This close up picture of the Haywood County Courthouse in Waynesville, N.C., shows the tower which distinguished the building as a town landmark. The Courthouse dated from 1884 and served the county until a new building was constructed in 1931 to…
The booklet titled 'Woman's Christian Temperance Union Southern Assembly and School of Methods, Waynesville, N.C., 1892' carried this picture of the Haywood White Sulphur Springs Hotel. The earliest part of the building had been a home constructed…
The October 16, 1928, edition of 'The Ruralite' (Sylva, N.C.) featured an article about the Royle-Pilkington Company, a textile manufacturing plant, entitled 'Hazelwood Plant To Employ Three Hundred.' Hazelwood, North Carolina was an incorporated…
This page from the late 1920s brochure for the 'Hotel Gordon'� has a line-drawing illustration of the hotel, which was located in Waynesville, North Carolina. Automobiles are shown in the drawing parked in front of the hotel and the brochure notes…
An article titled 'Hotel Gordon to Open July 6th'� from the June 27, 1929, issue of the 'Mountaineer' (Waynesville, North Carolina) announced plans for dances accompanied by an orchestra at two of Waynesville's hotels, the Hotel Gordon and Hotel…
In May 1913 the voters in Jackson County, N.C., approved a measure to relocate the county seat from Webster to Sylva. While the town of Webster had been designated as the original county seat in the early 1850s, Sylva had benefited from the arrival…
By the time this postcard view of the Jarrett Springs Hotel in Dillsboro, N.C., was mailed in 1910, the hotel was already twenty-five years old. The property opened in 1884 as the Mount Beulah Hotel and was conveniently located along the Murphy…
The cover of the 1933 program of 'The Junaluskan,' published by the Lake Junaluska Methodist Church of Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, features a view of the lake in the foreground and mountains in the distance. The 1933 program listed not only…
The cover of the 1932 program of 'The Junaluskan,' published by the Lake Junaluska Methodist Church of Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, features an aerial view of the lake. The Lake Junaluska Methodist Church Assembly offered its guests a wide…
This illustration from Wilbur G. Zeigler and Ben S. Grosscup's late 19th-century travel narrative, 'Heart of the Alleghanies,'� is captioned 'The Junaluskas' (p. 316). In recounting a trip to Waynesville, in Haywood County, N.C., the authors…