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This postcard of the Franklin Hotel was postmarked August 22, 1906
Brevard Industrial School, Brevard NC
Postmarked December 20, 1910. This post card was published by T. B. Allison, Brevard, NC
Down the Valley from the Franklin
Published by T.D. Allison, Brevard, NC
Nearing Brevard
Published by S.M. Macfie, Brevard, NC.
Brevard’s Cornet Band
Photo taken in front of the Franklin Hotel, 1920s. Postcard published by S.M. Macfie, Brevard, NC
Episcopal Church, Brevard, NC
Founded in 1883, this church replaced the earlier congregation in Dunn’s Rock called St. Paul’s in the Valley. This wooden structure perished in a fire on Christmas Day in 1925. The current church, a notable example of Normanesque Revival Architecture, was built in 1926 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Bird’s eye view of Brevard, NC
Produced by the Southern Postcard Company, Asheville NC, the back of the card reads:
“Brevard is delightfully located on a plateau at an average altitude of 2,250 feet, in the Sapphire Country with a scenic environment of unrivaled beauty. It is on the Transylvania Division of the Southern Railway, forty-three miles from Asheville and twenty-two miles from Hendersonville.”
