Days Gone By columns

Here are links to all of Bruce Whitaker's columns (from 2010) in the Town Crier. Many of these will open to an older design of this site.

1880 Fairview Census, Part One (4/3/2024)
Corn Shucks (2/27/2024)
Robert Henry (2/1/2024)
Garren’s Tonic (1/11/2024)
General Edgar Porter Alexander (12/7/2023)
Punishment Prior to 1868 (11/2/2023)
Colonel Samuel Winslow Davidson (9/28/2023)
Major William Davidson (8/31/2023)
Gold in These Hills (8/3/2023)
Albertus Burgin Fortune Sr. (6/29/2023)
Alonzo Carlton Reynolds (5/31/2023)
Nobel Erwin and Millie McBrayer Penland (5/3/2023)
Joseph and Catherine Creasman Stroup (3/31/2023)
Lytle and Mary Merrell (3/1/2023)
Nancy Maloney Reed (2/2/2023)
John Lanning as a Soldier (1/4/2023)
Narcissa Nicholson Rickman, Part 2 (12/5/2022)
Narcissa Nicholson Rickman, Part 1 (11/3/2022)
A Civil War Letter Home (10/2/2022)
Did a Famous Outlaw Visit WNC? (8/1/2022)
The British Encouraged the Cherokee to Go to War (7/3/2022)
Clayborne Stroud Freeman (6/6/2022)
The McCrary Family (5/2/2022)
John B. McBrayer (4/5/2022)
When Theodore Roosevelt Visited Asheville (3/3/2022)
The Geographic Roots of Fairview’s Early Settlers (2/9/2022)
The Fence Problem (1/6/2022)
The Aftermath: A Bloody Night in Downtown Asheville, Part Six (12/6/2021)
A Bloody Night in Downtown Asheville, Part Five (11/17/2021)
A Bloody Night in Downtown Asheville, Part Three (9/2/2021)
A Bloody Night in Downtown Asheville, Part Two (7/31/2021)
A Bloody Night in Downtown Asheville, Part 1 (7/1/2021)
New Bethany Baptist Church of Broad River (6/5/2021)
The 1870 Fairview Census, Part 3 (5/4/2021)
The 1870 Census of Fairview, Part Two (4/4/2021)
The 1870 Census of Fairview, Part One (3/3/2021)
William “Billy” Wolf (Wolfe) (2/4/2021)
152 Families Living in Fairview in 1860, Part 3 (1/5/2021)
152 Families Living in Fairview in 1860, Part 2 (12/2/2020)
152 Families Living in Fairview in 1860, Part 1 (10/30/2020)
Mary Jane “Polly” King Justice (10/1/2020)
George Willis Pack (9/2/2020)
John and Nancy Whitaker Rickman (7/31/2020)
Indian Mound Trail (7/3/2020)
The Gudger Family of Western North Carolina, Part Two (6/3/2020)
The Gudger Family of Western North Carolina, Part One (5/4/2020)
James Mitchell Alexander, Part Two (4/2/2020)
James Mitchell Alexander, Part One (3/2/2020)
Captain Thomas “Tommy” Foster, Part Two (2/3/2020)
Captain Thomas “Tommy” Foster, Part One (1/5/2020)
Memories of Broad River, Part 3 (12/3/2019)
George Aden Burgin’s Memories of Broad River, Part 2 (11/4/2019)
George Aden Burgin’s Memories of Broad River, Part 1 (10/4/2019)
The Livingston Family of Hooper’s Creek (9/3/2019)
Samuel Murray Sr. and Family, Part One (7/1/2019)
Jeremiah West: Farmer, Carpenter, and Landowner (6/4/2019)
The Story of Magda, Part 2 (5/1/2019)
The Story of Magda, Part 1 (4/3/2019)
Growing Up in Swannanoa in the 1950s and ’60s, Part 2 (3/5/2019)
Growing Up in Swannanoa in the ’50s and ’60s (2/4/2019)
The Life and Times of Joshua Whitaker Jr. (1/4/2019)
The Murder of Luther H. Merrill (11/2/2018)
Nathaniel Robinson Freeman and Catherine Seward Freeman (10/3/2018)
Caves, Earthquakes and Floods (8/31/2018)
A Civil War Letter from Stephen Whitaker (8/1/2018)
Isaac Brock of Buncombe County: Oldest Man in American History (7/4/2018)
Newton and Julia Ann Watkins Lanning (6/4/2018)
Letter from James Whitaker Sr. to His Senator (5/3/2018)
The Story of the Third Eldad Reed (4/4/2018)
Were Jacob Reed and Johnson Ashworth Brothers? Part 2 (2/5/2018)
Were Jacob Reed and Johnson Ashworth Brothers? Part 1 (1/2/2018)
Rare Photos of the Great Asheville Flood of 1916 (11/1/2017)
Hannah Fouts Garrens Pfautz/Fouts Family (10/5/2017)
Joseph and Catherine Creasman Stroup (9/6/2017)
Best, Swannanoa Bridge, Biltmore or Foster Place (8/3/2017)
Harper’s Soapstone Mine (6/30/2017)
Gardner Lanning (6/4/2017)
Minutes of the Quarterly Conference, Part Two (5/4/2017)
Minutes of the Quarterly Conference Methodist Church South, Holston Conference, Swannanoa Circuit (4/3/2017)
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church (3/6/2017)
David Merrell Writes Home: Part Two (2/6/2017)
David Merrell Writes Home: Part One (1/4/2017)
Jonathan Withrow (12/2/2016)
John J. Lanning (11/2/2016)
John Harper (10/4/2016)
John Harper (9/21/2016)
Samuel Flavel Huntley: Part Three (7/31/2016)
Samuel Flavel Huntley: Part Two (7/5/2016)
Samuel Flavel Huntley: Part One (6/1/2016)
Robert Patterson Freeman (5/2/2016)
Robert Clingman Clayton (3/2/2016)
James “Jim” P. Aiken, Businessman: Part Two (1/29/2016)
James “Jim” P. Aiken, Businessman: Part One (1/6/2016)
Zebulon Vance Brevard (12/3/2015)
Zebulon Brevard Jr. and James Brevard of Fairview (10/29/2015)
The Brevard Family of Fairview (9/28/2015)
Jesse and Elizabeth Sorrells Sumner: Part Two (8/14/2015)
Days Gone By by Bruce Whitaker (6/25/2015)
DGB: Weather Events in Fairview and Buncombe County: Part Three (6/1/2015)
Sisters: Cynthia Sumner Williams and Margaret Sumner Williams (10/1/2014)
Joshua Whitaker Sr. and Mary Reed Whitaker: Part Two (9/1/2014)
Cane Creek Cemetery Needs Our Help (9/1/2014)
Joshua Whitaker Sr. and Mary Reed Whitaker: Part One (8/8/2014)
The Dotsons of Fairview, Part 3 by Bruce Whitaker (1/27/2014)
The Dotsons of Fairview, Part 2 by Bruce Whitaker (12/25/2013)
The Dotsons of Fairview (11/3/2013)
Edward “Pore Ole Green” Bass, Part Two by Bruce Whitaker (10/7/2013)
Edward “Pore Ole Green” Bass, Part One by Bruce Whitaker (9/2/2013)
Lambert C. and Elizabeth Burgin Clayton by Bruce Whitaker (8/12/2013)
Eliza C. Waldroup & Socrates “Scrate” Ingle by Bruce Whitaker (6/30/2013)
Socrates Elmer Ingle by Bruce Whitaker (6/3/2013)
Uncle Fie and Aunt Liz: James Fidella and Elizabeth Whitaker Jenkins Part Three by Bruce Whitaker (5/1/2013)
Uncle Fie and Aunt Liz: James Fidella and Elizabeth Whitaker Jenkins Part Two, by Bruce Whitaker (4/11/2013)
Uncle Fie and Aunt Liz: James Fidella and Elizabeth Whitaker Jenkins Part One by Bruce Whitaker (3/6/2013)
Sarah “Sallie” Whitaker Jenkins by Bruce Whitaker (3/4/2013)
Joshua David “Dave” Barnwell, Part Two by Bruce Whitaker (1/14/2013)
Joshua David “Dave” Barnwell (1829–1881), Part One by Bruce Whitaker (12/3/2012)
James Russell by Bruce Whitaker (9/7/2012)
William and Elizabeth Ashworth Merrill by Bruce Whitaker (8/8/2012)
The Flood of 1916 Part 2 by Bruce Whitaker (5/3/2012)
The Real Old Drover’s Road, Part 2 (1/5/2012)
Days Gone By- A Fairview Vintage Christmas (12/3/2011)
The Real Old Drover’s Road (part 1) (10/27/2011)
Captain Edmund Sams, Part 2 (9/29/2011)
Captain Edmund Sams, Part 1 (8/31/2011)
Cane Creek Cemetery Needs Your Help (7/27/2011)
Days Gone By: Ray Hathaway, Baseball and the 1961 Asheville Tourists (6/30/2011)
George Mills and Capt. Walter M. “Watt” Bryson (6/6/2011)
The Vance/Carson Duel Part 2 (4/27/2011)
The Vance-Carson Duel Part 1 (3/31/2011)
George Marcus Cunningham Part 2 (3/3/2011)
George Marcus Cunningham (2/9/2011)
Leander and Zilpha Elmina Wright Freeman (1/9/2011)
Slavery in Fairview, Final in Series (12/8/2010)
Slavery in Fairview, Part Three (11/9/2010)