This week’s Picturing the Past photograph features Reid Furniture Company and was taken in 1959. The building where Reid’s was located at the time looks

Over the last two weeks Picturing the Past has featured businesses that were located at 55 E. Main during a portion of their existence—B&B Feed

Grover’s Office Supply was a well-known, long running business in downtown Brevard before it was sold to Hoyle Office Solution in 2016.  The business had

Most people who have lived in Transylvania County for over twenty years are familiar with B&B Feed & Seed, formerly located on Gaston Street.  However

Over the next few weeks Picturing the Past will take a closer look at some photographs from the collection in the Local History Room at

Thanksgiving in the United States traces its origin to 1621 when the Pilgrims at Plymouth celebrated a successful fall harvest. For more than 200 years

On November 11, 1918 “engines whistled, church bells rang, the fire bell clanged, guns and pistols were fired, even firecrackers appeared from somewhere and added

During World War I African American soldiers in the U.S. military faced an enormous degree of discrimination from the draft process throughout their service.  They

Nathaniel Hall was born in Brevard to D.C. and Etta Gash Hall on January 17, 1916. Hall was educated at Rosenwald School. He moved to

Lewis Redmond—moonshiner, murderer, notorious outlaw or folk hero? In “King of the Moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction” historian Bruce Stewart brings together