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Gold first discovered in Greenville County in 1802
From the time gold was first discovered in Greenville County in 1802, every so often folks in the ...
Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell
Our land of Twice-told Tales is threatened
The Dark Corner area of upper Greenville and Spartanburg Counties is particularly under attack by proposed routes of ...
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Bony Hampton Peace was communications giant
One man, whose name is synonymous with the growth of the communications industry in America, is Bony Hampton ...
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Rev. Isaac Lemmons delivered sermons differently
The Reverend Isaac Lemmons was born in the late 1700s. He began his ministry in 1816 and preached ...
Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell
Who were ‘skulkers’ and who were ‘deserters’?
The Dark Corner area was a Unionist stronghold, from 1832, when Nullifiers first coined the name for the ...
Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell
Convict guard Dock M. Garrett killed during road work gang escape in the 1920s
Dock M. Garrett, at age 54, was killed by a heavy hit over the head with a shovel ...
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Jewell Weed…old time cure for poison ivy
Lots of calamine lotion, cold compresses, antihistamines and oral prednisone or other type of corticosteroid are the modern ...
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Deputy Marshal Ledford killed at birth of Landrum
In the mid-1870’s, U.S. Deputy Marshal J.S. Ledford was a young, up and coming law officer for Greenville ...
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Merrittsville…now only a nostalgic memory
The first recorded mention of the North Saluda River valley area of the Dark Corner was in a 1785 ...
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Mid-March begins the wildflower explosion
Throughout the Dark Corner, and surrounding hills of North and South Carolina, March begins an explosive harbinger of ...
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