Over Labor Day weekend, I took a trip to Western North Carolina. With the devastating floods caused by Hutticane Helene, I thought I would share some of the beautiful places I photographed.

The Webster Baptist Church sits on a bluff above the Tuckasegee River in Webster, North Carolina. The river flooded, but I don’t yet know how Webster fared.

The church was built in 1900. Joseph and Lawrence Cowan, a local father and son cabinetmaker duo, built the original furniture, which is still in use today.

It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.