Etowah NC Heritage
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  • SPECIAL
    • Etowah Heritage Day 1889 - 2019
    • Etowah Treasures Exhibit, Sept/Oct 2019
    • Virtual Tour of Selected Historic Places
    • History Displays in Etowah & Library Notebooks
  • TIMELINE/MAPS
    • Timeline 1700 to present
    • Maps
    • Maps - 1838 Formation of Henderson County
  • PHOTOS
    • Memorabilia
    • Places, Early Homes, Other
    • French Broad River & Valley Views
    • People - early times
    • People - post 1950
    • People - Gash Family descendants
    • Veterans
  • HIST. I
    • Etowah History Notes - Research To Date
    • 1889 Money, then Etowah
    • 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 Schools 1800s - 1928 >
      • Historic Etowah High School 1928 - 1960
      • Little Chief - Gleanings from
      • Etowah High School - Memorial Plaque 2014 - HCEHI
      • Etowah Institute 1911
      • Schools of Nearby Communities
    • Historic Churches
    • Historic Cemeteries
    • 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
    • Businesses - Early to mid-1900's
    • "Etowah Brick" Moland-Drysdale Corp. - 1923
    • Camp Peep-Out - 1935
    • Etowah Grange #984 - 1937 >
      • Grange - 25th Anniversary 1937-1962
      • Grange Quilt - 1953
  • 1950 +
    • 1952 - Hatheway Floral Company
    • 1954 - Etowah Lions Club
    • 1960s - Growing & Changing
    • 1964 - Etowah / Horse Shoe Volunteer Fire
    • 1966 - Water 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
VIRTUAL TOUR OF SELECTED HISTORIC PLACES

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OAK FOREST CEMETERY
Est. 1876 - 1st burial
 
& OAK FOREST SCHOOL
1874  - 1904
(across street from cemetery)
 
Etowah School Road

 


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SITE OF FORMER TRAIN DEPOT
 
1895  - 1960s (exact year unknown)
 
Old 64 & Etowah School Rd,
next to Chrisman’s Garage
 

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THOMAS - FLETCHER CEMETERY
Est. 1865
 
Burial of Robert Thomas (1806 - 1865)
1st Appointed Sheriff of Henderson County
Term of office:  1839-1844
Murdered April 22, 1865 on nearby homeplace
 
Pleasant Grove Road

 
 


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ETOWAH GRANGE #984
1937 — 1960s
 
Today, WCCA Etowah Children’s Center
233 Brickyard Road
Building expanded in early 1990s,  former library.

 


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Monument - Union Veterans of the Civil War
Est. 1985, Families of Henderson & Transylvania Counties
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Corner of parking lot
WCCA Etowah Children’s Center
233 Brickyard Road

 


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“THE BRICKYARD”
Moland-Drysdale Corp.
1923  - 1955
 
Today,
Etowah Valley Golf & Resort