Henderson County Genealogical & Historical Society

05/04/2026

Celebrate Historic Preservation Month this May with the City of Hendersonville’s Historic Preservation Commission! 🎉 Enjoy a series of free events highlighting the people, places, and stories that make our community unique:

🏛️ May 6 – Plaque Unveiling (6 PM) + 🧠 History Trivia (7 PM) at Guidon Brewing
📜 May 13 – City Council Proclamation + Annual Report (5:45 PM)
🏆 May 26 – Preservation Awards Reception (5 PM) at Honeysuckle Holler (RSVP required)

RSVP for the Awards Reception here -https://www.eventbrite.com/e/preservation-awards-reception-tickets-1987561219110?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true

Join us as we honor local history and the people working to preserve it for future generations.

Learn more by visiting www.hendersonvillehpc.org/events

05/02/2026

A few photos from our quarterly meeting this morning. We enjoyed a great educational presentation by Michael Arrowood of Explore Henderson County about the "Old Buncombe Turnpike." Join us for our next gathering which will be our annual luncheon meeting to be held on August 1st. Our meeting calendar is located here https://www.hcghs.org/events/

05/01/2026

Just to let you know we have recently received a limited quantity of the "Laurel Park - A Retrospective" published by Knox Crowell in 2025 available for sale for $25 plus tax & S/H. Contact us if interested at 828-693-1531 or hcghs@bellsouth.net

04/28/2026

There will be a clean-up by a group for the Edney Cemetery in Bat Cave on Saturday, May 9th from 9am-12pm that was damaged by Hurricane Helene. If interested in helping out or need more information contact Toby Linville at tlinville@hendersoncountync.gov or call 828-694-6627.

04/26/2026

Sample page related to Hendersonville from a 1925 road map of Eastern and Western Dixie Highway Mid-West published by Tourist Service Department of the Mohawk Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio. Interesting bits of information is often found in old road maps like this about our town at that time (from our Map/Plat Collection).

04/25/2026

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04/25/2026

Significance: It marks the publication of the foundational DNA structure paper by Watson and Crick (1953) and the successful mapping of the human genome (2003).

Origin: Proclaimed in 2003 by the U.S. Congress to celebrate the completion of the Human Genome Project.

Purpose: To inform students, educators, and the public about the importance of genetic research, often accompanied by educational events and online resources.

Activities: Many organizations hold events, including the ASHG DNA Day Essay Contest for high schoolers, and companies often offer special DNA testing deals to encourage ancestry and health exploration.

04/23/2026

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04/19/2026

Pisgah View Subdivision (from our Map/Plat collection) known now as the Laurel Park Shopping Center on Brevard Road (U.S. 64). You can see that Pisgah Drive (shown as Pisgah Avenue) still exist as originally laid out in this survey by Charles Turner who later own a house adjacent to the Pisgah Drive shown in his survey. This same Pisgah Avenue is now the DOT construction site of a roundabout adjacent to the Laurel Park Shopping Center. A bit of Chip Drake's detailed early history follows:

Pisgah View subdivision was part of larger tract of land purchased by Flake Houston in 1918 from Frank N. Grover and his wife Blanch. Frank Grover was living in Hendersonville working for Knoxville Power Company as a civil engineer in 1917 and by 1920 had moved his family to Alma, Michigan. This sale was for 76 acres excepting about 2 acres that had previously been deeded for the Rhymer School located near Shaws Creek Road (now U.S. 64 or Brevard Road/Highway). Frank Gover purchased the property from Vinton and Jane Liddell in 1913. The Liddell family purchased the property from the Hill family in 1905 (property then known as the Hill House) who had purchased this property from Verina Chapman in 1877.

The plat of Pisgah View was registered in the office of Register of Deeds in Henderson County in Book of Plats No. 1 at Page 116. Charles B. Turner, a civil engineer surveyed and laid out the subdivision for Flake Ramsey Houston about 1 mile from the Hendersonville town limits on the Hendersonville/Brevard Road. It was created in 1926 during a real estate boom in Henderson County. Only 8 of it’s 69 lots were sold because a real estate crash ensued shortly after the subdivision was surveyed. Charles Burress Turner Sr. was born in 1870 who died in 1958. He practiced his trade in Henderson County. This tract of land was adjacent to the east of the Davis Grove Subdivision also bordering Brevard Road. There were several references to Flake Houston living in a home in Pisgah view at this time. Virginia Street in the Pisgah View Plat is believed to be the former driveway that went to a home known as the Hill house (General Daniel Harvey Hill).