Cattail Creek Historical Photo Gallery

Cattail Memories

Snapshots capturing Cattail Creek’s rich past.

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FEMA cleaned up around the Hall

The floor of the Hall after Helene

Community clean-up day at the Hall after Helene

2004 flood at Pesacola

Hurricane Fred, 2021

Hall raised, March 2026

70 or more Cattailers were helicoptered out in the days following Helene

· Cattail Cloggers win first prize at the Asheville Bascom Lamar Lunsford Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. Helen Atwood, Joe Baden and Karen Fitzgerald were on the team. Karen and Helen are in these pictures, as they practice on the Town Square.

Pipeline Trail (1969)

Hall circa 1940

Lower shaft, Isom Mine (2023 WNC Wildlife photo)

Old boys' camp where the Weller cabin now is

Cooking shack at Isom mine, 1969

Commissary safe

Downing/Nyegard Cabin

Pensacola Depot (photo courtesy Jim Baden)

(photo courtesy Jim Baden)

Hall kitchen after Helene

Community Hall Hall kitchen after Helene

Back of Hall after Helene

This photo taken by Keith Phillips towards the Weller house shows the water level of the creek the morning after Helene hit Cattail

This ad was in The State magazine in 1960. (photo courtesy Mark Huber)

The Bathtub in 1974

Danny and Louise Hensely

Painting of what is now Riverlife, by David Boone; see the forge on the left? RR repairs made there - this is now Riverlife. Notice the tracks go to the left of the store and 197 crosses the creek to the right.

Ford and Louise Hensley

Charlie Rathbone and Ben Weller

100 years later

David Boone in front ot the historic Nu-Wray Inn

Gone but not forgotten!

Charlie Rathbone. long-time caretaker for Cattail, lived here - old Sears house on the Austin farm.

Old mining equipment at the Isom Mine, 1969

Hunters on the Crest Trail, near Percy's peak, New Year's Day, 1970

Lee Riddle and Philip Hensley

Now the Austin farm, Charlie Rathbone - long-time caretaker of Cattail, lived here for many years.

Same house - Charlotte Weller took this photo, late 50s.

This is the famous waterfall that Sunny Schnupp and his girlfriend fell over many years ago. They survived - 80 feet!

Benson's celebrating our Right to Arm Bears at the annual 4th of July ATV parade

Annual 4th of July ATV Parade

2025 Annual Meeting, at the Pensacola VFD

Annual 4th of July ATV Parade

Community Volunteer Day at the Hall after Helene

Before the Internet and cable, our kids and grandkids played!! This is a "perforance" by Mathew Weller, from England, and Julia Weller, from Indiana.

This is still a favorite activity - that's Marie Weller, now lovmg in France, on the breezeway of the old Weller cabins, formerly the Threadgill boys camp.