In mid-October, a group of history buffs boarded a van at the Zachary-Tolbert House grounds at the Cashiers Historical Society office and traveled down to Rabun County, Georgia, for a […]
Dr. William Stewart Halsted, a New York native who was the first chief surgeon of John Hopkins Hospital, was the person who gave the name “High Hampton” to the beautiful […]
And now for the rest of the story. You’re thinking “what story?” I’m referring to the last paragraph in my article in the August issue of the Laurel Magazine, which […]
This receipt of $60 (in Confederate money?) was paid to the Confederate government in August of 1864 for the year of 1863, by Cashiers Valley resident Alexander Zachary. It […]
Perhaps the petroglyph photographed in this article isn’t old enough to be designated as such, as the American College Dictionary gives the definition of petroglyph as “a drawing or carving […]
When Henry Woodfin Miller died in Transylvania County, North Carolina, on January 28, 1931, he was 95 years old and had lived an event-filled life. Most of his following story […]
The Google Dictionary describes the word “graffiti” as “writing on walls; drawings or words that are scratched, painted, or sprayed on walls or other surfaces.” In our day and age […]
Frequently I am asked what kind of a Colonel was Colonel John Alexander Zachary, one of the earliest settlers of Cashiers Valley? What war did he serve in or was […]
When you finish reading this article, you’ll hug your washing machine. The majority of mountain families didn’t get electricity hooked up until after World War II. I’ve used two sources […]
Although John Roberts Zachary of Seneca, South Carolina, gave the speech at the first Zachary Family Reunion on August 28, 1909, another person actually wrote the speech. That was Kannie […]
