Robin S. Lattimore
Robin S. Lattimore is a historian who has spent over 20 years researching and recording the history of Rutherford County and the foothills region of western North Carolina. He was named the 2009-2010 Historian of the Year by the North Carolina Society of Historians.
Lattimore has written more than a dozen books on local and regional history. He has received the Willie Parker Peace NC History Book Award and the D.T. Smithwick Award for Journalism from the North Carolina Society of Historians. In 2008, Lattimore received the First Place Writing Award from the North Carolina Baptist State Convention. He has also received five writing awards from the NC Press Association.
Lattimore's books have been featured in Our State Magazine and other publications across North Carolina. He has also appeared on UNC-TV and WRAL-TV in Raleigh to discuss the gold mining and minting history of the foothills region.
In 2008, Lattimore was appointed as an Official Rutherford County Historian by the Board of Commissioners. He currently serves as President of the Rutherford County Historical Society, Chairman of the Rutherford County Historic Preservation Commission, Chairman of the Rutherford County Library Board of Trustees, and is a board member of the Cliffside Historical Society.
Lattimore earned his BS Degree in Historical and Cultural Research from Appalachian State University in 1991. His early professional training included an internship/field study program with the curator's office at Biltmore Estate, in Asheville, NC.
"Robin S. Lattimore is setting a standard of achievement that future historians will find difficult to surpass. He exhibits incredible energy and passion for preserving significant pieces of this state's wonderful story."
Elizabeth Bray Sherrill
President North Carolina Society of Historians, Inc.
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