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The Henderson County Curb Market The distinguished panel of judges stated, “This unusual history of a curb market reads like a reunion of sellers and buyers from the past to the present. It has been expertly researched and lovingly written by an author who has an affectionate relationship with the place and the people associated with it. It woke us up to the fact that nothing should be taken for granted historically, and even a curb market has a history and one worthy of recording.”
In 1922, local historian Frank L. FitzSimons, Sr., wrote a letter to the editor of the Hendersonville (NC) News proposing a centralized marketing location for farmers. He envisioned an area of commerce set up along the curb of a downtown street, a convenient place for housewives to shop and farmers to sell the “truck crops” grown on their farms. This centralization would provide an alternative to peddling, the standard but wearisome practice of the day. A movement began that led to the establishment of the Henderson County Farmers Mutual Curb Market in 1924.
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