Breakthroughs in tuberculosis treatment in the early 1900s sky-rocketed Highlands’ fame. From 1908-1918 Mary Lapham with her compassionate, innovative medical remedies, got herself noticed in a big way. 2018 marks […]
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 […]
In 1886 Highlands’ Fourth Street had a speed bump…a natural speed bump so high it was upending wagons that approached the Main Street intersection with too much horsepower. Fourth and […]
Cashiers Historical Society invites you to join them for two exciting events they have planned during the month of June. First is the 14th Annual Jan Wyatt Symposium on Thursday, […]
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, […]
People often seek jobs that not only help others, but help themselves. Dr. Henry O’Farrell, an Irish immigrant, went to Colorado to cure his consumption. Then he heard about Highlands’ […]
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 […]
Ran Shaffner’s “Heart of the Blue Ridge” is a delightful read for history buffs, but, interestingly enough, 14 appendices also tell insightful stories in their own dossier kind of way. […]
