The first cars began to appear in Transylvania County around 1907 when it was noted that Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt visited the Pink Beds by automobile.  In February 1909, the

H.P. (Henry Peck) Clarke was from a prominent Bridgeport, Connecticut family.  In his late twenties, Clarke bought a large property outside of Columbia, South Carolina, known as Goodwill Plantation, in

According to “North Carolina Atlas” by Jule B. Warren and L. Pole Denmark published in 1952 “North Carolina ranked fourth in the nation in the value of farm crops, not

George Weston was raised in Buncombe County and served as Biltmore Estate’s superintendent of farms in the late 1800s and early 1900s before moving to New York for several years. 

T.C. Henderson returned to Transylvania County to serve as Superintendent of Schools for a second time in 1923.  In a 1924 report on the state of Transylvania County schools Henderson

Thomas Calhoun Henderson was born October 9, 1871 to George and Millie Henderson.  Like his younger brother Charlie, who was featured in last week’s Picturing the Past article, T.C. received

Charles Washington Henderson, born November 7, 1873, was the eighth of George and Millie Henderson’s eleven children.  The Henderson family had moved from Macon County into the old Tom Cantrell

Some of the photographs in the North Carolina Room Collection at the Transylvania County Library have little information to identify the people, event or location.  Such was the case for

Beginning in the mid-19th century fire insurance companies in the United States used detailed maps to determine liability risks.  The Sanborn Map Company quickly became the leader in the field