September 2, 2010
Edition
Sylva, NC
Volume 85, No. 24

Then and Now Archive

2005

• 08/25/2005 - 1940 flood damage, Sylva
• 09/01/2005 - mid-1950s Main Street
• 09/08/2005 - First Baptist Church, Sylva
• 09/15/2005 - 1957 Main Street
• 09/22/2005 - Dillsboro, NC, April 1964
• 09/29/2005 - Courthouse, circa 1950
• 10/06/2005 - Cullowhee Bridge, Aug. 1940
• 10/13/2005 - NC 116 & 441, mid 1920s
• 10/20/2005 - Barker’s Creek Straight, circa 1925
• 10/27/2005 - Post Office, Sylva
• 11/03/2005 - Library, Sylva
• 11/10/2005 - Hall’s Tire
• 11/17/2005 - Carolina Tire Co.
• 11/24/2005 - Wachovia
• 12/01/2005 - Coffee Shop
• 12/15/2005 - Bunny Bread
• 12/22/2005 - Courthouse, 1960s

2006

• 01/12/2006 - All American Awards
• 01/19/2006 - Asheville Highway, circa 1915
• 01/26/2006 - Old Chamber of Commerce
• 02/02/2006 - Sossaman Furniture Co.
• 02/09/2006 - Smallwood Home
• 02/16/2006 - Western Carolina Properties/Gola Ferguson House
• 02/23/2006 - National Guard Armory
• 03/02/2006 - Sylva Train Depot
• 03/09/2006 - CJ Harris Tannery/Jackson Paper Co.
• 03/16/2006 - Main Street Sidewalk, circa 1971
• 03/23/2006 - Cannon Brothers Gas and Oil Co.
• 03/30/2006 - The Sylva Herald / Allison’s
• 04/06/2006 - Cody’s Hot Spot
• 04/13/2006 - Main Street Sidewalk, circa 1960
• 04/20/2006 - Knight’s Store / Balsam
• 04/27/2006 - Sylva Laundry Co.
• 05/04/2006 - Smoky Mountain High School
• 05/11/2006 - West Main Street, Sylva, NC
• 05/18/2006 - Commercial Hotel
• 05/25/2006 - Jackson County Bank
• 06/01/2006 - Sylva Fire Department
• 06/08/2006 - Dillsboro Dam
• 06/15/2006 - Sylva pool
• 06/22/2006 - Allison’s Car Dealership
• 06/29/2006 - Morris House
• 07/06/2006 - F&P Supermarket
• 07/13/2006 - Franklin D. Roosevelt/Main Street
• 07/20/2006 - Courthouse
• 07/27/2006 - Community Building
• 08/03/2006 - Mead Corporation
• 08/10/2006 - Cullowhee Baptist Church
• 08/17/2006 - Jackson County Fairgrounds
• 08/24/2006 - Canada School
• 08/31/2006 - 1940’s flood
• 09/07/2006 - Bear Lake Dam
• 09/14/2006 - Confederate Monument
• 09/21/2006 - Dillsboro circa 1894
• 09/28/2006 - Then - Cemetary
• 10/05/2006 - Then - Pigs
• 10/12/2006 - Glenville Dam
• 10/19/2006 - Highway construction
• 10/26/2006 - View of Mainstreet (pre-Courthouse)
• 11/02/2006 - Kindergarten Class
• 11/09/2006 - Ritz Theater
• 11/16/2006 - Seized moonshine
• 11/23/2006 - Dillsboro/Jarrett House
• 11/30/2006 - Dillsboro/Front Street
• 12/07/2006 - Beauty salon
• 12/14/2006 - Telephone company fishing trip
• 12/21/2006 - Main Street, Chipper Curve junction
• 12/28/2006 - Western Carolina Telephone Co. operators

2007

• 01/04/2007 - Sylva Elementary School 1963
• 01/11/2007 - Cullowhee Fire Department
• 01/18/2007 - Lovedale Baptist Church’s 1950 Bible School
• 01/25/2007 - WCU Track
• 02/01/2007 - Quilting at the Addie Community Building
• 02/08/2007 - Cow
• 02/15/2007 - Sylva Elementary School’s 1936 seventh-grade class
• 02/22/2007 - Mill Street - 1895
• 03/01/2007 - Beta School / Scotts Creek Church 1940s
• 03/08/2007 - Milking a Cow
• 03/15/2007 - Jimmy Crawford’s Birthday Party - 1951
• 03/22/2007 - Log Cabin - 1919
• 03/29/2007 - Frank Massie Home
• 04/05/2007 - Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School Baseball Team
• 04/12/2007 - Downtown Sylva from Sylvan Heights
• 04/19/2007 - Paul Kirk / Sylva Herald
• 04/26/2007 - Jackson County Savings & Loan
• 05/03/2007 - Aerial view of Sylva
• 05/10/2007 - View of Cullowhee from Cox Farm
• 05/17/2007 - Baptism in Scotts Creek
• 05/24/2007 - Wike Reunion
• 05/31/2007 - Allen Fisher delivering Firewood
• 06/07/2007 - Clayton boys’ haircuts at Hedden’s Barber Shop
• 06/14/2007 - Blackwood Lumber Company’s Commissary at East LaPorte
• 06/21/2007 - The Leader
• 06/28/2007 - Lovedale Baptist - Lord’s Acre Plan
• 07/05/2007 - First grade class at the Sylva Depot
• 07/12/2007 - 1929 Buchanan-Deitz reunion
• 07/19/2007 - Plowing on Conleys Creek
• 07/26/2007 - C.J. Harris Tannery and Mead Paper
• 08/02/2007 - Homecoming Court - 1956
• 08/09/2007 - Sylva Swing Time Band
• 08/16/2007 - Jackson County Junior Women’s Club
• 08/23/2007 - Jackson County School Personnel
• 08/30/2007 - Two bridges in Cherokee
• 09/06/2007 - Scotts Creek Elementary School’s 1961 eighth-grade graduation
• 09/13/2007 - Big Tom Woods and his uncle Rufus Woods logging
• 09/20/2007 - Main Street / Shelton Bradsher’s taxi
• 09/27/2007 - Main Street circa 1918
• 10/04/2007 - Dillsboro Dam Flood
• 10/11/2007 - Webster Courthouse - 1932
• 10/18/2007 - Jackson County Courthouse
• 10/25/2007 - Methodist Church at Balsam - 1926
• 11/01/2007 - The family of Estes Bryson
• 11/08/2007 - Election day at the Gay Community Center
• 11/15/2007 - 1945 Sylva High girls basketball team
• 11/22/2007 - Sylva Methodist Church - 1924
• 11/29/2007 - Sylva Boy Scout Troop - 1945
• 12/06/2007 - Cullowhee Rebels basketball team 1962-62
• 12/13/2007 - Mountain View Hotel, Webster
• 12/20/2007 - Sylva Supply
• 12/27/2007 - Cullowhee Baptist Church in 1949

2008

• 01/03/2008 - Pill Rollers bowling team
• 01/10/2008 - Scotts Creek Baptist Church in 1955
• 01/17/2008 - Savannah Elementary School
• 01/24/2008 - Pole Yard Gang
• 01/31/2008 - William Tyler Buchanan homeplace Garage
• 02/07/2008 - Sylva Elementary School’s 1936 seventh-grade class (corrected)
• 02/14/2008 - Sylva Citizens
• 02/21/2008 - 1945 Sylva Central High School football team
• 02/28/2008 - Webster Baptist Church
• 03/06/2008 - The Edwards and Bolick Dry Cleaners
• 03/13/2008 - Jackson County’s Register of Deeds Glenn Hughes
• 03/20/2008 - Main Street from Courthouse fountain - 1957
• 03/27/2008 - Sylva Baptist Chruch - 1924
• 04/03/2008 - Inside of Courthouse - 1938
• 04/10/2008 - Webster’s school
• 04/17/2008 - Construction of N.C. 107
• 04/24/2008 - Barkers Creek Baptist Church
• 05/01/2008 - Louise Buchanan McElhinney and her girlfriends
• 05/08/2008 - Fire at Hospital on Courthouse Hill
• 05/15/2008 - Railroad Avenue around 1925
• 05/22/2008 - Ward Family Birthday Dinner
• 05/29/2008 - The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
• 06/05/2008 - Drew Hooper and Old Woolly
• 06/12/2008 - Horses at Old Bald
• 06/19/2008 - School bus on Cullowhee Mountain Road
• 06/26/2008 - Dr. John R. Brinkley and family
• 07/03/2008 - 1938 graduating class at Webster High School
• 07/10/2008 - Seventh-grade graduation at Sylva Elementary School - 1939
• 07/17/2008 - Cullowhee High School girls basketball team - 1931
• 07/24/2008 - Buchanan Loop in front of the old Tyler Buchanan homeplace
• 07/31/2008 - Sylva Baptist Church
• 08/07/2008 - 1962 Sylva Post Office bowling team
• 08/14/2008 - The old Sylva First Baptist Church
• 08/21/2008 - The Webster School
• 08/28/2008 - N.C. 107 near Cope Creek Road
• 09/11/2008 - Jackson County Journal
• 09/18/2008 - Savannah Elementary School
• 09/25/2008 - Johns Creek School
• 10/02/2008 - Blackwood Lumber Co.
• 10/09/2008 - Fulmer’s 66 Service Station
• 10/16/2008 - 1946-47 Sylva Central High School cheerleaders
• 10/23/2008 - Dan Moore and Gilbert Bess on back street
• 10/30/2008 - Blackwood Lumber Company
• 11/06/2008 - The Zachary house
• 11/13/2008 - The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company (A&P)
• 11/20/2008 - 1977 Little League champion Hardees team
• 11/27/2008 - The Jackson County Courthouse, 1914
• 12/04/2008 - Moody farm house in East LaPorte
• 12/11/2008 - 1949 Sylva High School cheerleaders
• 12/18/2008 - Mashburn brothers and Reece sisters
• 12/25/2008 - East Fork home of Lorenzo Dow and Lillie Ann Hall

2009

• 01/08/2009 - Sylva High School Marching Band
• 01/15/2009 - John Nelson Hunter’s Caney Fork home
• 01/22/2009 - John and Eileen Dillard in 1946
• 01/29/2009 - Judaculla Rock
• 02/05/2009 - Jackson County’s 1951 Centennial celebration
• 02/12/2009 - J.S. Higdon getting a shave
• 02/19/2009 - Road construction, Locust Creek area
• 02/26/2009 - Jackson County’s 1951 Centennial parade
• 03/05/2009 - Crowd at Courthouse during Centennial celebration
• 03/12/2009 - 1895 Main Street
• 03/19/2009 - Chuck Cowan’s store
• 03/26/2009 - Sylva High School 1928 basketball team
• 04/02/2009 - August 1940 flood, Tuckaseigee and Southeastern train
• 04/09/2009 - Docia Garrett’s 1952 kindergarten class
• 04/16/2009 - Farmer’s Federation picnic
• 04/23/2009 - World War II scrap metal drive at Willets school
• 04/30/2009 - The undefeated 1970 Eastgate Pharmacy Little League team
• 05/07/2009 - Webster May Day celebration in 1955
• 05/14/2009 - Confiscated moonshine still
• 05/21/2009 - Jackson County Courthouse - 1969
• 05/28/2009 - Evergreen Trees at Courthouse
• 06/04/2009 - Frank Crawford, Sylva School - 1942
• 06/11/2009 - Fox and dogs in front of Jackson County Bank
• 06/18/2009 - Wilson’s Grocery around 1950
• 06/25/2009 - Willets school - 1909
• 07/02/2009 - Simpson Chevrolet’s 1968 Little League champions
• 07/09/2009 - Jackson County Fairgrounds
• 07/16/2009 - Thrif-Tee Discount Store
• 07/30/2009 - The Sylva band
• 08/06/2009 - Turpin family gathering
• 08/13/2009 - Sylva baseball team - 1930
• 08/20/2009 - Hampton Barnes pumps gas
• 08/27/2009 - Franklin D. Roosevelt at Newfound Gap - 1940
• 09/03/2009 - Aftermath in Cullowhee of the 1940 Flood
• 09/10/2009 - Sylva Boy Scout Troop in 1949
• 09/24/2009 - Sylva flood of 1904
• 10/01/2009 - Thomas Clingman Ledbetter’s blacksmith shop 1902
• 10/08/2009 - Stillwell Science Building
• 10/15/2009 - WCU’s Madison Building
• 10/22/2009 - J.S. Higdon’s Ford Garage
• 10/29/2009 - Martha and Gordon Monteith’s home
• 11/05/2009 - WCU Stillwell Science Building and Hunter Library
• 11/12/2009 - The Sylva Herald’s Nov. 8, 1944, edition
• 11/19/2009 - Sylva’s Main Street - 1930s
• 11/26/2009 - Moses Creek Baptist Church - 1941
• 12/03/2009 - Main Street Postcard - 1940s
• 12/10/2009 - Henry Barnes of Trout Creek community
• 12/17/2009 - Naomi Ashe and Pearl Middleton at Western Carolina University

2010

• 01/07/2010 - Courthouse in winter of 1914-1915
• 01/21/2010 - Sylva Fire Departmen’s members in 1940s
• 01/28/2010 - Sunday school at Shoal Creek Baptist Church in 1937
• 02/11/2010 - Jack and Margie Hall murder case team
• 02/18/2010 - Norton School students in 1905
• 02/25/2010 - Baptism near Dillsboro Dam 1956
• 03/04/2010 - The Coffee Shop in 1939
• 03/18/2010 - Burger Ensley in front of the fire escape at the Beta School
• 03/25/2010 - Armistice Day parade in the 1950s on Main Street
• 04/01/2010 - Courthouse Dome Removal
• 04/08/2010 - Sylva Elementary’s May Day Court in 1957
• 04/15/2010 - Cub Scout Troop in 1947
• 04/22/2010 - Blackwood Lumber, Wayehutta in 1920
• 04/29/2010 - Glenville baseball team, early 50s
• 05/06/2010 - Grist Mill at Wayehutta, 1930
• 05/13/2010 - The Wilson family in 1912
• 05/20/2010 - Samuel Carden’s first oil delivery system, 1920s
• 05/27/2010 - Deitz-Buchanan reunion in 1929
• 06/03/2010 - Andrew and Charlie R. ”Doc” Wilson in front of Wilson’s Store in 1964
• 06/10/2010 - Sylva String Band
• 06/17/2010 - Sylva High School girls basketball team, 1927
• 06/24/2010 - Police chiefs then and now
• 07/01/2010 - Sylva High School girls basketball team, 1927-28
• 07/08/2010 - Panorama from Forest Hill
• 07/15/2010 - Cullowhee High School Basketball team, 1950-51
• 07/22/2010 - View of Sylva from the mid-1930s
• 07/29/2010 - Blue Ridge Parkway’s 25th Anniversary
• 08/05/2010 - Cullowhee High School girls basketball team, 1954
• 08/12/2010 - Jackson County Courthouse, 1914
• 08/19/2010 - Kemp-Davis family reunion, 1956
• 08/26/2010 - A home in Cullowhee, 1940 flood