Etowah NC Heritage
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    • Henderson County, est 1838
    • Maps
    • Etowah History - Research To Date
    • Timeline
    • 1889 Money, then Etowah
    • Etowah - Creek / Muskogee
    • How Etowah Got Its Name
    • Postmasters 1889 - 1968
    • Etowah Train Depot - 1895 >
      • Trains of Etowah
    • The Railroad - Hendersonville to Toxaway
  • - II -
    • 1900 U.S. Census
    • Etowah Grange #984 - 1937 >
      • Grange - 25th Anniversary 1937-1962
      • Grange Quilt - 1953
    • 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
  • - III -
    • Sheriff Robert Thomas
    • Civil War Union Monument
    • Orr Cabin Homeplace - early 1800s
    • Mountain Lily - 1881
    • Welsh Colony 1880s
    • Grist Mills
    • Shape Note Traditions
  • - IV -
    • Community Fairs 1938-1941, 1950s
    • Stores of Early Etowah
    • McKinna General Store
    • "Etowah Brick" Moland-Drysdale Corp. - 1923
    • Calx Mfg. Company - 1919
    • Camp Peep-Out - 1935
    • More Business Ads 1938 - 1960+
  • - V -
    • 1952 - Hatheway Floral Company
    • 1954 - Etowah Lions Club, Park & More
    • 1960s - Growing & Changing
    • 1964 - Etowah / Horse Shoe Fire & Rescue
    • 1966 - Water & Sewer System, Tower
    • 1966 - Etowah Riding Club
    • 1982 - A Library Comes to Etowah
  • PEOPLE & PLACES
    • Native American
    • French Broad River & Valley Views
    • Virtual Tour of Selected Historic Places
    • Memorabilia
    • Places, Early Homes, Other
    • People - early times
    • People - later times
    • People - Gash Family descendants
    • Veterans
  • 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"
  • SPECIAL
    • History Displays in Etowah & Library Notebooks
    • Etowah Heritage Day 2019 - 130 Years
    • Etowah Treasures Exhibit, Sept/Oct 2019
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    • Home
    • - I - >
      • Henderson County, est 1838
      • Maps
      • Etowah History - Research To Date
      • Timeline
      • 1889 Money, then Etowah
      • Etowah - Creek / Muskogee
      • How Etowah Got Its Name
      • Postmasters 1889 - 1968
      • Etowah Train Depot - 1895 >
        • Trains of Etowah
      • The Railroad - Hendersonville to Toxaway
    • - II - >
      • 1900 U.S. Census
      • Etowah Grange #984 - 1937 >
        • Grange - 25th Anniversary 1937-1962
        • Grange Quilt - 1953
      • 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
    • - III - >
      • Sheriff Robert Thomas
      • Civil War Union Monument
      • Orr Cabin Homeplace - early 1800s
      • Mountain Lily - 1881
      • Welsh Colony 1880s
      • Grist Mills
      • Shape Note Traditions
    • - IV - >
      • Community Fairs 1938-1941, 1950s
      • Stores of Early Etowah
      • McKinna General Store
      • "Etowah Brick" Moland-Drysdale Corp. - 1923
      • Calx Mfg. Company - 1919
      • Camp Peep-Out - 1935
      • More Business Ads 1938 - 1960+
    • - V - >
      • 1952 - Hatheway Floral Company
      • 1954 - Etowah Lions Club, Park & More
      • 1960s - Growing & Changing
      • 1964 - Etowah / Horse Shoe Fire & Rescue
      • 1966 - Water & Sewer System, Tower
      • 1966 - Etowah Riding Club
      • 1982 - A Library Comes to Etowah
    • PEOPLE & PLACES >
      • Native American
      • French Broad River & Valley Views
      • Virtual Tour of Selected Historic Places
      • Memorabilia
      • Places, Early Homes, Other
      • People - early times
      • People - later times
      • People - Gash Family descendants
      • Veterans
    • 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"
    • SPECIAL >
      • History Displays in Etowah & Library Notebooks
      • Etowah Heritage Day 2019 - 130 Years
      • Etowah Treasures Exhibit, Sept/Oct 2019
    • About
  • Home
  • About
- I -
  • Henderson County, est 1838
  • Maps
  • Etowah History - Research To Date
  • Timeline
  • 1889 Money, then Etowah
  • Etowah - Creek / Muskogee
  • How Etowah Got Its Name
  • Postmasters 1889 - 1968
  • The Railroad - Hendersonville to Toxaway
Etowah Train Depot - 1895
  • Etowah Train Depot - 1895
  • Trains of Etowah
- II -
  • 1900 U.S. Census
  • Farms of Early Etowah
  • Schools of Nearby Communities
  • Historic Churches
  • Historic Cemeteries
Etowah Grange #984 - 1937
  • Etowah Grange #984 - 1937
  • Grange - 25th Anniversary 1937-1962
  • Grange Quilt - 1953
Historic Etowah High School 1928 - 1960
  • 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
  • Historic Schools 1800s - 1928
  • Etowah Institute 1911
Thomas-Fletcher Cemetery
  • Thomas-Fletcher Cemetery
  • Adopt-A-Cemetery: Thomas-Fletcher
- III -
  • Sheriff Robert Thomas
  • Civil War Union Monument
  • Orr Cabin Homeplace - early 1800s
  • Mountain Lily - 1881
  • Welsh Colony 1880s
  • Grist Mills
  • Shape Note Traditions
- IV -
  • Community Fairs 1938-1941, 1950s
  • Stores of Early Etowah
  • McKinna General Store
  • "Etowah Brick" Moland-Drysdale Corp. - 1923
  • Calx Mfg. Company - 1919
  • Camp Peep-Out - 1935
  • More Business Ads 1938 - 1960+
- V -
  • 1952 - Hatheway Floral Company
  • 1954 - Etowah Lions Club, Park & More
  • 1960s - Growing & Changing
  • 1964 - Etowah / Horse Shoe Fire & Rescue
  • 1966 - Water & Sewer System, Tower
  • 1966 - Etowah Riding Club
  • 1982 - A Library Comes to Etowah
PEOPLE & PLACES
  • Native American
  • French Broad River & Valley Views
  • Virtual Tour of Selected Historic Places
  • Memorabilia
  • Places, Early Homes, Other
  • People - early times
  • People - later times
  • People - Gash Family descendants
  • Veterans
Stories
  • 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"
SPECIAL
  • History Displays in Etowah & Library Notebooks
  • Etowah Heritage Day 2019 - 130 Years
  • Etowah Treasures Exhibit, Sept/Oct 2019

Stories & Recollections of Etowah . . .

Image description
Read a one page excerpt from
Frank L. FitzSimon's story,
"Matilda's Folly"
in his book,  From the Banks of the Oklawaha, Vol. II, 1977