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A very animated Charles D. Owen High School student featured in the 1968 edition of The Warhorse.
The first materials from our new partner Swannanoa Valley Museum and History Center are online now. This batch features 28 yearbooks from Black Mountain and Swannanoa, both located in Buncombe County (N.C.).
These yearboooks are from Swannanoa High School, Black Mountain High School, and Charles D. Owen High School and capture the years 1948 to 1968.
Swannanoa and Black Mountain High Schools merged to form Charles D. Owen High School in 1955. Swannanoa and Black Mountain’s final yearbooks — the 1954 editions — are included in this collection, as is the very first yearbook for Owen High School.
All of the yearbooks included in this upload can be accessed here.
An illustration of Black Mountain High School featured in the 1949 Skirmisher.
To learn more about the Swannanoa Valley Museum and History Center, visit their partner page or their website.
Thanks to a nomination by our partner, Swannanoa Valley Museum and History Center, 1,357 issues of Black Mountain News from 1951 to 1976 are now available to view on our website. Black Mountain News is published in Black Mountain which is located in western North Carolina in Buncombe County near Asheville. This batch of Black Mountain News issues builds on our current collection of the paper which originally spanned only from the paper’s first issue on September 6, 1945 to 1950.
Dancing, Singing, and Clogging This Friday, March 23, 1972
Articles published in Black Mountain News center the stories, announcements, and advertisements of the Black Mountain community along with other surrounding communities such as Swannanoa. These articles provide readers with more information on Black Mountain’s community and history during the period. Featured articles include an ad for a 1955 Tupperware party, information on the 1972 Owen High School Folk Festival, and a call for donations from the Buncombe County community for the preservation of the U.S.S. North Carolina (which currently resides in Wilmington).
Digitization of these issues was funded in part by the North Caroliniana Society.
To learn more about the Swannanoa Valley Museum and History Center, please visit their website.
To view more newspapers from around North Carolina, please visit here.
DigitalNC has added a new title to our newspaper collection: The Black Mountain News. Covering the initial five years of publication, from 1945 to 1950, 272 issues of The Black Mountain News are now available to view online. We would like to thank our partners at Swannanoa Valley Museum and History Center for contributing the microfilm that made this possible.
Located on the western side of North Carolina, Black Mountain is settled in the mountains of Buncombe County, not far from Asheville. As stated previously, The Black Mountain News was a new periodical in 1945. Marketed as the first newspaper created specifically for the Black Mountain and Swannanoa communities, the newspaper initially divided space by township. Different nearby towns occupied specific sections of the newspaper, such as the Swannanoa Section and the Old Fort News. Interestingly, the size of these town sections visibly decreased as time went on, moving to shorter news letters, and room was made for general weeklies such as This Week’s Editorial.
Notably, the date range of these additions also covers the period immediately after World War II ended, with the first printed issue dating September 6th, 1945. Victory bond advertisements can be found in these early issues.
For a look at all of the front pages of The Black Mountain News we have so far, click here. For more information on Swannanoa Valley Museum and History Center, click here.
Thanks to the Western Regional Archives, we’ve added more issues of Black Mountain News from Black Mountain, N.C., to our North Carolina Newspapers collection. This title was originally suggested for digitization by the Swannanoa Valley Museum. This batch includes issues from 1977-78 and 1981-83 and features some of the local happenings from the area.
One exciting piece of news from May 19, 1983, is the announcement of a folk music festival at the site of the historic Black Mountain College. The festival, which lasted two days, featured Norman and Nancy Blake, Trapezoid, Kevin Burke and Michael O’Domhnaill, the Red Clay Ramblers, and Touchstone. Festivalgoers came from all over; the paper reports that out-of-state ticket sales outnumbered local sales three to one, with Pennsylvania attendees leading the charge. There were also crafters and dancers at the festival—and if you’d like to learn how to clog dance, here’s a tutorial from the Apple Chill Cloggers (starting around 3:50).
You can see all issues of the Black Mountain News here or browse our North Carolina Newspapers collection by location, type, and date. To see all materials from the Western Regional Archives, you can visit their partner page and their website.
