Brevard History
The seat of Transylvania County (named not for the region of Romania but probably after an 18th-century colony), Brevard was named for a Revolutionary War colonel and physician, Dr. Ephraim Brevard. Dr. Brevard is the purported author of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, an early anti-British document of unknown authenticity. His patriotism and war heroism were recognized eighty years after his death when nineteenth-century county legislators chose to name the new town of Brevard in his honor.
Brevard’s first settlers were the Cherokee people, and the modern-day capital of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee nation lies less than two hours away to the northwest. The town’s earliest white settlers arrived in the late eighteenth century, persevering outside of major local trade routes and living off the native richness of the place called the “Land of Waterfalls.”
The town’s transportation infrastructure grew with the demand for timber and the beginnings of what would become Western North Carolina’s booming tourist industry. Once home to settlers and Native Americans, the town of Brevard found itself becoming an in-demand area for outdoor recreation, retirement homes and the escape to an unspoiled natural world.
~ Brevard guide pages ~
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