Examples of documents in the Silversteen Family Collection  include sheet music with words by Adelaide Van Wey and music by Brevard native, Donald Lee Moore. Picturing the

News stands are another piece of a by-gone era.  Throughout the early and mid-1900s most business districts had at least one news stand.  These small

In May 1921 it was announced that Red Bus Line would operate between Brevard, Hendersonville, and Asheville.  They offered four trips daily making it possible

An article in the June 11, 1920 Brevard News announced, “The Brevard Taxi Line which is a motor transportation service for carrying anyone anywhere they

Dill’s Esso Station on the Asheville Highway, 1965.  The service bays are the home of White Squirrel Car Wash today.  When the first motorized vehicles

Over the past two weeks Picturing the Past has looked at two of Transylvania’s automobile dealerships.  Whitmire Motor operated in the 1920s and McCrary Auto

Roland Whitmire, W.L. Couch, and Rush Whitmire in the Whitmire Motor show room. In the 1920s Roland and Rush Whitmire operated Whitmire Motor Company in

McCrary Tire Service located on Caldwell Street behind the Clayton Hotel, 1933-1939. The McCrary family spend nearly 70 years working in the automobile industry in

Transylvania Times modern facility on North Broad St., 1966. In 1966 The Transylvania Times renovated the former McCrary Auto on N. Broad St. for their

A three-part Palladian window on the stair landing allows for plenty of light in Silvermont’s large entrance hall. The Silvermont mansion on East Main Street