By Jim Buchanan
70 years ago - March 30, 1950
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By Jim Buchanan
70 years ago - March 9, 1950
Editor’s Note: Except as otherwise indicated, information in this installment comes from Sylva Herald articles published Nov. 13, 2003; Nov. 7, 2002; and March 21, 2002.
70 years ago - March 2, 1950
The next Jackson County Genealogical Society program is titled “Main Street Then and Now,” and will offer a photographic tour of Sylva’s downtown through the years. Nick Breedlove and Lynn Hotaling, authors of “Jackson County Then and Now,” will present the program at the group’s next meetin…
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
70 years ago - March 30, 1950
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020
By Jim Buchanan
70 years ago - March 9, 1950
Wednesday, March 04, 2020
Editor’s Note: Except as otherwise indicated, information in this installment comes from Sylva Herald articles published Nov. 13, 2003; Nov. 7, 2002; and March 21, 2002.
70 years ago - March 2, 1950
The next Jackson County Genealogical Society program is titled “Main Street Then and Now,” and will offer a photographic tour of Sylva’s downtown through the years. Nick Breedlove and Lynn Hotaling, authors of “Jackson County Then and Now,” will present the program at the group’s next meetin…
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
70 years ago - Feb. 23, 1950
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
By Jim Buchanan
70 years ago - Feb. 16, 1950
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Around a century ago, in the steep slopes of the Appalachian Mountains, health care was a foreign luxury. People relied on the elements, local apothecaries who made salves and other makeshift medicines out of plants and other materials that could be cultivated from the earth, and wives’ tale…
Wednesday, February 05, 2020
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70 years ago - Feb. 2, 1950
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70 years ago - Jan. 26, 1950
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
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70 years ago - Jan. 10, 1950
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
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70 years ago - Jan. 12, 1950
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Wednesday, January 08, 2020
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70 years ago - Jan. 12, 1950
Wednesday, January 01, 2020
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70 years ago - Jan. 5, 1950
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
By Jim Buchanan
By Geoff Cantrell
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
By Jim Buchanan
70 years ago - Dec. 15, 1949
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
The History of Jackson County Sesquicentennial Edition notes that copper mining has the oldest recorded history in the county, going back to Welshman David Davies.
By Beth Lawrence
Wednesday, December 04, 2019
By Steve Ham
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
By Jim Buchanan
Great Smoky Mountains Association is now offering its 2020 Great Smoky Mountains National Park wall calendar, a look back in time through the lenses of gifted Smokies photographers from the pre- and early-park eras. Featuring historic photos carefully selected from park and regional archives…
This week in local history:
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
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70 years ago - Nov. 10, 1949
Wednesday, November 06, 2019
By Jim Buchanan
Since 2015, more than 50 Smoky Mountain High School students have been preserving the voices of the community through the “Mountain People, Mountain Lives” oral history project.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
First choice for Parkway route was in Tennessee, not WNC.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
By Jim Buchanan
The Western North Carolina Historical Association has announced the 64th winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, an annual recognition of distinction for qualifying works of fiction, nonfiction, drama or poetry, is “Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography,” by George Ellison a…
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