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Elizabeth was a wonderful cook, creating some of the most amazing dishes in Haywood County. She was first employed at the Garden Hotel, where she was the head cook, until the operation moved across the street to the Towne House. Elizabeth also worked…

Elizabeth Haley was very family oriented. Elizabeth's husband passed away when their daughter, Georgia, was three, leaving her to raise Georgia alone. Haley's father, Walter, helped Elizabeth a great deal in Georgia's upbringing. This is a photograph…

The Towne House might have been owned by Myrtle and Maude, but Elizabeth was the star, known throughout Haywood County for her cooking. Various white social and political groups held meetings here regularly, and other local big shots came to enjoy…

• Noting a “lack of supervised activities and the absence of a place to facilitate those activities,” the Pigeon Community Development Club presented the Haywood County Board of Commissioners with a proposal to create a “unified community club” at…

Hosting a fish fry event is one of the ways the Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center raises their funds. This particular event was in preparation for the summer time expenses needed for activities and other events. This event was held in…

This undated news article is an example of the diverse ways the Pigeon Community has the center’s space. It features news from the community’s Homemaker’s Club and indicates a variety of planned activities.

Photos of the Lowery family and newspaper article about 'Nat the Cat'

This massive multimillion-dollar machine started operating in 1965, as Champion continued to grow. It could produce enough paperboard to make a pint milk carton for every man, woman and child in the United States. At that time, the mill's No. 20…

Nat the Cat in his DJ booth at WWIT.

An easy guide to understand the exact definition of the AME Zion Church in general. AME Zion Churches exist all across the United States, South America, Africa and the West Indies and numbers over a million members in America, establishing itself as…