Brooklyn / Green Meadows Community

Brooklyn / Green Meadows Community

Brooklyn Community

Brooklyn was a vibrant community near Hendersonville’s old train depot.  It had a variety of Black-owned businesses before urban renewal ...

Greenbook Guest House

The Landina Guest House was one of many Black-owned businesses that served the Black community in the days of segregation ...

Brooklyn Neighborhood Map

Street names: Ashe St. to city limits Beech St. to city limits Cherry St. to city limits 8th Ave. East ...
Union Grove Baptist Church

Union Grove Baptist Church

The Union Grove Baptist Church of Hendersonville, N.C., was organized as a congregation in 1909, first meeting in the homes ...

The Blue Goose

Should have been named... THE PARENTS NIGHTMARE. It was the kind of place your parents always warned you about. And ...

Playing the Game

...ooh Mar-r-y Mack, Mack, Mack...all dressed in black, black, black...with sil~ ver buttons, buttons, buttons... If you can finish that rhyme, ...

Black Gold

Sometimes it’s hard to believe the changes of modernization through the years. It now seems unreal to have driven cars ...

Welcome to the Homer Davis Cafe

After all the parties were over and the theater show long closed, the place to be on a Saturday night ...