Village of Flat Rock Quilt
The Village of Flat Rock quilt was created as a group endeavor to highlight the history of Flat Rock and hangs in Village Hall. Several local artisans collaborated to re-create the history of Flat Rock in fabric and thread. The quilt is comprised of 23 panels - several of which depict famous Flat Rock homes.
The following descriptions of those panels were written by noted Flat Rock historian, Louise Howe Bailey. You can read the full description of the quilt here.
About the time of Baring’s arrival in Flat Rock, Judge Mitchell King, a Scotsman then living in Charleston, traveled to Tennessee in the interest of a proposed railroad linking the southern seaboard with navigable waters of the West. During a few days’ rest at the Flat Rock Inn, King found the health of a member of his family so greatly improved that he immediately purchased land and arranged to have a summer home built, calling it Argyle after his wife’s ancestral home in Scotland. King continued to acquire land, much of it for the price of twenty-five cents an acre, until he owned four thousand acres. In 1841, he settled the issue of where the seat of Henderson County would be placed by donating fifty acres for the town of Hendersonville.