In the Museum’s Research Room is an extensive Vertical File with listings on the Subjects and People below. Please call the Museum to make an appointment to use our Vertical Files for research. 

Vertical Files – People, Finding Aid

Vertical Files – Subjects (Finding Aid Coming Soon!)

  • AARP – Swannanoa Valley
  • ABC Bills
  • Airport
  • Archeology
  • Asheville Farm School
  • Assembly Grounds
  • Azalea
  • Bailey Law School
  • Bee Tree
  • Billy Graham’s The Cove
  • Black History
  • Black Mountain Savings Bank
  • Black Mountain College
  • Blue Ridge Assembly
  • Buckeye Cove
  • Black Mountain
  • Black Mountain Businesses
  • Businesses-Swannanoa
  • Camps
  • Camp Elliott
  • Camp Merri-Mac
  • Dorothy Walls
  • Carver School
  • Cemeteries
  • Chemtronics, Amcell Fire
  • Cherokee
  •  Churches
    • Bee Tree Christian Church
    • Berea Baptist
    • Black Mountain First Baptist Church
    • Black Mountain Presbyterian Church
    • Burgin’s Chapel Baptist Church
    • Community of the Cross
    • First Christian Church
    • East Black Mountain Free Will Baptist
    • First Baptist of Swannanoa
    • Friendship Presbyterian Church (PCA)
    • Homer’s Chapel
    • Kerlee Baptist Church
    • Lakewood Baptist Church
    • Macedonia Church History
    • Meadowbrook Freewill Baptist Church
    • Mills Chapel Baptist Church
    • Mountain View Baptist – North Fork
    • Mountain View Chapel Fire, Baptized Holiness Church of the God of Americas
    • Mt. Zion AME Church – Brookside
    • New Salem Missionary Baptist Church
    • Piney Grove – Swannanoa First Presbyterian Church
    • Riceville Presbyterian Church
    • Ridgecrest Baptist Church
    • Robert Patton Meeting House – 1st Presbyterian Church in Valley
    • The Sanctuary Community Church
    • St. James Episcopal
    • St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church
    • Swannanoa Free Will Baptist
    • Swannanoa Valley Missionary Baptist Church
    • Swannanoa United Methodist Church
    • Tabernacle United Methodist Church
    • Thomas Chapel AME Zion Church
    • Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley
  •  Church History Project
  • Dairy
  • Deeds
  • Early Settlers
  • Environment
  • Fires
  • Fire Department – Black Mountain
  • Floods
  • 4-H
  • Grovemont
  •  Guastavino
  • Highland Farms
  • High School, Black Mountain
  • High School, Swannanoa
  • Holman Christian University
  • In The Oaks
  •  Juvenile Evaluation Center
  • Lake Tomahawk
  • Medicine
    • Cragmont Sanatorium
    • Royal League Sanatorium
    • Swannanoa Valley Medical Center o WNC Sanatorium
    • VA Hospital – Oteen
  • Miami Mountain
  • Monte Vista
  • Montreat
  • Moore General Hospital
  • Mt. Mitchell and Motor Road
  • Mountain Orphanage – Presbyterian Home
  • Museum Activities
    • Museum Hikes and Daycation Events
    • Swannanoa Valley Rim Hikes
    • Museum Beginnings
      • Organization of Museum
      • Licensing
    • Museum Exhibits
      • Clay Cabin
      • Museum Artifacts
        • Casket Exhibit
      • Exhibits
      • Programming
    • Museum General
    • Photographic Memories
    • Museum Pathways
    • Museum Renovations
  • Music
  • Music – Greene Acres
  • Natural History
  • Newspapers
  • North Fork
    • Watershed Cemetery Report
  • Organizations and Clubs
  • Owen Manufacturing
  • Owen Middle and High School
  • Pairing Project – Black Mountain
  • Post Office
  • Railroad
    • Montreat Railroad
    • Mt. Mitchell Railroad o Southern Railroad
    • Tunnels
    • WNC Railroad
  • Riceville
  • Ridgecrest
  • Roads – Highways, Stagecoaches
  • Roseland Gardens
  • Scouts
  • Silo Circle Theater
  • SPCC/FANS
  • Sports
  • Sunshine School
  • Swannanoa
    • Downtown Swannanoa
  • Swannanoa River
  • Theaters
  • Textiles
  • Town, Black Mountain
  • Tyson Furniture
  • Warren Wilson College
  • Wars
    • WWI
    • WWI
    • War, Civil
  • Whitemont Lodge