This week’s Picturing the Past article comes from the Digital North Carolina Blog by the staff of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center which features highlights from the collections at

In the 1940s Highway 64 (today Old Hendersonville Hwy) was the main route into Brevard from the east.  The road was used by visitors traveling into town, locals traveling to

It’s Fair time!  All across the country fairs are held each autumn.  Whether it is a small county fair or large state fair, these events bring people together to celebrate

In 1926 the Brevard Aircraft Corporation was created to engage in commercial flying, including aerial photography, surveys, maps, advertising and smoke writing.  They also planned to sell airplanes and operate

Last week Picturing the Past featured the businesses of James Bromfield.  Bromfield was born on May 7, 1877 in Kentucky.  He came to Brevard as a young man and by

James Bromfield moved to Brevard in 1906.  He purchased a lot near the depot to establish a coal and wood yard to supply fuel to local customers.  In 1908 he

In 1888, Thomas and Wait Gash sold 21.3 acres from the estate of their parents, Leander Sams and Margaret Avery Gash, to Mrs. Reba W. Boardman for $1500.  The property

Alvin and Frances Jones opened Quality Fabric at 37 East Main St. in Brevard in Spring 1957.  They carried a variety of fabrics—broadcloth, chambrays, cottons, dimity, percales, printed lawn, seersucker

In the early 1960s unemployment of young people in the U.S. was twice that of older adults.  In response, the Kennedy Administration designed a program, known as Job Corps, offering

This week’s Picturing the Past article is from a July 24, 1969 Transylvania Times story titled, “Rosman Tracking Station Supports The Apollo XI In Indirect, Important Way.”  Construction of the