ABOUT
Welcome to the website for Asheville Memorial Post 2, the oldest American Legion Post in North Carolina. We are glad you found us!
Our monthly regular meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, with the exception of December and January when no meetings are held.
On 24 July 1919, Post 2 received one of the first Charters with the name of Kiffin Rockwell Post 2. Kiffin was the first member of the Lafayette Escadrille pilots who was killed in combat in France.
On 16 September 1919, Congress charters The American Legion.
In 1942 the Post name was changed to Rockwell/Ballew Post 2 in honor of two brothers, James and John Ballew who lost their lives on 31 October 1941 when a German submarine sank their Destroyer USS Reuben James near Iceland with a loss of 115 lives. Their mother, Frances Ballew, was President of Post 2 Auxiliary.
Since 1919 the Post Home was in a large private residence, but members started construction of a new Post facility at 851 Haywood Road in West Asheville in 1961. In 1991 the Post name was changed to Asheville Memorial Post 2.
Our monthly regular meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, with the exception of December and January when no meetings are held.
On 24 July 1919, Post 2 received one of the first Charters with the name of Kiffin Rockwell Post 2. Kiffin was the first member of the Lafayette Escadrille pilots who was killed in combat in France.
On 16 September 1919, Congress charters The American Legion.
In 1942 the Post name was changed to Rockwell/Ballew Post 2 in honor of two brothers, James and John Ballew who lost their lives on 31 October 1941 when a German submarine sank their Destroyer USS Reuben James near Iceland with a loss of 115 lives. Their mother, Frances Ballew, was President of Post 2 Auxiliary.
Since 1919 the Post Home was in a large private residence, but members started construction of a new Post facility at 851 Haywood Road in West Asheville in 1961. In 1991 the Post name was changed to Asheville Memorial Post 2.