Watauga County North Carolina Part of the American History & Genealogy Project
It is colder in Watauga both summer and winter than in any other county of the State, probably,
with the exception of Ashe, Alleghany, Avery and Haywood. The �cold Saturday� was February 8, 1835. The date of
the Big Snow cannot be fixed, except that on the 2d and 3d days of December, 1886. But old people remember hearing
of a snow that was so deep that all fences were obliterated from the landscape, and deer were slaughtered by the score.
On the 5th of June, 1858, corn knee-high was killed in this county and all fruits and vegetables, while white-oak trees
between Boone and Jefferson were killed outright, some of their stumps being still visible. There was a frost at
Blowing Rock July 26, 1876, while on February 13, 1899, the thermometer went to fourteen degrees below zero. On the
15th of May, 1835, there was snow while land was being laid off for corn and sugar water was being boiled for maple
syrup on Brushy Fork.
Source: A History of Watauga County, North Carolina with Sketches of Prominent Families, By John Preston Arthur,
Richmond: Everett Waddey Company, 1915
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