Last week Picturing the Past covered local events leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote in 1920. 

During 2020 the nation is celebrating the centennial of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.  Both before and after the momentous occasion

Weilt’s One Price Cash Store was located between the Aethelwold and Crary Hotels on East Main.  This cropped photo is from a larger photograph of

Waightstill Avery Gash was a son of Leander and Margaret Gash, making him a great-great grandson of Waightstill Avery.  Avery had been a lawyer and

As the population of Brevard grew in the early 1900s the town expanded beyond the original 50 acres bordered by Probart, Morgan, Rice and England

It has been nearly 30 years since an architectural survey of Transylvania County was conducted.  Structures had to retain their architectural and historical integrity and

In 1935 the W.P.A., Works Progress Administration, was established to provide jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression.  Most people are familiar

This week’s Picturing the Past article completes a series on the 2019 survey of African American heritage resources in Transylvania County by looking at sites

When Transylvania County undertook an architectural survey in 1990-1991 it included structures built from 1820-1941.  Only a small number of buildings within the African American

During 2019 a project was undertaken to survey the African American heritage related resources of Brevard and Transylvania County.  Retired Western Kentucky University Folk Studies