Appalachian History

Bartholomew Himmler established Cumberland MD’s first beer brewery ca. 1852. By the time the WPA produced its guide, ‘Cumberland beer’ was 88.

All the adornments that taste and money can afford

Walter Gassaway became Greenville’s most successful stock speculator in the 1920s. His mansion’s still the largest house in the Upstate.

In the summer of 1945, one white executive quietly, secretly, plotted an assault on baseball’s systematic practice of racial discrimination.

He knew that she was pure and being a child she and his children would get along pleasantly together.

Sang Run MD got its name from Gin Seng. At one time it grew here in abundance. There is still some scattered plants to be found.