Glimpses of Henderson County, North Carolina

by Terry Ruscin, Hilliard Staton (Foreword by)

Overview

Henderson County is known for its country inns, houses of worship and picturesque landscapes.

Behind all the beautiful scenery is a colorful history that runs deeper than any creek or holler. Revel in the family and farming heritage of Edneyville, Clear Creek, Green River Township, Hoopers Creek and Fruitland. Relive the resort era when the region boomed as a tourist destination. Learn how the wee population center of Goodluck came by its name, and inhale the sweet fragrance of apple blossoms that bloom every springtime. Drawing from interviews, documents and a gallery of both contemporary and time-honored photography, author and researcher Terry Ruscin renders his adopted Henderson County in vivid detail.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625852298
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/23/2014
Series:	American Chronicles
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Terry Ruscin is an author, photographer, historian and retired advertising executive. Ruscin is a member of the Henderson County Genealogical and Historical Society, Historic Flat Rock Inc., Hendersonville's Design Review Advisory Committee overseeing the city's historic districts and a commissioner with the Henderson County Historic Resources Commission. Hilliard Staton is a retired senior vice-president working within the securities industry. He has served on the Board of European Options Exchange, the Dutch Commodities Industry Association and served for fourteen years as a captain in the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office. Staton has been involved in the local community through the North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation, Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy and the Blue Ridge Community College Foundation. He lives in Hendersonville.

Table of Contents

Foreword Hilliard Staton 11

Preface 13

Acknowledgements 15

I How Green the Green River Valley 17

Vance-Carson Duel Site 20

Oakland 21

Promised Land 23

Briggs/Capps Mill 25

The Freemans of Green River 27

Green River Gems 32

John Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Pace 36

Provenance of the Surname Pace 38

Levi Jones 39

Tuxedo and Lake Summit 40

Green River Summer Camps 48

Worshipful Place 51

Green River Schools 59

Green River Post Offices-A Chronology 60

Country Stores 61

II Where Apple Seeds and Methodism Took Root in Henderson County 65

Provenance of the Surname Edney 71

The Brothers Edney 72

Methodism in Western North Carolina 80

William Mills 83

Fruitland Institute 85

La Capilla de Santa María 88

Prestwood|o89

Townsend Home, Pittillo Cider House and Love Family Home 91

Provenance of the Surname Pittillo 93

Let There Be Peace in the Valley 94

St. Paul's Episcopal Church 96

The Lyda Family 103

Bee Hive Inn 104

Mission Schools 108

More Lydas of Note 109

Secular Schools 117

What's in Store? 120

Brows of the Blue Ridge 120

Mount Moriah Baptist Church 122

III In with the Inn Crowd 125

Flack Hotel 128

Chickasaw/Blue Ridge Hotel 132

The Recreation 133

Salola Inn/Clow's Dude Ranch 134

Lowrance Hotel 139

Edney Inn 139

Slick Rock Inn 140

Peacock Inn 141

Bason Falls Inn 144

IV Esoteric Hoopers Creek 145

The Lannings 151

The Youngbloods and a Place Called Goodluck 152

Who Were the Hoopers? 154

Mary Etta Pentecostal Holiness Church 155

The Pentecostal Movement in North Carolina 158

The Lighthouse on the Hill 159

Provenance of the Surname Garren 164

V Sinister 165

The Mysterious Myrtle Hawkins 165

A Case of Puppy Love Gone Awry 173

Rambo on Sugarloaf Mountain 179

Easter Massacre 187

Disasters in the Sky 192

Afterword 201

Bibiography 203

Index 207

About the Author 223