The Rotary Club of Hendersonville was organized in September of 1927 -just past the middle of that decade that has become known as the "Roaring Twenties", just after the crest of the land boom that had swept through Hendersonville and Henderson County, had broken, and just before the onset of the Great Depression. The charter members elected C. D. Weeks as the club's first President.

For the first few years the luncheon meetings of the Club were held in the dining room of the old Hodgewell Hotel at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Church Street, Hendersonville's finest, later renamed the Bowen. It is now gone. When the Skyland Hotel was built the Club elected to hold the meetings there. Later it moved a couple of blocks away, to the Chariot cafeteria, where it now meets.

The club frequently has unpaid speakers at its weekly noon meetings, many of whom are quite informative and entertaining. One of these speakers was Carl Sandburg, distinguished poet, biographer of Abraham Lincoln, and a local resident, who was accustomed to being substantially compensated for speaking engagements. Nothing having been said about compensation on this occasion, when introduced by the Club President, Mr. Sandburg rose to his feet, bowed three times and sat down. What followed is not recorded.