Some Cashiers Things to Know 5.25.2023

Cashiers' history traces to 1820 and 1833 when two men, last names of Norton, around 1820, and Zachary, 1833, came to the area. Locally, the name Cashiers is pronounced KASH-erz rather than the way it's pronounced for a person working at a cash register, a cashier. How did that happen? A number of stories circulate about the name and pronunciation origin, but Carol Bryson researched and found THE story.

Alexander Zachary, older brother of Jonathan Zachary who opened the post office in 1839, ran a store and boarding house and also provided services similar to banking. Miners in the area would go to the casher's place, Alexander's store, to barter for goods or exchange their gold for cash, saying, "Let's go to the Casher's." Jonathan Zachary noticed this common usage of cashier and named his post office "Cashers Valley".

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These cups and others are sold at The Cashiers Store next to The Cornucopia, or The Corn as it's called locally.

To experience and learn more about Cashiers' history, visit the Zachary-Tolbert House on 107 south and The Cashiers Historical Society. https://www.cashiershistoricalsociety.org/

Chrysler Curve and Cabbage Curve are two hairpin curves that demand caution when encountered. Chrysler Curve is on highway 64, about 4 miles east of Cedar Creek Rd. and highway 64. The Jackson and Transylvania County line and Holly Forest 5 & 6 are landmarks there, just before the curve if headed west on 64 from Brevard. This curve appears to have its naming origin in moonshine running. One bit of local lore says moonshiners outrunning the revenuers on this road rolled their car at the hairpin, rolled down the hill and landed on its wheels on the road curve below. Driving Caution: whether west or eastbound at this curve, if a large truck is in the oncoming lane, STOP, and let the truck accomplish the curve. It is such a sharp curve with no shoulder to speak of that trucks require both lanes to make it.

Cabbage Curve is another sharp hairpin on highway 107 between Glenville and Cullowhee. Cabbage was widely grown in the 1920s and later, making a living for many folks in the area. Nowadays, a number of the cabbage fields grow Christmas trees. The story of this curve's name is that a truck loaded with cabbage overturned while making that sharp turn, dumping cabbages everywhere. More recently, this spring, another truck, loaded with a different product, overturned there. http://www.thesylvaherald.com/history/article_8272992c-a5bd-11ea-ba08-773d906c2ffa.html