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Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

Remembering Turner’s Spring on the old State Road

Turner’s Spring, located on State Road H912 1/4 mile west of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, has been a refreshing, cold water, wayside tarrying place for ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Thursday, August 29, 2013 5:54 pm

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Honey bees in peach trees

The abundance of rain this summer has subdued the usual, bustling activity of gathering peaches, and I find myself remembering the blooming season more vividly ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, August 14, 2013 9:01 am

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For some, like John Campbell, the uncivil war never ended

John (called John the younger) Campbell, second child of John Landrum and Nancy Williams Campbell, was born in 1838. His brother, William Francis Campbell, was ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 10:16 pm

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Master gunsmith, carpenter, Baptist preacher

Marcus Lafayette Davis, son of Morgan and Ellie Lindsey Davis, was born June 10, 1836, in Greenville County. At age 21, he married Mary Dunagan, ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:54 am

Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

Dandelions once were staple foodstuffs for people

Before dandelions became the scourge of well-manicured lawns and picture-perfect, equestrian pastures, the rugged, colorful and masterful plants were staple foodstuffs of our ancestors. Some ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:58 pm

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Hogback and Glassy Mountains headwater four rivers in Dark Corner

The earliest settlers to the upper Spartanburg District of South Carolina and Cherokee Nation territory, now known as the northeastern corner of present-day Greenville County ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, May 8, 2013 8:57 am

Twice Told Tales of the Dark Corner - Dean Campbell

Hogback and Glassy Mountains headwater four rivers in Dark Corner

The earliest settlers to the upper Spartanburg District of South Carolina and Cherokee Nation territory, now known as the northeastern corner of present-day Greenville County ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, May 7, 2013 7:00 pm

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Singing families chose ballad as their theme song

Dark Corner families that had two or more members, who  blended in close harmony when singing old ballads and spiritual ballads/hymns, invariably chose a particular ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:34 am

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Ward infant killed during war between distillers

During the fiercest fighting between illicit distillers themselves and Revenue Agents during the 1870s and 1880s, a number of innocent people were killed or severely ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Tuesday, April 9, 2013 9:35 am

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One moonshiner trained steers to help in his operation

One of the less widely known tales of the Dark Corner is the one about an unnamed, yet enterprising, moonshiner in the old Terry Creek ... Read more

by Dean Campbell, Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:51 am

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