1900 Chicasaw Inn opens in Edneyville.

1900 First street lights come to Hendersonville.

1901 Hendersonville Graded School opens and city school district forms.

1901 Blue Ridge Lime Company organized.

1901 East Flat Rock First Baptist Church forms. Early 1900s also sees the formation of Fruitland United Methodist Church (1906), Etowah United Methodist Church (1907), Balfour Baptist (1908), Locust Grove Baptist, Bob’s Creek Baptist (Green River) and Union Hill Baptist (Dana).

1902 Rural routes begin in county to deliver mail. First rural route was in Fletcher. Small post offices begin to close.

1903 Town of Saluda is given to Polk County by an act of the state General Assembly. Part of the city limits of Saluda remain in Henderson County.

1903 School system receives money for libraries. Six schools open libraries.

1903 Development of Laurel Park begins by William A. Smith, Judge Columbus Mills Pace and James M. Waldrop. A “dummy” rail line is extended to Laurel Park

1903 WNC Fair is organized in Laurel Park with P.F. Patton as president.

1904 The Hendersonville Power and Light Company forms, later known as Blue Ridge Power and Light. A dam is built on Big Hungry River.

1905 A new courthouse is built. This is known today as the Historic Courthouse.

1905 Commercial Bank of Hendersonville opens. In 1907 it becomes known as Wanteska Trust and 1st National Bank and in 1913 the name is changed to the 1st Bank and Trust.

1907 Skyland Hosiery Company is built in East Flat Rock. This later becomes known as the Chipman-La Crosse Hosiery Mill. The county’s first mill town begins.

1907 Green River Manufacturing Company builds a textile mill. A mill town forms in Tuxedo. This later becomes the J.P. Stevens Co.

1908 East Flat Rock Post Office opens.

1908 Citizens Bank of Hendersonville opens.

1908 There are 225 telephones in operation in the town of Hendersonville.

1908 John Grant of Edneyville is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

1908-1909 Osceola Lake Inn opens in the Valley Hill community.

1909 Lennox Park opens in Hendersonville with amusement rides. The Salola Inn opens on Sugarloaf Mountain.

1910 George Vanderbilt sells part of his forest tract, including that in Mills River, to the national government – Pisgah National Forest.

1910 Peoples National Bank opens.

1910 Wayside Inn opens on Butt Mountain in East Flat Rock-Zirconia area.

1910 Train depot is built at Zirconia (serves Tuxedo).

1910 Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church buy land on Howard Gap Road near Fletcher, Naples and Hoopers Creek. Fletcher Academy is founded. Group opens Mountain Sanitarium. In 1927, the hospital becomes Mountain Sanitarium and Hospital. In 1976, the name is changed to Fletcher Hospital. Today, this is Park Ridge Hospital. The Fletcher Seventh-day Adventist Church forms. Later a grammar school is opened, Captain Gilmer.

1910 The first summer camp opens in the county at Laurel Park. It’s a camp for boys. This camp later moves to Osceola Lake, then to the South Mills River area, where it was known as Camp Blue Ridge.

1911 Patton Hospital is organized. The hospital is dedicated in 1913 in the Hyman Heights neighborhood of Hendersonville.

1911 Board of Trade organizes as an association of businesses. Later it is known as the Merchants Association. This was the forerunner of today’s Henderson County Chamber of Commerce.

1911 Ground was broken for a new Hendersonville Post Office at the corner of Fourth Avenue West and Church Street. This is what is today known as the Federal Building on Fourth Avenue West.

1911 Fassifern School for Girls opens at Fleming Street and U.S. 25 North.

1912 Hendersonville has a baseball team. By the 1930s, several industrial leagues form in the county.

1912 Rosa Edwards School is built. Today this is the administrative building of the Henderson County School System.

1912 Ottoray Canning Co. forms in Dana by Jonathan Case. The company produces cans of beans, tomatoes, potatoes, apples, peaches, pears, blackberries and other fruits and vegetables to the tune of 38,000 cans per day.

1913 The No. 2 Dam is built on the Big Hungry River. Henderson County was the first in Western North Carolina to be supplied by water-driven electricity and to have power before and after the Flood of 1916. In 1917, the company becomes Home Electric Co. Later, it is known as Blue Ridge Power and Light.

1913 Summer Homes Committee in St. Petersburg, Fla., buys land for a “summer colony,” known as Mountain Home, on an estate in the old Hillgirt community.

1913 Freeze-Bacon Hosiery Corp. opens in the Lennox Park section of Hendersonville. In 1926, the Wing Paper Box Co. opens at the site on Whitted Street. In 1989, this company becomes Federal Paper Board and moves to East Flat Rock.

1913 Blue Ridge School for Boys begins. The private school for boys continues until the early 1970s. The site of the school is where the Blue Ridge Mall is located. There is a monument in the mall noting the site.

1914 The first public library opens in Hendersonville with Carnegie grant funds. First librarian was Mrs. Norman Sandifer (wife of the head of Blue Ridge School for Boys). Annie Sample later becomes the librarian for 30 years.

1914 N.C. Cooperative Extension Service opens a Henderson County Extension Center.

1914 Garbage collection begins in Hendersonville.

1915 Fire destroys the St. Johns Hotel in Hendersonville and scorches the courthouse. This was the largest fire in the town’s history.

1915 Thomas F. Turner, owner of the Esmeralda Inn in Bat Cave, gets the World Film Co. to make a movie in Bat Cave, “Meliss.”

1915 Mountain Home Inn opens.

1915 Grey Hosiery Mill begins operation in Hendersonville on Grove Street.

1916 Flood of 1916. This is the county’s worst natural disaster. The total number of deaths is not known.

1916 Grace Lutheran Church is the first Lutheran church in Henderson County. The original church stands at the corner of Seventh Ave. W. and Church Street.

1916 Pisgah National Forest is the first national forest in the Eastern United States.

1916-24 Carolina Military and Naval Academy opens at the Highland Lake in Flat Rock.

1917-18 World War I. About 1,000 men from Henderson County served in the war. The total of men who died as a direct result of the war is 17.

1917-20 Influenza epidemics sweep county. Many people died. The total number is not known.

1918 Toms Park opens in Hendersonville, named for Capt. Marion Columbus Toms.

1918 First bus line to Asheville begins operation.