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Transylvania County, North Carolina

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
22historic places
—earliest paper
1861formed
32,986pop. 2020
35cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 22 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Brevard, Lake Toxaway, Pisgah Forest.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for North Carolina is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Transylvania titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

12 of 22 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

22 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Biltmore Forest SchoolBrevardDistrict1974
Breese, William, Jr., HouseBrevardBuilding1983
Brevard College Stone Fence and GateBrevardStructure1993
Brombacher, Max and Claire, HouseBrevardBuilding2001
Deaver, William, HousePisgah ForestBuilding1979
East Main Street Historic DistrictBrevardDistrict2009
Galloway, Flem, HouseCalvertDistrict1995
Godfrey-Barnette HouseBrevardBuilding1993
Grogan, William H., HouseBrevardBuilding2008
Hanckel-Barclay HouseBrevardBuilding1999
Hanckel-Barclay House (Boundary Increase)BrevardBuilding2000
HillmontLake ToxawayBuilding1986
Lake Toxaway Methodist ChurchLake ToxawayBuilding1994
Main Street Historic DistrictBrevardDistrict2002
McMinn BuildingBrevardBuilding1994
Morgan's MillBrevardBuilding1979
Morrow, Royal and Louise, HouseBrevardBuilding2006
Orr, Charles E., HouseBrevardBuilding2006
Patton, Elizur and Ann, HouseBrevardBuilding2026
SilvermontBrevardBuilding1981
St. Philip's Episcopal ChurchBrevardBuilding1997
Transylvania County CourthouseBrevardBuilding1979

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Transylvania was formed in 1861 (1861-02-15) from Henderson, Jackson.

TRANSYLVANIA created from HENDERSON and JACKSON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Transylvania County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

33k18k3,5361870188019201950196020002020
1870188019001920194019501960198020002020
3,5365,3406,6209,30312,24115,19416,37223,41729,33432,986

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Carl Sandberg Home National Historic SitePark unit34.2 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

35 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 35 of 35 listed
NameLatLon
Big Hill Cemetery35.11261-82.72381
Blue Ridge Gardens of Memory Cemetery35.26914-82.68734
Brevard Davidson River Presbyterian Church Memorial Garden35.23288-82.73038
Carrs Hill Baptist Church Cemetery35.20566-82.71458
Catheys Creek Baptist Church Cemetery35.1952-82.78408
Connestee Cemetery35.17729-82.74068
Coopers Cemetery35.21093-82.73685
Davidson River Cemetery35.26483-82.68985
Dunns Creek Baptist Church Cemetery35.18203-82.70954
East Fork Methodist Church Cemetery35.13059-82.76929
Evergreen Gillespie Cemetery35.22224-82.738
Gillespie Cemetery35.13311-82.80038
Glazener Cemetery35.21955-82.74512
Holden Cemetery35.17707-82.70705
King - Old Town Cemetery35.23074-82.73149
Masters Cemetery35.09696-82.75026
McCall Cemetery35.2006-82.90222
McCall Cemetery35.25717-82.62688
McGaha Cemetery35.14797-82.67643
Middle Fork Baptist Church Graveyard35.12203-82.82446
Oak Grove Community Church Graveyard35.25089-82.72202
Oakland Cemetery35.11166-82.95212
Old Toxaway Baptist Church Lower Cemetery35.10063-82.8544
Old Toxaway Baptist Church Upper Cemetery35.10653-82.84806
Orr Cemetery35.23511-82.64873
Osborne Cemetery35.25464-82.64478
Owens Cemetery35.19815-82.91652
Round Top Cemetery35.20955-82.71568
Saint Paul's in the Valley Episcopal Cemetery35.20064-82.71717
Saint Philip's Episcopal Church Cemetery35.23145-82.73057
Shady Grove Cemetery35.21525-82.74962
Thomas Cemetery35.20011-82.60067
Turkey Creek Cemetery35.27655-82.68629
Whitmire Cemetery35.13327-82.82197
Wilson Cemetery35.22387-82.72188

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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