The whole Asheville - Hendersonville area has become something of a new age mecca. The "Paris of the South" is now the "San Francisco of the East." You should take a walk around downtown to see all the stores selling healing crystals and wiccan paraphernalia. It's a beautiful part of the country, which does seem to draw the alternate types... they think it's a vortex of some sort, like Sedona.
This is Henderson, in Vance County, about 50 miles north of Raleigh near the Virginia border, not Hendersonville.
Henderson NC is in the North Central part of the state. Hendersonville is in Western NC.