Hidden History of the Dark Corner

Mr. Drew Hines

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781467156455
• eBook ISBN:
  9781540260178
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

The Dark in the Dark Corner Years ago, when travelers to northern Greenville County asked a local where the Dark Corner was, invariably their reply was, "Just a little further up the road." In those days few people wanted to admit they lived in that much storied and much maligned part of the county known as the Dark Corner. The Dark Corner in those days was legendary for its moonshine, murder and mayhem. This is the story of that well-known region. We travel back to the Dark Corner's earliest days when its only human inhabitants were the Cherokee, and we move into the present where horse farms and multi-million-dollar homes dot the countryside that once contained moonshine stills and cornfields.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. A Tale of Two Bridges
• 2. On Top of Old Hogback
• 3. A Story of True Friendship
• 4. A Mountain Boy’s Life Story
• 5. Big Alec
• 6. The Murder of a Revenuer
• 7. Thunder in the Mountains
• 8. A Jail Break to Remember
• 9. A Tender Farewell
• 10. The Boy from Horse Creek
• 11. Grinding Corn in the Dark Corner
• 12. The Hensley Burning
• 13. A Light in the Dark Corner
• 14. Trouble in a Jug
• 15. A Dark Corner Hero
• 16. Dickey’s Plantation
• 17. Shootout at Mountain Hill Church
• 18. Funerals in the Dark Corner
• 19. The Block House
• 20. Dark Corner Medicine
• 21. Dark Corner Fun
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Author