Black-owned Businesses
Photo Credit: Pilgram Funeral Home, Courtesy of the Baker Barber Collection
Black-owned Businesses
Henderson County’s Black middle class, through diligent efforts, made an independent living through their own enterprises and stand out for their ...
Black-owned Businesses 1865-1900
Farming was by far the preferred way to gain financial stability for Blacks during the antebellum period. Only eight people prior ...
Black-owned Businesses 1900-1950
By 1910, 46 Blacks owned at least 30 acres of land with three of these farmers owning 100 acres or ...
Black-owned Businesses 1950-1970
The period from 1950 through 1965 brought change to Henderson County. The transition from the injustices of segregation to the equal ...
Flat Rock Blacksmith
John Markley and his sons were well-known African-American blacksmiths in Flat Rock from 1877 until the early 1900’s. https://www.blueridgenow.com/article/NC/20130217/News/606022456/HT ...
An Early Electrician
Robert Quinn wired local theaters and churches in the 1930’s. This interview with his wife was done in 1939 through ...
Greenbook Guest House
The Landina Guest House was one of many Black-owned businesses that served the Black community in the days of segregation ...
Vegetables for the Tailgate Market
Alma Logan Avery sold vegetables she grew on her farm in Lake Lure at the Tailgate market. https://www.blueridgenow.com/article/NC/20040705/News/606053642/HT ...
Oak Creste
George L. and Lavinia M. Potts first lived in a cabin George built on land he owned on Glassy Mountain ...
James Pilgrim
James Pilgrim was a nationally prominent funeral director who raised Senator Cory Booker’s father in Hendersonville. James Pilgrim was born ...
