Ashe County Historical Society

06/27/2025

The Stage of History: Ashe County's HIstoric Courtroom and Early Country Music

After several years of work and remodeling, Ashe County’s Historic Courtroom is back to hosting live concerts. If you’d like to experience music in one of North Carolina’s most hi…

09/04/2024

The Ashe Historical Society, working with the Museum of Ashe County History, is happy to announce the launch of a new Youtube channel. This channel will feature videos relating to Ashe County history. Our first series, Voices from History, has just been published. This series takes especially interesting excerpts of interviews with historically significant Ashe County residents, and pairs them with relevant photos from the Historical Society's archives, in order to create short documentary films....

The Ashe Historical Society, working with the Museum of Ashe County History, is happy to announce the launch of a new Youtube channel. This channel will feature videos relating to Ashe County histo…

08/13/2024

In an effort to make more rare volumes of Ashe County history available, we have recently digitized several more rare and out of print books, converting them into searchable pdfs. These include Rambling Through Ashe, The History of Wilburn Waters, and both volumes of the Ashe County Cemetery Records. Because these files are digital, they are available at a discounted rates. All are excellent resources for those interested in Ashe County History.

In an effort to make more rare volumes of Ashe County history available, we have recently digitized several more rare and out of print books, converting them into searchable pdfs. These include Ram…

08/13/2024

Digital Downloads of a pdf including both Volume 1 and 2 of the Ashe County Cemetery Records....

Digital Downloads of a pdf including both Volume 1 and 2 of the Ashe County Cemetery Records.

08/13/2024

A downloadable pdf of the rare Rambling Though Ashe book....

A downloadable pdf of the rare Rambling Though Ashe book.

08/13/2024

A searchable pdf file of the History of Wilburn Waters by Reverend M.D. Hart...

A searchable pdf file of the History of Wilburn Waters by Reverend M.D. Hart

07/26/2024

07/26/2024

Given the difficulty and expense of republishing our popular family history books, the Heritage of Ashe County, we have opted to embrace modern technology. Both volumes of the heritage books have b…

06/10/2024

Given the difficulty and expense of republishing our popular family history books, the Heritage of Ashe County, we have opted to embrace modern technology. Both volumes of the heritage books have been fully scanned and converted into searchable pdfs. Now you can search for any place, surname, or other keyword and find all occurrences in the hundreds of pages of text....

Given the difficulty and expense of republishing our popular family history books, the Heritage of Ashe County, we have opted to embrace modern technology. Both volumes of the heritage books have b…

06/10/2024

A download link to a searchable pdf for volume two of our Ashe County Heritage books....

A download link to a searchable pdf for volume two of our Ashe County Heritage books.

06/10/2024

A download link to a searchable pdf for volume one of our Ashe County Heritage books.

A download link to a searchable pdf for volume one of our Ashe County Heritage books.

11/21/2023

This newest book from the Ashe County Historical Society is a must have for anyone interested in local history, culture or architecture. Featuring nearly 400 homes, businesses, churches, and other …