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 ... Read more
Author: Dean Campbell - Page 6 | The Tryon Daily Bulletin
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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 ... Read more
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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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 ... Read more
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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 ... Read more
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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 ... Read more
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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 ... Read more
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‘Quaint’ mountain corn lore still persists
Many new residents to the Dark Corner area—from Northeastern and a few Midwestern regions particularly—continue to find some ... Read more
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