Haywood County, North Carolina: Portrait of a Mountain Community

Haywood County was created in 1808 from Buncombe County, N.C. It was a important migration path for early settlers moving into Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina. These early settlers moving into this area were of Scots-Irish, German and English descent. Even though this book is Brand New and never before published, it has many similarities to other county history books written from much earlier times. With such topics as trade and transportation, labor and industry, farming, politics, legal system, religion, education, natural disasters, and social and community relations – all important in the development of the county – are carefully discussed. This type of county history book can help one develop ideas or paths to those missing ancestors by showing the customs and traditions of the local residents.

Haywood County Historical Society

2009, 8.5" x 11", cloth, index, 504 pp.

ISBN: 9780893088552

117-BA7