Who are the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)? According to the DAR website (www.dar.org), the organization was founded in 1890 with the mission of “promoting historic preservation, education and patriotism”. The nonprofit volunteer-based women’s service organization consists of over 185,000 members in 3,000 chapters across the world. Any woman
For years, searching the millions of records available on microfilm at the LDS Family History Library required a trip outside Haywood County to Arden or Cherokee. LDS is now digitizing millions of records, many of them available on your computer or through the Family History Centers. Now, the local LDS
A project of the Pigeon Center Multicultural Development Center, Lift Every Voice! African American History in Haywood County – Volume 1, is part of an effort to collect the history of the black community in this county. Along with personal reminiscences of how things were “back then” – childhood friendships,
On the wall in the Shook-Smathers House is a copy of a bill of sale that reads “received July 3rd 1863 of Levi Smathers twenty-nine hundred dollars in full payment for one negro girl and child. Girl named Dorcas and child named Jefferson. Woman aged about 19 years and child
The Western Regional Archives office in Asheville has the following documents available on microfilm for Haywood County, NC: Haywood Tax Records 1866-1995 Tax Maps 1989; 1992-1993 Minutes, Co. Commissioners 1868-2010 Minutes, Bd. of Education 1881-1978 Board of Elections 1940-1999 Elections, Record of 1878-1940 Inheritance Tax Records 1921-1966 Land Entries, Record
