
Cannon Brought Medicine to Balsam Grove
Edward Gaine Cannon was born in the Calvert community of Transylvania County in 1900 to James and Anna Whitmire Cannon. James Cannon was a physician
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Edward Gaine Cannon was born in the Calvert community of Transylvania County in 1900 to James and Anna Whitmire Cannon. James Cannon was a physician

On this day in North Carolina History, “The first train across the Blue Ridge arrives at Asheville, ending the city’s isolation and igniting a tourist

“North Carolina at Play: Health and Leisure in Our State” Archives Month is an annual observance of the agencies and people responsible for maintaining and

Settlers began moving into the valleys and mountains along the North Fork of the French Broad River in the early 1800s. Among the early settlers

Quebec School, before taxes The early families scattered throughout the mountains and valleys to the west of Rosman provided for the education of their children

For over a hundred years black children in Transylvania County attended separate schools from white children. With limited resources the dedicated teachers of French Broad,

Education has always been a strong part of the African American community in Transylvania County. Originally, African American children attended schools near the communities where

“Miss Daisy” Daisy Norton, known by generations of library users as “Miss Daisy” died on September 7, 1964. Miss Daisy was a fixture at the

From the late 1930s through the late 1950s Transylvania County began consolidating schools. The smaller rural schools that had been scattered throughout the county were
On this day in North Carolina History, “The nation’s first forestry school, directed by German immigrant Carl Schenck, opens at George W. Vanderbilt’s Biltmore Forest.”
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