Barn, photo courtesy of Dan Bennett. The barn is the only remaining outbuilding on the farm that Benjamin Allison, William Deaver and Carl & Mae

William Deaver was born September 9, 1794.  As a teenager he was apprenticed to his grandfather, Andrew Miller, after the death of his parents.  He

Sketch of the west facing side of Benjamin Allison’s home. The Allison-Deaver House reflects the lives of two men and two builders—Benjamin Allison and William

“Old Deaver House” purchased by the Transylvania County Historical Society in 1987. In 1987 the “Old Deaver House” was to be torn down to make

On August 1, 1783 both James Davidson and Benjamin Davidson applied to the State of North Carolina for land along the French Broad River.  The

Transylvania County’s Methodist churches got their start by holding services in homes or shared meeting houses.  In remote areas, like the mountains of Western North

Postcard— Trout fishing below White Water Falls  in the beautiful Sapphire section of North Carolina. Trout fishing as a sport in Western North Carolina dates

When Andrew Jackson Lyday attended medical school at the Medical College of Charleston in the mid-1840s he had no idea that the Lyday name would

By 1939 Transylvania County was well on its way to recovering from the Great Depression.  Harry Straus was constructing Ecusta which would bring jobs and

Dr. Robert Stokes purchased property on the French Broad River in the Dunn’s Rock area in May 1920 with the intent of opening the first