by mcncdmin | Aug 26, 2020 | Heritage, People
Nathan Garland was born in Bakersville on January 15, 1857. He was the son of Stephen Garland and Elizabeth Forbes. Nathan married Cordelia “Celia” Hopson in 1879. Nathan and Celia lived in the Fork Mountain township and raised ten children together as follows:...
by mcncdmin | Aug 3, 2020 | Heritage, History
In July of 1946, the Spruce Pine Chapter of the American Business Club dedicated the Spruce Pine Club House. According to the Asheville Citizen Times “The clubhouse with its entertainment facilities constitutes one of the most modern recreational centers in this...
by mcncdmin | Jul 13, 2020 | Heritage, People
Spruce Pine sported two “semi-pro” teams from the 1930’s through the 1950’s in both baseball and basketball. These teams provided entertainment for not only Spruce Pine, but for the surrounding counties as well. The teams played at Deyton Field, which is now Spruce... by mcncdmin | Dec 27, 2019 | Heritage, People
You felt safe and loved in this place. But sadly, that small-town charm diminishes when you grow up and move on. As anything else, things looked grand and bigger than life, as it did for me back in the late-1950s. Growing up in Spruce Pine was the best years of my...
by mcncdmin | Oct 16, 2018 | Heritage, History, People, Uncategorized
In 2015 Joy Jarvits, who lives near Chapel Hill, called fellow quilter Jean Biddix Buchanan about a project she began in 2001 to collect a quilt block from all 100 counties of North Carolina. The blocks would be used to make a quilt celebrating the opening of the...
by Rhonda Gunter | Jan 12, 2018 | Heritage, People
In the Tipton Hill Community Cemetery rests a Union soldier whose company helped kill “the best man in the Southern Confederacy,” General John Hunt Morgan. The phrase comes from one of Morgan’s Captains, Henry B. Clay, who was present at the killing and is quoted in...
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