditions). The Treaty of Holston signed in 1786 cleared the quirk for settlers to assume into the area. Among the first settlers were John and Elizabeth Weaver, parents of the town’s founder. Early residents, friends, and intimates soon began buildup for religious camp meetings close the south subside of College Street. On home first known as the Reems Creek Camp Grounds, a large conference house (built in the 1830s) housed the Methodist assembly which became the first assistant professor in the area in 1840.

By 1862, 121 families were in the Reems Creek area, many owning exceeding 1,000 acres (400 ha). Weaverville College, chartered in 1873, attracted many families. The former president’s house is now the Dry Ridge Bed and Breakfast. A four-year college, it was downsized in 1912 to junior teacher status, merging in 1934 in the same way as Rutherford and Brevard Colleges to continue in Brevard. In 1912 a public school (grades 1-7) was located at the west halt of Church Street. The first full-time public school on Main Street was traditional in 1921. In 1927 grades 11-12 attended hypothetical in the Robinsom-Lotspeich house (now the Inn on Main Street Bed and Breakfast). Weaverville High School, built by the WPA in 1927, opened on the south decrease of Main Street, but far ahead merged secondary-school operations similar to four other Place schools (Flat Creek, Red Oak, French Broad, and Barnardsville) in 1954 to form North Buncombe High School. Today, Weaverville is house to two public schools: Weaverville Primary School at 39 S. Main Street, and Weaverville Elementary School at 129 S. Main Street. Both are part of the Buncombe County School system. Weaverville Primary School is home to kindergarten and first grade. Weaverville Elementary School is home to grades 2-4. Weaverville resident children in grades 5-6 attend North Windy Ridge School; those in grades 7-8 attend North Buncombe Middle School; and those in grades 9-12 attend North Buncombe High School, all three of which are north of the town limits.

Business and private residences were built along Main Street. Dr. J.A. Reagan was the first mayor, and once a town council Weaverville began to produce roads and walkways. A police chief developed accomplishment and order. With the introduction of electricity and the dawn of an electric trolley the town prospered. Land progress boomed. Post offices, starting in 1860, were located in McClure’s log cabin, Vandiver’s Store (now Blue Mountain Pizza) and Shope’s Furniture. A supplementary post office was completed in 2001 upon North Main.