Including a Pile of Rocks

Description: This book "sheds light on the Dark Corner" as the author reflects on the history of the earliest white inhabitants of Glassy and Hogback Mountains from 1784-1899. Find out why the name the "Dark Corner" was coined and learn more about some early inhabitants of these hills who were Revolutionary War soldiers. You will be captivated by intriguing local events and how they affected three generations of the Senter (Center) family in the Glassy/Hogback Mountain area of Greenville County. There are lively details of their neighborhood's establishment of churches and schools, and of their volunteering and serving in the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the Civil War. Details are given about an Indian path's conversion into a State road through the community, affording opportunity for employment and a greater association with the outside world, even until today as visitors come to see the historic arched Poinsett Bridge. Learn how these immigrants, both Scot-Irish and English wove their community together by their farming, log home building, entrepreneurship and their distilling.The author, Anne K McCuen, served as Greenville Co, SC Historic Preservation Commission Chair, Chair of that Commission's Committee to Preserve the Poinsett Bridge, was Program Chairman of The Greenville County Historical Society and chairman of the Collection Committee of that Society, sat on the Board of the City of Greenville, SC Board of Architectural Review, was a member of the Upcountry Friends Historic Preservation Committee, the West End Association Board and the West End Neighborhood Board. She is the author and/or coauthor of several books of genealogical abstracts of local church and court records. She was for decades commissioned to conduct various early land title and family genealogy searches.

Price: 37 USD

Location: Morganton, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-09-02T14:16:55.000Z

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