The Goins sisters — Foster, Brenda Whittington and Sheila Goins — can trace their family roots in Junaluska back to 1832. The Junaluskans gathered in Foster’s home in the days following the ...

In Black Appalachia, a small, 200-year-old community of descendants of enslaved people, Junaluska, is struggling after ...

BOONE - A quarter-mile from downtown Boone, Junaluska Road weaves in between the homes of one of Appalachia’s oldest Black communities. After Tropical Storm Helene, the steep and windy road is ...

BOONE - Cross-stitched Bible verses decorate the wood-paneled living room walls in a small, historic piece of Black Appalachia — the Western North Carolina mountaintop community of “Junaluska.” ...

Junaluska Elementary is a public school located in Waynesville, NC, which is in a fringe rural setting. The student population of Junaluska Elementary is 447 and the school serves K-5. At ...