Dating back to 16th century England and Scotland, Presbyterian and Reformed church-goers could only attend communion by receiving a communion token...
Minting A Tradition: Communion Tokens
Author: phcmontreat
Independent non-profit organization providing a learning center, research library, museum exhibits, and Presbyterian & missionary archive since 2008.
Trains, Timbers, & Tourists: The Story of the Mt. Mitchell Railroad
1911 marks the year that plans began on a new railroad line, which would be known as the Mt. Mitchell Railroad, running from Black Mountain to Mt. Mitchell. Read more...
Five Things To Do at the PHC This Summer (2022)
You’re visiting Montreat this summer and you’re looking for a place to cool off from the summer heat and spend an hour or two relaxing… Well visit the Presbyterian Heritage Center! Not only are we equipped with air conditioning, we are also stock-full of facts and history to peak your curious mind. Here are five… Continue reading Five Things To Do at the PHC This Summer (2022)
Treasures From the Attic
“Treasures from the Attic” is a show-and-tell session – in-person at the Presbyterian Heritage Center or via Zoom meeting. The PHC will host four (4) such sessions over the next few weeks. The Show-and-tell will be on Wednesdays, 10:30 – 11:30 am on May 19th, 26th. June 9th and June 23rd. You can just watch… Continue reading Treasures From the Attic
Behind The Scenes – Part 3
Collecting For Church Covid-19 Archive We are living in a perilous times, as did the American people during October 1918. That month, the second wave of the misnamed Spanish Flu closed churches, businesses and indeed, all of society. With uncanny similarities to the 1918 pandemic, the 2020 Covid-19 led the historians at the Presbyterian Heritage… Continue reading Behind The Scenes – Part 3
Behind-the-Scenes – 2
Do you ever wonder what we do at the Presbyterian Heritage Center, while temporarily closed to the public due to the covid-19 virus threat? On Sunday night we held a Zoom cast of a presentation & hymn sing on “C.S. Lewis & Hymns” by Austin Theological Seminary Professor & Musician Eric Wall. Eric played in… Continue reading Behind-the-Scenes – 2
The Vicar’s Daughter & The Mustard Club
Dorothy Sayers' Recipe Book for The Mustard Club, c. 1926. Dorothy L. Sayers was a writer extraordinaire – a friend to C.S. Lewis – but who reaped success in many endeavors well ahead of Lewis and the other Oxford Inklings. Before Sayers took up a highly successful career in mystery crime novel writing, playwriting, film… Continue reading The Vicar’s Daughter & The Mustard Club
Behind The Scenes – Part 1
Native Americans A newspaper clipping describing some of thefirst missionary efforts. At the Presbyterian Heritage Center in Montreat, the staff is very busy during this stay-at-home phase. We are preparing for Fall 2020 exhibits – researching, designing, writing, calling, emailing and more from home to line up rare illustrations, period photographs, colonial and early American… Continue reading Behind The Scenes – Part 1
The Montreat-Washington Connection
Soaring above the modern skyline of Washington, DC, a stone-carved band of angels playing Scottish bagpipes adorn the tops of the two west towers at the Washington National Cathedral. A plaster sculpture showing the model used in the carving of the angel piper is in the Presbyterian Heritage Center (PHC) lobby in Montreat. This is… Continue reading The Montreat-Washington Connection
Mightier Than the Sword
Led by the Rev. Dr. Alexander J. McKelway, 7 reformers and two children were ushered into the White House office of President William H. Taft on Monday, April 9, 1912. Taft picked up the gold pen on his desk and dipped it into the inkwell. With a few strokes, he approved the first federal legislation… Continue reading Mightier Than the Sword
Art, Facts, and Artifacts 