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Tales from the South Carolina upstate : where the cotton & peaches grow

Title: Tales from the South Carolina upstate : where the cotton & peaches grow / Nancy Rhyne.
Author: Rhyne, Nancy, 1926-
Publication: Charleston, SC : History Press, 2007.

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Description

126 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Excerpts from oral histories collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the upstate region of South Carolina in the 1930s.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
Anecdotes
History
Local history
Anecdotes.

Contents

Alex Golightly's funeral -- Big Henry -- The beginning of iron in the upstate -- Pa's chillun -- Goober Jack, the runaway slave -- Keowee -- An unknown traveler -- The best rice crop -- The mother of Clemson College -- First cotton planter in Spartanburg County -- The orphan boy -- Piedmont Mills Museum -- The Textile Industrial Institute -- From cotton milling to Converse College -- Shadrach Inman was a hero -- The upstate's Westminster Abbey -- Where the wild horses were -- Taking the cotton to Charleston -- General Anderson's romance -- About the Indians -- The Indian war woman -- A cherokee myth -- Tamassee's wisdom -- The Indian legend of Paris Mountain -- The Cherokee rose -- Caesar's Head kept vigil -- The most outstanding mountain -- The legend of Issaqueena Falls -- Mr. Cathcart's collection -- The wagoners -- Stumphouse Mountain -- The girl who couldn't keep a secret -- Earthquake religion -- McCravy home scene of Ku Klux Klan activities -- Historic Keowee Trail -- Fort Prince George was in gunshot distance of Keowee -- Stumphouse Mountain and the uncompleted tunnel -- Jack Millwood's tower of joy -- The peach industry in the South Carolina upstate -- Gaffney -- Gaffney slave narrative -- Walking tours of the Clemson College area -- Walhalla was founded by Charlestonians -- The last spot in the West where the whites and Indians traded -- The ring fight -- Table Rock State Park -- Officially dead -- Place of mulberries -- Cuisine of old Spartanburg -- Native dishes peculiar to section -- A riding master came to Spartanburg -- Who was Shadrack? -- The old fiddler -- Crafts in Greenville County -- A fair forest -- Fort Thicketty -- A lonely grave -- I was what was known as an outside child: narrative of a former slave -- Count Culbertson -- Greenville's Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children -- When cotton was king -- John Ewing Calhoun's old rifle -- Aunt Jane Smith heard a ghost -- People on the Wofford campus were fine folks -- The well that was locked up at night -- The bitter cold Battle of the Great Canebreak.

ISBN

9781596293458
1596293454

LCCN

2007035333

OCLC

ocn171287579
171287579
SCSB-9450858

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library