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Description
This article shares personal recollections of everyday life in Shelby and Cleveland County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It includes memories of childhood swimming at Chapel’s Bend on the Broad River, handmade clothing from flour sacks, and colorful community figures such as “Aunt Liz” Green. The narrative also describes early electric lighting trips to Black’s Station, rural home routines before modern plumbing, smallpox outbreaks, and the old courthouse used for meetings, schools, and spelling matches.
Publication Date
6-8-1950
City
Shelby, NC
Keywords
Will Harris, Carl Webb, Pat McBrayer, Dr. Iverson V. McBrayer, Veva McFarland Armour, Liz Green, Oliver Anthony, Hugh G. Miller Sr., Dr. W. J. T. Miller, Fell Babington, Virginia Ann Stockton Elliott, Oliver Beam Elliott, Bessie Finch, Mary Cabaniss, H. F. Schenck, Lily Moore, John F. Schenck, Addie Gardner, J. A. Anthony, Buck Hardin, Sam Gidney, Chapel’s Bend, Broad River, Seaboard Air Line Railroad depot, Black’s Station, Blacksburg, Shelby, Kings Mountain, smallpox
Contributors
Fay Webb Gardner Collection in the Gardner-Webb University Archives
Recommended Citation
Jones, Mamie, "1950, June 8 - Cleveland County Early Days" (1950). Cleveland County Early Days Newspaper Column. 53.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/fay-webb-gardner-cleveland-county-early-days-newspaper-column/53