The Cedar Mountain area has been home to numerous camps through the years. The earliest mention of Cedar Mountain campers in the Sylvan Valley News

Camp Brevard activities with 1—Mrs. H.E. Lassiter, 2—Mrs. Luella Gibson Joiner. In 1921 Mrs. Luella Gibson Joiner of Alabama started Camp Brevard for girls.  The

Tourism in Transylvania County in the early 20th century increased dramatically when the railroad reached Brevard and then Lake Toxaway.  People from the lowlands and

 The Citizens Telephone Company was started in 1921 by a group of Brevard businessmen.  Their main objectives were to provide electric telephone and telegraph lines,

Early moving or motion picture shows were first presented in Brevard in 1907 by W.M. Bradley and Company.  Bradley offered moving pictures during the summer

For many years Patterson’s and Plummer’s Department Stores were fixtures on West Main Street in downtown Brevard. Plummer’s Department Store on West Main, 1941  Henry

South Broad St., early 1920s. Comparing an early 1920s photograph of the buildings on the west side of South Broad St. with photos from 1940,

The Aethelwold Hotel shortly after completion.  Around 1900 John McMinn built the Aethelwold Hotel on the corner of Main and Broad streets in the center

Over the next several weeks Picturing the Past will look at downtown Brevard—its development, what’s changed, and what hasn’t.  When the town was originally laid

A & P Food Stores, South Broad St. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company began in 1859 as tea and coffee stores in New