McGaha Chapel, 2011 (The following information was taken directly the Transylvania County Historical Society website, http://www.tchistoricalsociety.com, with permission. It tells the story of one of Transylvania County’s hidden gems. The

Aerial view of DuPont In September 1956 E. I. DuPont purchased over 10,000 acres from the Frank Coxe estate (Buck Forest Club) and the Guion Farm in Henderson County to

Camp Burgiss Glenn’s Hill Top Cabin has board-and-batten siding and a stacked stone chimney. By the 1880s Transylvania County had recovered sufficiently from the Civil War that people were once

Old Buck Forest Hotel In her 1876 novel, The Land of the Sky, Christian Reid promotes the mountains of western North Carolina for adventure travelers.  Reid is speaking of the

The Girl Scouts began with Juliette Gordon Low’s dream to provide girls a chance to grow and learn through activities that explored their community, nature and the larger world around

Cascade Boat House, 1941 Around 1900 Martin Hamilton built a wooden dam with a grist mill and saw mill on the Little River downstream from Hooker Falls. He sold the

Cascade Grocery, 1991 Crab Creek valley along the Little River in Transylvania County had two small communities, Calhoun and Grange, which were just a mile apart on Crab Creek Road.

In 1792, when Transylvania County was part of Buncombe County, Lambert Clayton’s militia was ordered to lay out a road from the Catawba Trail in Flat Rock to the Davidson