Henderson was Superintendent of Schools. He did wonderful work in getting improved schools in all the districts and in consolidating some of the schools and building new school houses.
Transylvania County, North Carolina. Year Established. County Seat. Significance of County Name. Population Legislative Act Creating County. County Evolution by Decade. Official County Website. Click Here. Historical Post Offices. American Revolution. American Civil War. Significant Education Events. Airports in Transylvania County.
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Men in Transylvania County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company within a regiment that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in Transylvania County:. Listed below are archives in Transylvania County. For state-wide archival repositories, see North Carolina Archives and Libraries. Listed below are libraries in Transylvania County. For state-wide library facilities, see North Carolina Archives and Libraries.
Listed below are societies in Transylvania County. For state-wide genealogical societies, see North Carolina Societies. Memories Overview Gallery People Find.
Sign in Create Account. Family Tree. From FamilySearch Wiki. United States. North Carolina. In Brevard College was founded on the campus of Epworth School, an important early institute for girls and young women in western North Carolina. The college in time earned a strong reputation for education in the arts and in the environmental sciences.
Brevard's reputation as an artistic community was also enhanced by the Brevard Music Center , established in and home to one of the finest summer music festivals and master class programs in the country. By the early twenty-first century, Transylvania County was firmly established as a popular mountain destination for tourists drawn to the county's natural environment and recreational opportunities.
The county is popularly billed as the "Land of Waterfalls" on account of its more than falls, including Looking Glass Falls, Sliding Rock Falls, and Whitewater Falls, which, at some feet, is considered the highest cascade east of the Rocky Mountains.
The estimated population of Transylvania County was 29, in For an annotated history of the county's formation, with the laws affecting the county, boundary lines and changes, and other origin information, visit these references in The Formation of the North Carolina Counties Corbitt, , available online at North Carolina Digital Collections note, there may be additional items of interest for the county not listed here :.
Corbitt, David Leroy. The formation of the North Carolina counties,
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