The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at

In early 1916 Jerome Moltz and his sons began purchasing property in upper Transylvania County with the intention of building a lumber operation and large

When the Toxaway Inn opened in August 1903 tourism brochures boasted that it was, “one of the best equipped and most modern resort hotels to

Macedonia Baptist Church Early settlers in the valleys and mountains in the Gloucester area of what was to become Transylvania County had to travel ten

The Quebec community extends from Quebec Mountain, east of Silversteen Rd, to approximately Reid Road along Highway 64.  In the late 1800s the area was

The 1920s were generally a time of prosperity throughout the United States.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked at 381.17 on September 3, 1929 but

During the Depression, the federal government built over 1,100 post offices throughout the country as part of the New Deal, including at least twelve in

October is Fire Prevention Month.  National Fire Prevention Week is observed during the week in which October 9 falls in commemoration of the Great Chicago