Rest of story on Butter Street

Thanks to Mrs. Libby Loftis Vatalaro of Landrum, the saga of Miss Jane Turner’s produce route being the impetus for the naming of Butter Street ... Read more

Favorite ballad in Dark Corner

Ballads covered every subject, including incarceration. A favorite ballad in the Dark Corner was not written about life in the region. Its popularity here came ... Read more

Warrant serving sometimes met with ambush

Even though Greenville County High Sheriff P.D. Gilreath had an excellent rapport with most of the mountain people in the Dark Corner (he did not ... Read more

Paneuma Barton of Glassy Mountain gave her life to China

Barton families were among the first to settle the Glassy Mountain area, once land grants to former Revolutionary War soldiers began in 1784. Paneuma Barton’s ... Read more

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  1. Ghostly music from a stringless banjo, a favorite ghost story
  2. Ballads told of unrequited love
  3. Scarifying and other natural remedies
  4. The story of the killing of Thomas Lindsey by Isaac Ballew
  5. Shankle’s … Dark Corner’s second private school
  6. Rev. Thomas J. Earle — outstanding minister, educator
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