Yancey History Association

Yancey History Association Home of the Rush Wray Museum in the McElroy House c1840. www.yanceyhistoryassociation.org

08/26/2026

48 HOURS TO GO!
Something special is coming to Rebuilding Hollers.
You’ve seen Stephanie out front telling the stories, fighting for the communities, and keeping attention on the recovery. But there’s someone who has been working tirelessly beside her and behind the scenes through it all.
In 48 hours, Tyler finally takes the mic for his first appearance on Rebuilding Hollers – Come Hell or High Waters.
What do you want to hear from the man behind the holler?

08/25/2026

There is a town in Madison County where the Appalachian Trail does not go around Main Street. It goes straight down it. 🥾

Hot Springs, North Carolina has a population under six hundred, and for a few months every year it swells with thru hikers who walk out of the woods, cross the French Broad, and find themselves standing in front of a diner with a hot breakfast waiting. The white blazes are painted on utility poles here. Locals give directions by them. It is one of only a handful of towns on the entire 2,190 mile trail where the footpath and the sidewalk are the same thing.

The mineral springs that gave the town its name have been drawing people since the 1700s, long before anybody thought to walk from Georgia to Maine. Mornings in late summer the fog rolls off the Bald Mountains and sits on the rooftops until almost nine, and the whole place feels like it is holding its breath. 🏔️

What is the smallest Carolina town you have ever stopped in and wished you had stayed longer?

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3 Academy Street
Burnsville, NC
28714

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Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm

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+18286789587

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