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Author: Dave Tabler

iron tube across yahoola river
April 25, 2018 Georgia / Gold mining / Legal profession

Managing the business end of Gold Fever in Dahlonega

The Dahlonega gold rush was the original, and it kicked off 21 years before the California event we usually associate with that phrase.

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FiddleKicks Womens Clogging Ensemble with closeup of clogging shoes in foreground
April 24, 2018 Dancing

Appalachian clog dancing

Clogging is an expressive style of American dance with origins in the folk dances of the British Isles, Africa, and pre-Columbian America.

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April 23, 2018 Grocery industry / Virginia

I took to the dry goods line

Groceries were from all different places. Some I bought from wholesale grocers in Stanton. Some from different places in this state.

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Greenville cotton mill Judson Mills
April 20, 2018 Cotton mills / South Carolina

Cotton mills move upcountry

The textile industry grew quickly after 1880, and SC was one of the leading textile-producing states nationally for the next 40 years.

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middlesboro golf club collage
April 19, 2018 Kentucky / Sports

The oldest continuously played golf course in the US

Middlesboro Country Club’s golf course is the oldest continuously played course in the United States, the second oldest course in the nation.

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