This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Mary Jo Padgett a longtime Hendersonville public servant and ambassador
Mary Jo Padgett led Hendersonville and Henderson County through two city council terms including mayor pro tem four years, co founded ECO, served on Conserving Carolina and Friends of DuPont Forest boards, and helped restore historic sites. A noted journalist and tour guide of historic Paris US Franco American history, she is proposed for the North Carolina Order of the Longleaf Pine. Voyager Jere Brittain adds a Mills River perspective as a horticulture professor, musician, and local history writer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Jo Padgett
Hendersonville
Henderson County
Environmental and Conservation Organization of
ECO
Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy
Conserving Carolina
Friends of DuPont Forest
Henderson County Arts Council Board
Hendersonville Sister Cities Board
Mary Jo
Our State
Hendersonville Times News
Southern Living
Asheville Citizen- Times
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The
Paris Times
Mother Earth News
Arizona Centennial Legacy Project
Ms. Padgett
Lela McBride
Carolina Mountain Land
Conservancy
N.C
Paris
USA
Picpus
Lafayette
Yorktown
Trocadero
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Chamber of Commerce
American Library
WICE
North Carolina
Order of the Longleaf Pine
Voyager
Mills River
Jere Brittain
Clemson University