In the Beginning...
September 25, 1953 at the Community Building in Marion, NC the first meeting of the McDowell County Historical Society was held and in attendance was some of McDowell's prominent citizens. The meeting presided over by Miss Ruth Greenlee welcomed Clarence Griffin a member of the N.C. Department of Archives and a History Author from Rutherford County. The first meeting was said to have established the foundation for the preservation of all of McDowell County's history.