Etowah NC Heritage
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  • 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
    • Formation of Henderson County, est 1838
    • 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
HERITAGE  MEMORABILIA  COLLECTION

Mementos, objects of everyday life, & special things that shine a light on days gone by.

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Oil Lantern circa 1919. Courtesy of Argyle Gash.
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According to family records, this lantern was carried by James Leander Gash when he delivered mail by horse and buggy.  See, Photo Gallery-People

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glass & top are embossed with the words
"Southern RY." 

top reads:
THE ADAMS & WESTLAKE CO. ADLAKE"    RELIABLE
NEW YORK  CHICAGO  PHILA.

Patent dates around edge:  Patented Sept. 21, 1897, 1908, 1909, 1912, 1919.


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Hook Rug made by Etowah native Dessie Shelton Norton (1917 - 2008) in the 1970s.

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1952 Etowah Grange Quilt  -  folded in half, butter pale yellow & black with calico flower.  See more about the Quilt.

A few items belonging to
Pink Margaret Gash
 (1876 - 1968)
"When Cupid strings his magic bow
and deftly aims the fatal dart,
Not all the power of gods or men
Can heal the torn or wounded
heart;
Your love alone can ease my pain
And to my heart
bring peace again."

Valentine addressed to
Miss Pink M Gash, Money NC

​Courtesy of Argyle Gash.
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Pink Gash's childhood Bible, published 1894
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Holy Bible, published 1894 American Bible Society, belonged to Pink Gash (1876 - 1968).  Possibly given to her as a young teen or earlier.  The inside cover has the following note in pencil:

"Miss Pink Gash
her book presented 
by her s. s. Teacher"

A slip of paper found inside reads:  "The word girl occurs only once in the bible, the third chapter & third verse of Joel."

On the other side, the paper reads:  "Miss Pink Gash
I present this bibl[e] as a premium for her good lessons.  good behavior and good Attendance _____"

Contribution to the Etowah Heritage Archives - by Glenda Maxwell Simpson.  The Bible was found in the estate of Glenda's mother, Alice Helen Crook Maxwell, who most likely found it at a yard sale.

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Fabric samples stapled to small 3x2 cards from the National Dry Goods Sales Co.. Pink would carry these and many more samples in her car when she went on sales calls. The card from Pink's Service Manager states her sales for six months in 1957 were $384.65. Imagine . . . cotton at 69 cents and 98 cents per yard in 1957.

From Pink's obituary:

"Miss Gash was a native of Bartow County, Ga., had lived in Henderson County for the past 88 years and was a member of the First Methodist Church of Hendersonville for 73 years.

She attended Judson College of Hendersonville, was a graduate of the Georgia and Alabama Business College of Macon, Ga., and she taught public school in Buncombe County for five years.  She was also a traveling saleswoman for the National Drygoods Co. of New York City for 34 years."

Miss Pink sold dry goods, produce from her garden, and flowers all over Transylvania and Henderson Counties.
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Pink Margaret Gash and her cow "Tuff." Courtesy of Argyle Gash.

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Wheel from an old hay rake, Dalton/Parkinson.
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Arm & Hammer Almanac 1921
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Dasher style butter churn used by Opal's mother, Harriett Allison Dill Dalton. Courtesy of Opal Parkinson (1924 - 2016 ).
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Another style of butter churn. Courtesy of Argyle Gash.

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WWII Ration Book and stamps. Courtesy of Opal Parkinson.
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Three quilts commemorating "The Haunted Mill of Willow Creek"
by local resident Mary Lee Berry
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1954 North Carolina P T A and Etowah High School P T A Cookbook
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1989 Etowah High School Alumni and Teachers Cookbook
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Blantyre Baptist Church
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Big Willow Community Club 1983
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Big Willow Community Club 2001
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Ladies Auxiliary E HS VRFD 2001
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Etowah Baptist Church 2007

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The Old Hayrake on Brickyard Road

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  • 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
    • Formation of Henderson County, est 1838
    • 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