Tryon Biography
The Worldly Sassoons
How such an unusual Jewish couple, she born in India and he in Malaysia, migrated to distant Tryon is a plot-line a novelist Continue Reading
Emma Payne Erskine
As much as any other person, this remarkable woman was responsible for making little Tryon a cultural center with a national Continue Reading
Burnley Weaver: 1930s Modernism and Gollifox Press
A remarkable parade of creative personalities strolled through Tryon during the Thirties. Writers and editors. Dramatists and Continue Reading
They Met in St. Louis
St. Louis was the nation’s fourth biggest city, and boasted the world’s largest railroad station, when it hosted the 1904 Summer Continue Reading
Homer Ellertson
This versatile artist built his reputation while living and working in Tryon. After studying at Pratt Institute and in ateliers in France, Continue Reading
Jennie Smedley, Outstanding Teacher
In 1898 the one-room Tryon Public School welcomed a remarkable new teacher, Miss Jane A. Smedley. Her personal influence Continue Reading
Margaret Lathrop Law: Writer
People still alive recall worldly Miss Law briskly going about Tryon. Widely traveled and keenly observant, she was “born to Continue Reading
William Laval Miller: 1905 Mapmaker
The profession of civil engineering was honored early in South Carolina history. Before the Civil War the state invested heavily Continue Reading
John Sylvan Brown
John Sylvan Brown found himself centered into the art scene of Tryon later in life with airy depictions of the soft mountain Continue Reading
Edward Waldo Emerson
During his regular winter sojourns to escape the harsh Massachusetts winters, the son of essayist and poet Ralph Continue Reading
Margaret Morley
Margaret Warner Morley grew up and was educated in Brooklyn, New York. During the period it was America’s fourth Continue Reading
Amelia Watson, Landscape Artist
From a painting dated 1892 belonging to the Connecticut State Library, Amelia Montague Watson is documented as Continue Reading
Louis Rowell
Many people have visited Tryon and raved over its charming scenery, but Mr. Rowell has portrayed its full beauty with Continue Reading
Robert Lincoln Denison
Born in Portland, Maine, Denison was educated as an architect at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His father, Continue Reading
