There are more than 100 cemeteries scattered throughout Transylvania County.  These range from small family plots to abandoned cemeteries to church cemeteries to public cemeteries.

Ecusta property, before construction “Paper Plant To Locate on Davidson River Site” was the banner headline for the May 5, 1938 Transylvania Times.  According to

In the early 1900s Pisgah Forest had businesses located on both sides of the Davidson River.  On the west side Louis Carr built a saw

The little crossroads community of Pisgah Forest officially came into existed in December 1906 when a post office was opened there.  Pisgah Forest was actually

Bridge #54 at the mouth of Looking Glass Creek The North Carolina Department of Transportation website lists four historic bridge in Transylvania County.  All four

People don’t often think about bridges as a part of our history but in a county with so many streams, creeks and rivers they play

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