The Memories Within These Walls

The Howell Family House | Mitchell County, NC | c. 1880s This old house in the mountains of North Carolina hasn’t always looked this way, like so many other homes of the era, having been adapted and expanded over the years. And while her years are showing, underneath a tattered facade is the story of the Howell family who raised generations on this land. James C. Howell & Sarah Anne Brinkley James Calvin Howell was born in 1832 in Yancey County (later Mitchell County), North Carolina. His father Thomas Howell was a farmer and James worked the land from childhood… CONTINUE READING…