When Carl Schenck created the first forestry school in America in the Pisgah Forest, Biltmore Forest School (BFS), he managed the 100,000-acre tract owned by

Elizabeth Ann Neill (Morris), great-granddaughter of Lambert Clayton and Sarah Davidson Clayton, is another real historical figure who appears in Parker and Borhaug’s “To Stand

Last week’s article ended with the Godfreys selling the historic Godfrey-Barnette house on South Broad Street to the Stokes family in 1929. This week will

The Godfrey-Barnette House, which has at times been called Linden Tree Manor, was built in 1918 on land that belonged to George McCoy Hixson. The

In the 1880s, the Hart family settled in the Pisgah Forest area and built a homestead on what was once Hart Lane. According to the

On June 23, 1997, developer William McKee purchased the 315-acre Harry H. Straus Park from P.H. Glatfelter, then-owner of the old Ecusta/Olin paper factory, for

History can sometimes be difficult to pin down, with contradictory sources. Previous research did not indicate that enslaved people were present on the land that