Pisgah Builders’ Supply, Inc. announced their formal opening in Pisgah Forest on February 28, 1946.  The business carried a wide range of supplies including lumber, wall board, brick, cement, shingles,

In the early 1900s most small communities had a general merchandise store.  On the Hendersonville Rd. about 2.5 miles from downtown Brevard the Deaver-Patton Company’s store was located at the

This week’s Picturing the Past photographs feature the Pisgah Forest Post Office in the 1940s and the current facility.  Pisgah Forest first established a post office in December 1906.  Although

Today Brevard has numerous fast food franchises along the Asheville Highway but in the 1950s there were few businesses of any type beyond Brevard College.  There were a number of

The Canteen Café, a long time fixture in downtown Brevard, opened in the summer of 1928 by W.E. “Elzie” Shipman.  Shipman only operated it for a brief time before selling

The young men pictured are identified as Walter Whitmire, Luther Cooper and Tommy Whitmire.  However Tommy Whitmire was only 9-years-old when his brother, Walter died in 1919.   It is more

This week featured photograph is looking south down Broad Street from the intersection of Broad and Main streets.  The signs along the building fronts identify long time Brevard businesses including

This week’s Picturing the Past photograph features Reid Furniture Company and was taken in 1959. The building where Reid’s was located at the time looks different today.  The best clues

Over the last two weeks Picturing the Past has featured businesses that were located at 55 E. Main during a portion of their existence—B&B Feed & Seed from 1928-1940 and

Grover’s Office Supply was a well-known, long running business in downtown Brevard before it was sold to Hoyle Office Solution in 2016.  The business had been located at 372 S.