1952, May 21 - Cleveland County Early Days

Authors

Mamie Jones

Files

Description

This article announces the dedication of the John R. Dover Memorial Library at Gardner-Webb Junior College in Boiling Springs and highlights John Randolph Dover’s contributions to Cleveland County as a leader in the textile industry, creating worker’s villages, building churches, and schools that shaped community development. The piece also briefly recounts his birth in 1858 near Beason’s Creek, South Carolina.

Publication Date

5-21-1952

City

Shelby, NC

Keywords

John Randolph Dover, James Dover, Amanda Nichols, John R. Dover Memorial Library, Gardner-Webb College, Beason’s Creek, Dover Mill, Textiles, Mill Villages

Contributors

Fay Webb Gardner Collection in the Gardner-Webb University Archives

Recommended Citation

Jones, Mamie, "1952, May 21 - Cleveland County Early Days" (1952). Cleveland County Early Days Newspaper Column. 58.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/fay-webb-gardner-cleveland-county-early-days-newspaper-column/58