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Historic Webster is a newsletter of the Webster Historical Society, Inc., created at the Society’s founding in 1974. The publication helped to serve the Society's mission of collecting and preserving the history of Webster, North Carolina. Webster, established in 1851, was the original county seat for Jackson County.VOLUME III, NUMBER I The following letter from W. D. Sylva, the man for whom Miss Mae Hampton, later Mrs. Mor­gan Davis, named Sylva, when she was a little girl, tells the story of the naming of the town, how it came to be named Sylva, and throws a great deal of light upon its beginnings. Those who study it, will know why Mill Street is called thus, since it runs from a point near where Judge Cannon's Mills, on Scott's Creek were located, to the square around the Southern Rail­way Station. Many people have forgotten that Capt. Enloe once had a tannery on the branch that runs down from the mountain by the Webster Cemetery, in front of Judge Cannon's old home, re­ferred to by Mr. Sylva, and in front of the old home of Capt. Enloe, now owned and occupied by Mrs. 0. B. Coward. This is the reason that the branch is referred to in old deeds as "Tanyard Branch." Cleburne, Texas, 313 Shaw Ave. Postmaster, Sylva, N. C. I am sending you some history that may surprise you, unless you are 50 or 60 years of age. Jan. 6, 1879, if I am not mistaken, about dusk I walked...

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