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    • Etowah Heritage Day 2019 - 130 Years
    • Etowah Treasures Exhibit, Sept/Oct 2019
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    • Maps
    • Memorabilia
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  • HIST. I
    • Timeline
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    • Etowah History Notes - Research To Date
    • 1889 Money, then Etowah
    • Etowah - Creek/Muskogee Translation
    • How Etowah Got Its Name
    • Postmasters 1889 - 1968
    • Etowah Train Depot - 1895 >
      • Trains of Etowah
    • The Railroad - Hendersonville to Toxaway
  • HIST. II
    • 1900 U.S. Census
    • Farms of Early Etowah
    • Historic Etowah High School 1928 - 1960 >
      • 1st Annual 1938 -The Chief
      • Little Chief - Gleanings from
      • Students & Faculty EHS
      • EHS Memorabilia
      • Etowah High School - Memorial Plaque 2014 - HCEHI
    • Historic Schools 1800s - 1928 >
      • Etowah Institute 1911
    • Schools of Nearby Communities
    • Historic Churches
    • Historic Cemeteries >
      • Thomas-Fletcher Cemetery
      • Adopt-A-Cemetery: Thomas-Fletcher
  • HIST. III
    • Sheriff Robert Thomas
    • Civil War Union Monument
    • Orr Cabin Homeplace - early 1800s
    • Mountain Lily - 1881
    • Welsh Colony 1880s
    • Grist Mills
    • Shape Note Traditions
  • HIST. IV
    • Community Fairs 1938-1941, 1950s
    • Stores of Early Etowah
    • McKinna General Store
    • More Business Ads 1938 - 1960+
    • "Etowah Brick" Moland-Drysdale Corp. - 1923
    • Calx Mfg. Company - 1919
    • Camp Peep-Out - 1935
    • Etowah Grange #984 - 1937 >
      • Grange - 25th Anniversary 1937-1962
      • Grange Quilt - 1953
  • HIST. V
    • 1952 - Hatheway Floral Company
    • 1954 - Etowah Lions Club, Park & More
    • 1960s - Growing & Changing
    • 1964 - Etowah / Horse Shoe Volunteer Fire
    • 1966 - Water & Sewer System, Tower
    • 1966 - Etowah Riding Club
    • 1982 - A Library Comes to Etowah
  • Stories
    • Eade Anderson, Reverend
    • Lois Adcock Bayne
    • Emma Louise Curtis Bradley
    • Richard Brown
    • Patricia Bell Cantrell
    • Jerri Whiteside Lambeth
    • Wanda Sumner Love
    • David S. Mallett
    • Opal Dalton Parkinson
    • Jeannie Huggins Revis
    • Glenda Maxwell Simpson
    • Marylin Annette Jones Thomas
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ETOWAH HERITAGE DAY     1889 ~ 2019

October 19, 2019
Etowah Branch Library


The event logo celebrates Etowah's farming heritage, the train that once stopped at the former Etowah Depot on its way from Hendersonville to Toxaway, and the famous "Etowah Brick" produced from 1923 - 1955 at "the Brickyard."  Brick image is from outside wall of the former Grange Hall built in 1959.


In October 2019 a heritage celebration took place commemorating 130 years since the establishment of the first community post office in 1889, known as "Money Post Office."

While this was the first known event celebrating Etowah's historical beginnings, the Etowah Grange #984 and F.F.A. Club of Etowah High School sponsored Community Fairs in the fall of 1938, 1939, 1940 and 1941, celebrating the agriculture accomplishments of this developing  community.  

​The 2019 event featured commemorative giveaways, historical  displays, nine exhibitors, Appalachian live music by Lillian Chase & Company, apple cider & cookies.

A special treat was the arrival of the vintage ​1926 La France "Parade Engine 16" by the generous participation of the Etowah Horse Shoe Fire & Rescue.  Attendees enjoyed climbing aboard and posing with the parade engine which is housed on the ground floor lobby of the EHSF&R building.
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1926 La France Parade Engine arrives at Etowah Heritage Day, driven by Vol. Firefighter Johnny Tate.  Following the parade engine in its remarkable journey from the station is EHS Fire Chief Michael Huggins.
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​EXHIBITORS
  
4H of Henderson County
  Etowah Horse Shoe Fire & Rescue
  Etowah Heritage / 
Henderson County Genealogical
  & Historical Society

  Etowah Lions Club
  Friends of the Library, Henderson Co. Public Library
  Henderson County Heritage Museum
  Historic Johnson Farm Fiber Arts & Heritage Weavers
  Railroad Historian & Author Jerry Ledford
  Transylvania Heritage Museum


PRESENTED BY
  Etowah Heritage / Henderson County Genealogical & Historical Society
  Henderson County Public Library
  Friends of the Henderson County Public Library


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LILLIAN CHASE & COMPANY
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Preserved farm and cabin artifacts from the John & Jane Clayton Orr homeplace:
  • oxen yoke
  • cradle for cutting wheat
  • cabin beam with wooden pegs

​Courtesy of Pat Bell Cantrell
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Additional Farm Display items courtesy of:  Grady Brown, estate/dairy farm of Ott & Alma M. Wells, Mike Williams

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Commemorative giveaways included:
  • A shopping bag imprinted with the event logo and recognizing the many supporting community sponsors
  • A bookmark with highlights of Etowah's history.  Available at the Etowah Branch Library.
  • From Sky Brook Farms dairy, a 1950s unused ice cream carton rescued from an Asheville business attic in 2019.
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THANK YOU, ETOWAH
"Etowah Heritage Day 1889 - 2019" received generous support from many Etowah businesses and organizations.  Thank You, all.

Special "thank you's" are noted for the:
  • Junior Firemen of the EHS Fire&Rescue who kindly assisted with set-up and break-down
  • Presbyterian Church for providing the parking and corner site for the advertising banner
  • Henderson County VIP Sheriff's Deputies who helped attendees cross Brickyard Rd from the parking area at the Presbyterian Church
  • Etowah Heritage volunteers
  • Henderson County Public Library and Friends of the Library for hosting and supporting this first time, community event

  • Home
  • SPECIAL
    • Virtual Tour of Selected Historic Places
    • History Displays in Etowah & Library Notebooks
    • Etowah Heritage Day 2019 - 130 Years
    • Etowah Treasures Exhibit, Sept/Oct 2019
  • PEOPLE & PLACES
    • Maps
    • Memorabilia
    • Places, Early Homes, Other
    • French Broad River & Valley Views
    • People - early times
    • People - later times
    • People - Gash Family descendants
    • Veterans
  • HIST. I
    • Timeline
    • Maps - 1838 Formation of Henderson County
    • Etowah History Notes - Research To Date
    • 1889 Money, then Etowah
    • Etowah - Creek/Muskogee Translation
    • How Etowah Got Its Name
    • Postmasters 1889 - 1968
    • Etowah Train Depot - 1895 >
      • Trains of Etowah
    • The Railroad - Hendersonville to Toxaway
  • HIST. II
    • 1900 U.S. Census
    • Farms of Early Etowah
    • Historic Etowah High School 1928 - 1960 >
      • 1st Annual 1938 -The Chief
      • Little Chief - Gleanings from
      • Students & Faculty EHS
      • EHS Memorabilia
      • Etowah High School - Memorial Plaque 2014 - HCEHI
    • Historic Schools 1800s - 1928 >
      • Etowah Institute 1911
    • Schools of Nearby Communities
    • Historic Churches
    • Historic Cemeteries >
      • Thomas-Fletcher Cemetery
      • Adopt-A-Cemetery: Thomas-Fletcher
  • HIST. III
    • Sheriff Robert Thomas
    • Civil War Union Monument
    • Orr Cabin Homeplace - early 1800s
    • Mountain Lily - 1881
    • Welsh Colony 1880s
    • Grist Mills
    • Shape Note Traditions
  • HIST. IV
    • Community Fairs 1938-1941, 1950s
    • Stores of Early Etowah
    • McKinna General Store
    • More Business Ads 1938 - 1960+
    • "Etowah Brick" Moland-Drysdale Corp. - 1923
    • Calx Mfg. Company - 1919
    • Camp Peep-Out - 1935
    • Etowah Grange #984 - 1937 >
      • Grange - 25th Anniversary 1937-1962
      • Grange Quilt - 1953
  • HIST. V
    • 1952 - Hatheway Floral Company
    • 1954 - Etowah Lions Club, Park & More
    • 1960s - Growing & Changing
    • 1964 - Etowah / Horse Shoe Volunteer Fire
    • 1966 - Water & Sewer System, Tower
    • 1966 - Etowah Riding Club
    • 1982 - A Library Comes to Etowah
  • Stories
    • Eade Anderson, Reverend
    • Lois Adcock Bayne
    • Emma Louise Curtis Bradley
    • Richard Brown
    • Patricia Bell Cantrell
    • Jerri Whiteside Lambeth
    • Wanda Sumner Love
    • David S. Mallett
    • Opal Dalton Parkinson
    • Jeannie Huggins Revis
    • Glenda Maxwell Simpson
    • Marylin Annette Jones Thomas
    • "The Follies" & "Matilda's Folly"
  • About