The story of traveling Dollar Bill, Sylvan Valley News, December 20, 1907. The idea of local retailers competing with outside businesses is not unique to the era of online shopping,

During the second decade of the 20th century North Carolina enacted a Quarantine Law requiring physicians, parents and teachers report every case of whooping cough, measles, diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever

The first official air mail service in the U.S. took place on May 15, 1918.  Twenty years later Postmaster General James. A. Farley came up with an idea to promote

A May 8, 1903 Sylvan Valley News article titled, “A Visit to Lake Toxaway” provides a vivid picture of scenery, both natural and man-made, surrounding Transylvania’s Toxaway Inn in the

Although not located in Transylvania County, Caesar’s Head Hotel has played an important role in the history of tourism in the county.  The hotel property was just across the county

After coming across old photographs of children in small wood carts pulled by a goat Kim Anderson and Ian Dunn with the Special Collection Section of the State Archives of

The Brevard Music Lovers’ Club was organized in November 1922.   The first meeting, hosted by Mrs. O.L. Erwin, included a discussion of music history and the election of club officers. 

WWNC hosted Brevard’s first night on the air on Thursday, May 19, 1927 in their Asheville radio studio.  The hour long program sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce was comprised

Baxter Franklin “Cyclone Mack” McLendon Baxter Franklin McLendon was born into a poor tenant farming family in South Carolina in 1879.  He received little formal education as a child but

April 1 is the official date for the 2020 Census, information provided by individuals should include everyone living in the household on that date.  The information is used to determine