Most people who have lived in Transylvania County for over twenty years are familiar with B&B Feed & Seed, formerly located on Gaston Street.  However did you know that for

Over the next few weeks Picturing the Past will take a closer look at some photographs from the collection in the Local History Room at the Transylvania County Library.  These

Thanksgiving in the United States traces its origin to 1621 when the Pilgrims at Plymouth celebrated a successful fall harvest. For more than 200 years the colonies and states held

On November 11, 1918 “engines whistled, church bells rang, the fire bell clanged, guns and pistols were fired, even firecrackers appeared from somewhere and added to the general din. There

During World War I African American soldiers in the U.S. military faced an enormous degree of discrimination from the draft process throughout their service.  They were trained at separate camps

Nathaniel Hall was born in Brevard to D.C. and Etta Gash Hall on January 17, 1916. Hall was educated at Rosenwald School. He moved to Washington D.C. where he earned

Lewis Redmond—moonshiner, murderer, notorious outlaw or folk hero? In “King of the Moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction” historian Bruce Stewart brings together Redmond’s family history, a sympathetic

In the preface of his book, “Shadows of the Past: Return to Reba”, Ed Comer wrote, “Long before the Connestee Falls community existed, its land held pockets of hardy souls

Transylvania Memories, published in 2011, captured the stories of some of Transylvania County’s older residents through oral interviews. Peggy Hansen recorded their memories of growing up in the 1920s, local

Vera’s father was the caretaker at the Cedar Mountain Hotel not far from Caesar’s Head for the first thirteen years of her life. Vera Jones Stinson was born into a