The US Forest Service and North Carolina Forest Service will be conducting three different controlled burns today so long as weather allows. The Burns are scheduled for Pisgah National Forest, Dupont State Forest, and Headwaters State Forest.
The county’s earliest recorded black commercial enterprise according to A Brief History of The Black Presence In Henderson County was a confectionary shop owned by C. E. McKenzie.
Though specific details of its origin are lost, Brooklyn (originally known as Brook Land) was established in the late 1860s by emancipated African-Americans looking for a place to call home after a lifetime of enslavement.