Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: South Carolina

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South Carolinians have known about the mineral springs of Glenn Springs, in the Blue Ridge foothills near Spartanburg, for centuries.

For the last three or four years, or until the middle of 1920, the cotton mills passed through a very prosperous period.

Each June 2, the old soldiers of the Confederacy met at Frances Hagood Mauldin’s home for a parade and picnic.

For many years Ira Butts and neighbor Clifton Pitts had been arguing over the boundary line of a small piece of property.

My cousin had a row with a pig. This pig refused to eat when he came down to feed it. It pawed the ground & ran to the other side of the sty.

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