Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Fletcher, NC

Fletcher is a town in Henderson County on the northern edge of the county, bordered by Asheville to the north, and it sits adjacent to Asheville Regional Airport in the Asheville metropolitan area.

The area was first settled in 1795, when Samuel Murray brought his family up the old Howard Gap Road from South Carolina and eventually bought more than 10,000 acres around Cane Creek and the French Broad River.

The community's first post office opened in 1827 and the settlement became known as Murrayville, a way station on the Buncombe Turnpike, the main road for travelers moving from South Carolina up to Asheville.

Murrayville was renamed Shufordsville in 1837 for postmaster Jacob Rhyne Shuford, and in 1838 it became part of the newly created Henderson County.

The town took its present name in 1886, when Dr. George Fletcher became the local postmaster.

Fletcher was not incorporated until 1989, and its town motto is "Pride in our past, and faith in our future."

The 2020 census counted 7,987 people in Fletcher, living in 3,387 households, after rapid growth from just 2,787 residents in 1990.

Fletcher is home to Fletcher Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school founded in 1910 as the Mountain Sanitarium and Asheville Agricultural School under the guidance of Ellen G. White, on a campus of about 600 acres of farm, field and forest.

Fletcher Academy's campus also includes Captain Gilmer Christian School for kindergarten through eighth grade, and the Fletcher area has one of the largest Seventh-day Adventist communities in North Carolina.

Two Fletcher properties, The Meadows and Rugby Grange, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.