Our Waynesville Personalities Include:

The “General Schwartzkopf” of his day.

Most eminent British astronomer – why was he in Waynesville?

She loans her brother $60 – learn what he does with it!

Find out how false teeth saved this famous abolitionist’s life.

He found the country’s first (& only?) cure for drunkenness.

Underestimating the “power of women,” he lost his business.

Local resident runs for President – and dies in cherry tree.

How did our doctors predict the future by head’s size & shape?

Fearless namesake of Navy destroyers is destroyed by his suspicions!

 Why would local family make New York Times 10 straight days?

This “native son” was physician, writer, governor, railroad builder,
founder of city and Northwestern University