Black Bottom began where S. Church Street intersects with W. Caswell Street addresses 203-302 to the bend of Kanuga (Present day Hot Dog World location). At the time the neighborhood of Black Bottom existed, this part of Kanuga was named Caswell. Houses of Black Bottom …
Donald R. “Donnie” Parks, Hendersonville’s First African-American Chief of Police. Black Bottom The real estate bounded by Kanuga, Barnwell and South Church Streets once hosted “Black Bottom,” a hamlet of stilt houses occupied by members of Hendersonville’s African American townspeople. The houses, mostly built in …