2753 Asheville Hwy. Pisgah Forest, NC

Local attorney Don Jordan’s talk is titled “A Tangled Web, The Legal History of Pisgah Forest”.  His appreciation for the history of the Pisgah Forest community told through the land transaction along the Davidson River is a significant contribution to our understanding of our past.  Many local families lived in what today we know as […]

Gene Baker, Transylvania native and Gillespie descendant, will tell the story of John Gillespie, the patriarch of the Gillespie Rifle Makers, who settled along the East Fork of the French Broad River prior to 1800.This family would make American gun making history… their working class guns, now very rare, with long and usually larger caliber […]

.  The Pressley brothers lived in the Allison-Deaver House during the cold winter of 1960.  These Transylvania natives will tell stories about their family, stories that will help bring life back to this historic home. Bring a chair, invite a neighbor, enjoy Transylvania’s most historic park.