Not very long after the Cashiers Historical Society was formed in 1996, I received a phone call from Ben Zachary, one of my many Zachary family cousins, a descendant of […]
Charles Bracken Fugate Jr., called Paw or Uncle Charlie, was born in Cashiers in 1878, the son of Charles Bracken Fugate Sr. and Mary Arlissa Norton. During the Great Depression, […]
In the August 2018 Laurel Magazine, the Cashiers history article was about Whiteside Cove’s Felix Eugene Alley, who in the late 1800s wrote the “Ballad of Kidder Cole” which detailed […]
It has been over a decade since I wrote an article about the well-known 15-stanza square-dance banjo tune known as “The Ballad of Kidder Cole.” I concentrated more on the […]
Few North Carolinians have a story to match that of William Holland Thomas (1805–1893), the “white chief” of the Cherokee. He’s one of my favorite historical characters, and this article […]
The Cashiers Historical Society in 2008 offered a program entitled “19th Century Plain-Style Furniture Symposium,” with many experts on the subject giving lectures. One of these lecturers was Don Williams, […]
From the time construction began on the Zachary-Tolbert House in the 1840s until the time Thomas and Wendy Dowden purchased the house in the 1990s in order to give it […]
The history of the Cole-Tate House in Cashiers can be traced back to the November 25, 1877 marriage of George Monroe Cole to Sarah Amanda “Mandy” Zachary. The nuptials took […]
Not very long ago, the Cashiers Crossroads Chronicle featured a front page article about the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust adding the McKinney Meadow in Cashiers to their holdings. I have more […]
On a wet, overcast, hot, August afternoon in 1901, 50-year-old Evan F. Pell, a well-known and highly respected Cashiers resident, was shot and bludgeoned to death in the road outside […]
