BANNER ELK — Grandfather Home for Children looks markedly different from just a few months ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are current…
LINVILLE — For the first time in 65 years, MacRae Meadows, home of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, sat empty during the second weeken…
The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial located in Washington, D.C., is our nation’s monument to law enforcement officers who have died…
HIGH COUNTRY — In a packed conference room at the Blowing Rock Art and History Museum on Jan. 23, the life and legacy of the photographer and …
Members of the Avery County Historical Society and Museum took a trip to Morganton last month as part of a program to learn more of Avery Coun…
When the Avery County Historical Society was first formed in 1976, one of its first projects was a book entitled “Avery County Heritage.” This…
Former Avery County resident David Ramseur was awarded the University of North Carolina-Asheville’s highest alumni honor for “extraordinary ac…
BEECH MOUNTAIN — Visitors to the newly-expanded Beech Mountain History Museum can now see a collection of photographs by early local farmer an…
Like most of the country, Avery County was slowing pulling itself out of the Great Depression. An Asheville newspaper noted that there was a n…
Banner Elk’s Shepherd Monroe Dugger, affectionately known as the “wandering Bard of the Balsams,” released his final book in 1932: “War Trails…
January 1932 started off with the Avery County Board of Education members D.W. Haga, J.M. Dearmin and Don Farthing being slapped with a restra…
The United States entered 1931 still gripped by the Great Depression. The depression continued to be felt locally. For example, the staff at t…
There were two important events in 1930 that were of nationwide importance, and played a large part in Avery County history as well: the Great…
In September 1930, the Asheville Citizen Times published a short history of the early work of the Red Cross in Avery County. During World War …
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The years of 1928 and 1929 were tumultuous years in United States history. There was a presidential election in November 1928, in which Herber…
Mountain Times Publications staff publish a series of articles to commemorate National Vietnam War Veterans Day on March 29, 2018.
News from the area reaching the outside world was sparse in 1926. The Watauga Democrat reported in February that the old Cranberry Inn was des…
Last issue we looked at the years 1923 and 1924 in Avery County. As 1925 dawned, the United States was faced with changing attitudes regarding…
CROSSNORE — Strewn across the landscape of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, historical markers dot the landscape, sharing short v…
In our last column, we looked at one event from 1923: the death of Edgar Tufts. This week, we will be continuing with 1923 and 1924.
For the past few weeks, we have focused on various years of Avery County history. Last issue was the years of 1921-1922. In this column, we ar…
HIGH COUNTRY — It’s no mystery that ancient Native American arrowheads are extremely rare and valuable items — but a popular roadside attracti…
Avery County celebrated its first decade in February 1921. The town of Newland had grown up out of an old field, literally. In some areas, the…
Happy New Year! We pick up our look at Avery County through the decades in the year 1920. Avery County was just shy of being 10 years old. On …
This week, we finish the 1910s with a look at 1919.
Like most of the United States, Avery County continued to have its ups and downs over the next two years. Discussion of world events made its …
As we continue our look into Avery County’s past, we are going to concentrate on the year 1916. There was much going on, not only in Avery Cou…
This week, we continue our timeline look at events in Avery County, concentrating on the years of 1914 and 1915.
