The profits from the sale of our book help support the museum's operations. All prices include shipping. You can view the contents of your shopping cart here: "Black Mountain and the Swannanoa Valley" is a 128 page pictorial history of this beautiful, scenic area of Western North Carolina, part of t...

Firehouse Pathways Themed Exhibits New in the Museum History Pieces Pathways: Nature Native American Pioneer Stagecoach Trains Paved Pathways to Tomorrow Archeologists tell us that the Swannanoa Valley has been inhabited by humans for more than 12,000 years. The prehistoric people who came through t...

Firehouse Pathways Themed Exhibits New in the Museum History Pieces New Exhibits: The Swannanoa Valley Museum is always looking for new exhibits to display: Beans, Butter, & Bacon: Early General Stores in the Swannanoa Valley"; when the railroad came through the Swannanoa Valley in the late 1...

For millennia, the Swannanoa Valley has been a pathway for animals and humans. After the Revolutionary War, pioneers entered the Valley. Some such as Col. Samuel Winslow Davidson (left) settled here. Others, including famed frontiersman Davy Crockett, passed through on their way west. Discover for y...

Firehouse Pathways Themed Exhibits New in the Museum History Pieces Pathways: Nature Native American Pioneer Stagecoach Trains Paved Pathways to Tomorrow Many of the early pioneer roads were little more than footpaths or primitive wagon trails that followed the traces or pathways carved throug...