Shaw’s Creek A.M.E. Zion Church had begun in 1865 when a group of people from Horseshoe, N.C., persevered in their desire to worship in a church of their own. As time went on some of the members of Shaw’s Creek moved into Hendersonville to find …
Johnnie Washington looks at the gravestone of Mary Maxwell at a cemetery on Green Mountain in Fruitland. It is believed that the graves of slaves and the ancestors of many local blacks are buried in the cemetery, which contains more than 60 fieldstones. Jennie Giles/TIMES-NEWS …
Some African American families in Henderson county are starting to celebrate Kwanzaa, a unique African-American celebration that focuses on the traditional African values of family, community responsibility, commerce and self-improvement. https://www.blueridgenow.com/article/NC/20051230/News/606079887/HT
Poem by Crystal Cauley Interpretative dance and video produced by Indian Jackson Courtesy of Black History Collective of Henderson County, NC
Alma Avery shares her experiences growing up in poverty and then later working in a box factory in Henderson County. Watch Alma Avery’s interview with the Mountain Elder Wisdom Project
Johnny Young owned a concrete finishing business. His projects included the sidewalks of Downtown Hendersonville, Carolina Village and Four Seasons Mall. Johnny Young was a self-employed concrete finisher who owned and operated his own business for over 30 years in Henderson County. His work projects …
James Pilgrim was a nationally prominent funeral director who raised Senator Cory Booker’s father in Hendersonville. James Pilgrim was born in 1915 of parents who came to Hendersonville from South Carolina to cook in some of the city’s famous old inns. He graduated from Stephens-Lee …
Street names: Justice St. from 1st Ave. W. to 3rd Ave. W. S. Oak from 1st Ave. W. To 3rd Ave. W. N. Oak from 1st Ave W. To 3rd Ave. W. Jones Alley Jones St. from 1st Ave. W. To 3rd Ave. W. Gravel …
Street names: Sixth Ave. W. Between N. Justice and Prince Seventh Ave. W. Sam Mills St. (old 8th Ave. W.) Conner Ave. from N. Oak going W. Ninth Ave. W. Starting at Justice N. Justice from 6th to 9th N. Oak from 6th to 9th …
Black Bottom began where S. Church Street intersects with W. Caswell Street addresses 203-302 to the bend of Kanuga (Present day Hot Dog World location). At the time the neighborhood of Black Bottom existed, this part of Kanuga was named Caswell. Houses of Black Bottom …