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Headline: SC officials just established the largest conservation easement in history

Section: Nature

Date: November 7, 2025 by Moonville Mae

“In order to preserve the character and culture that we have, we must have some things that we can see and touch that do not change,” Gov. Henry McMaster Oct. 29, 2025 Speaking to a crowd of about 100 supporters, McMaster was praising the work of several governmental and non-profit groups for conserving over 62,000 acres of farmland, l...

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Headline: Reedy River Falls Chapter of Colonial Dames 17th Century has recognized two historic sites this year

Section: Celebrations

Date: October 10, 2025 by Moonville Mae

The first was the Piedmont YWCA Building which was celebrated on June 7th, in the Piedmont Community Building at 11 am. The YWCA was constructed by President Beattie of Piedmont Manufacturing Company for the women of the mill in 1908.  He chose to make the vacant Union Church the foundation of the structure and remodeled it to fit the needs of...

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Headline: Historic Intersection of Two Colonial Roads: Georgia Road and Augusta Road

Section: Local

Date: September 15, 2025 by Moonville Mae

Georgia Road and Augusta Road cross here in southwestern Greenville County and both trails were in use prior to the Revolutionary War in 1776.  These historic roads were initially trading paths of the Cherokee and early settlers.  The Georgia Road was the Lower Cherokee Trader’s Path which was later called the Upper Road or Piedmont...

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Headline: Jane Woods McClain given Stewardship Award for 35 years caring for Historic Rose Hill Cemetery

Section: Local

Date: July 9, 2025 by Moonville Mae

Jane McClain is so dedicated to preserving the resting place of the saints of Piedmont that Governor McMaster, Preservation South Carolina, and the State Office of Preservation presented her a State Stewardship award for her thirty-five years of service and care for Rose Hill Cemetery in Piedmont.  The ceremony was held at the South Carolina S...

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Headline: Moonville Mae and the Piedmont YWCA

Section: Celebrations

Date: June 10, 2025 by Moonville Mae

Union Church 1879 Piedmont Manufacturing Company, the pioneer textile of the upstate, was founded in 1874 by H.P. Hammett, an experienced textile man, having worked with his father-in-law at the Bates mill near Pelham prior to the War Between the States.  In 1876 Mill #1 began running sheeting, and there were about 75 houses in the villag...

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Headline: Piedmont Manufacturing Company’s Dams 1873 Forward

Section: Local

Date: May 7, 2025 by Moonville Mae

The pastoral backcountry was changed forever when H.P. Hammett realized the Great Shoals of the Saluda were perfect for a great textile mill on the Greenville side of the river. Times were hard for farming in the state after the War Between the States, and Hammett was looking for a way to revive the economy.  He began to plan for a modern tex...

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Headline: Moonville Mae Thinks About Two Presidents of the Twentieth Century

Section: Local

Date: January 17, 2025 by Moonville Mae

Does studying leaders help us understand who was good and who was bad?  The adage goes, “If we don’t learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it.”  Studying our leaders from the past gives us insight and understanding from a perspective of some distance.  I have a favorite leader in American history and have re...

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Headline: FALL IS AT HAND NOW

Section: Nature

Date: October 11, 2024 by Moonville Mae

The sun is noticeably rising to the south of my tree line and her rays are beginning to warm the slate of the sunroom floor.  My hummers are missing from the feeders, but the silence I felt in August is replaced by a more vocal crew of feathered friends and visitors.  It is a wonderful time with leaves floating down to cover the lawn as t...

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Headline: Moonville Mae is ready for autumn

Section: Nature

Date: September 10, 2024 by Moonville Mae

The sun is noticeably rising later and setting earlier.  Last week the nights were sweater cool, a welcome break from the dog days of summer.  Those refreshing mornings, as I gave my potted plants an invigorating drink, I noticed that all was quiet on the home front, almost alarmingly silent.  Not a bird was singing, not one. That t...

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Headline: Moonville Mae took a history trip with teens?!?

Section: Local

Date: August 9, 2024 by Moonville Mae

For several summers I have been lucky enough to take a short summer road trip with my granddaughter, now 16 and driving, my cousin, and her granddaughter, soon to be 14.  We’ve had some great trips and the girls always say they loved Chattanooga best.  It was great with the aquarium, caves, Rock City, and duck boat rides, but this y...

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Headline: Moonville Mae says historic research is a great activity on hot summer days, but brickwork is not!

Section: Local

Date: July 11, 2024 by Moonville Mae

Wondering about some part of your family or community history?  Well, it may be a good time for you to do a little research and find out the answers to your questions.  Online research is fun and easy on Ancestry or some other site, but getting out and taking it another step to the Carolina Room at the Greenville County Library or the res...

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Headline: Moonville Mae shares a traveling homeplace story and Durant's new Revolution program!

Section: Nature

Date: May 9, 2024 by Moonville Mae

Although my whole life has been grounded in Southern Greenville along US 25, my mother, Margaret Burnside Campbell, grew up in the little town of Troy, SC, where the Calhoun or Long Cane Massacre took place.  Troy was a thriving spot along a railroad from Greenwood to McCormick by the early 1900s, but her mother’s family had come to the ...

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Headline: Moonville Mae Taking Stock...

Section: Local

Date: March 11, 2024 by Moonville Mae

Sometimes I have to take stock.  I have a problem that I’ve contended with most of my seventy plus years.  I’m very much a learner, I’ve been told.  I love art and  craft, but I tend to appreciate the work of others.  I don’t have the patience to spend months on one creative project in order to ...

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Headline: Moonville Mae asks, "Do you like tea?"

Section: Local

Date: February 14, 2024 by Moonville Mae

Are you a tea connoisseur?  Do you want it iced, hot or both?  Sweet, unsweet, or half and half?  Is tea a southern thing?  Is tea grown in America?  If so, where? Then, how did tea come to America?  Is there a tea connection in the Upstate? Well, we southerners are tea lovers for sure!  Have you ordered tea in...

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Headline: Moonville Mae says Happy New Year!

Section: Commentary

Date: January 13, 2024 by Moonville Mae

It’s a New Year and new things are happening in Preservation!  All this is so exciting!   Here’s what’s going on! McCullough House Inn at Princeton owned by the Fork Shoals Historical Society is getting a facelift!  The 1812 structure needs its original handmade brick restored and repointed and the work has b...

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Headline: Preservation is growing across Greenville County!

Section: Commentary

Date: October 2, 2023 by Moonville Mae

Campbell's covered bridge painting This is MOONVILLE MAE again, and I want to share with you some information about a group I work with for the county and some of the things this group does for Greenville.  I am currently the Vice Chair of the Greenville County Historic Preservation Commission (GCHPC) which is appointed by County C...

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Headline: McCullough’s Cedarhurst restoration begins!

Section: Local

Date: September 4, 2023 by Moonville Mae

Fork Shoals Historical Society is restoring the 1812 inn at Princeton to its original look. You will notice the changes as you drive by. She is the oldest brick structure in Greenville County. We started on Friday, August 4th, by removing the additions added in the 1900s. The brick will be repointed starting in October thanks to Jay West, our state...

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Headline: Several Groups Continue Work On Preserving Our History

Section: Celebrations

Date: July 29, 2023 by Moonville Mae

Ann, Tammy, Ed, Lovelace School starts soon, the dog days of summer are upon us, high school football practice and marching band practice can be heard, the summer birds start migrating in the midst of all this as well.  Fall, my favorite time of year, is around the corner.  Southern Greenville has much beauty to enjoy year-round and ...

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Headline: Open House at the Piedmont Museum

Section: Celebrations

Date: June 2, 2023 by Moonville Mae

Preservation News  After receiving a South Carolina Regrant for purchasing collection storage materials in 2022 for September 2022 through May 2023, the volunteers at our history museum worked diligently to purchase the materials and catalogue the collections. This work has catapulted our museum’s research capabilities beyond ...

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Headline: The History of the Controversial State Flag of South Carolina

Section: Local

Date: May 2, 2023 by Moonville Mae

Dr. Anne Peden, Piedmont Historic Preservation Society South Carolina’s standard is one of the most recognizable flags in the nation with the iconic Palmetto tree and white crescent moon.  Or is it a moon?  What else could it be if not a moon?  It’s shining over our beloved Palmetto tree, isn’t it?  The tree t...

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Headline: South Carolina roads of importance to the Back Country prior to 1900

Section: Nature

Date: March 30, 2023 by Moonville Mae

The Piedmont Museum volunteers have been delving into the Payne/Garrison/Tarrant Collection and finding historic information about the area of western Greenville County that has provided new revelations concerning our ancient roads. Plats dating back to the 1790s often show roads passing across property and creeks and rivers as well. These provide ...

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Headline: Greenville’s history coming alive

Section: Commentary

Date: March 11, 2023 by Moonville Mae

The Story of Greenville County, our history, is vital to the understanding of who we are.  As today, commerce has always led our story.  There is no separating Greenville’s story from our beginnings as a trade route to the interior of the colonies and on to a focused drover’s road from over the mountains to the Atlantic during...

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Headline: The Jonquils are Blooming at Cedarhurst Portending a Great 2023

Section: Local

Date: February 20, 2023 by Moonville Mae

Fork Shoals Historical Society is privileged to share news of the upcoming restoration of our historic house/inn along Augusta Road in southern Greenville County.  The McCullough House is the oldest brick structure in the county and possibly the Upstate, built in 1812 for an Irish immigrant who became a major plantation owner and father of a d...

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Headline: Moonville Mae Shares History in the Family

Section: Local

Date: January 24, 2023 by Moonville Mae

My doll from Aunt Lizzie Aunt Lizzie's baby showerdoll is 80 years old Heritage is a key part of all of our lives.  We are who we are because of our families who raised us.  And as we look back through the generations of our ancestors, we can see the ties to who we are today.  This came clearer to me this past fall when a c...

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Headline: Moonville Mae says Merry Christmas from Piedmont!

Section: Commentary

Date: December 20, 2022 by Moonville Mae

Piedmont Historical Preservation Society is participating in the Duke Power World of Energy Festival of Trees at the Oconee site.  Visit the World of Energy in December and vote for our tree to win a prize.  We need your support as we restore the Piedmont 1908 YWCA.  Check our Facebook page for more information about our restoration ...

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Headline: Piedmont Historical Preservation Society working to preserve Textile history

Section: Celebrations

Date: November 14, 2022 by Moonville Mae

Piedmont Historical Preservation Society has been blessed to oversee a collection of textile historical documents and artifacts and the person leading the work to catalogue these treasures is historian and archivist, Joe Hursey.  During the efforts to preserve our documents, Joe finds information about the mill that excites him and leads him t...

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Headline: Constitution Day Celebrated by DAR

Section: Celebrations

Date: October 17, 2022 by Moonville Mae

DAR members withFountain Inn Mayor G.P. McLeer,Jr (Terry, Cathy and Carol) Simpsonville Mayor PaulShewmaker withRegent Cathy Hubka The Nathanael Greene Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution recognized the development of the Constitution of the United States for Constitution Day, September 17th , by meeting with local mayors w...

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Headline: Backcountry Law after the Revolution

Section: Commentary

Date: October 17, 2022 by Moonville Mae

The fact that the Constitution of the United States was signed five years after the Backcountry opened up to legal settlement is an important statement to Greenville residents and historians.  By 1787 a primitive government was operating in Greenville County and later Washington District (now the counties of Greenville, Anderson, Pickens and O...

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Headline: Moonville Mae spends lots of time at the Piedmont History Museum!

Section: Local

Date: July 12, 2022 by Moonville Mae

The Piedmont History Museum is currently housed in the Piedmont Community Building at 3 Main Street, Piedmont.  We care for a collection started by historian Don Roper over fifty years ago and we have been adding to Don’s work for about five years now.   L/R:  Joy Clark, Anne Peden,Joe Hursey, and Ed Betterlyworking in ...

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Headline: Moonville Mae says Happy New Year! Care for Our Ancestors!

Section: Local

Date: January 25, 2022 by Moonville Mae

Join the movement to save and care for our county cemeteries. Wreaths Placed at Reedy ForkBaptist Church There are hundreds of cemeteries in Greenville County, many are what are termed “abandoned”.  The abandoned ones are usually older ones, on private property, and uncared for.  These are usually family or closed ch...

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Headline: Moonville Mae praises preservation in Greenville County

Section: Local

Date: December 20, 2021 by Moonville Mae

Most of you know I’ve worked with several groups in the county to share our history in Southern Greenville County for a number of years now.  Christmas brings me much nostalgia about the times of my life and my immediate families’ as well.  Each day when I rise, I am blessed with the view of my families’ 1880 farmhouse.&...

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Headline: Moonville Mae Always Falls for Autumn!

Section: Nature

Date: November 22, 2021 by Moonville Mae

A poem by  Emily Bronte   They’s something kindo’ harty-like about the atmusfere When the heat of summer’s over and the coolin’ fall is here— but ef sich a thing could be As the Angels wantin’ boardin’,  and they’d call around on me— I’d want to ’commodate &rsqu...

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Headline: Moonville Mae loves traveling

Section: Nature

Date: October 11, 2021 by Moonville Mae

These cooler days have turned me to thinking of autumn and enjoying my screened porch.  I love to see the fields full of fox-tail grasses and tickle weed and acorns being stored by the blue jays.  Even the garden cats are lying still as leaves cover them.  I can now reminisce about the busy, busy summer of car trips with cousin Nancy...

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Headline: Constitution Day celebrated by local DAR

Section: Celebrations

Date: September 24, 2021 by Moonville Mae

The Nathanael Greene Chapter of the Daughters of the AmericanRevolution recognized the development of the Constitution of the United States for Constitution Day, September 17th by meeting with local mayors who signed proclamations for their towns.  Simpsonville Mayor Shewmakerwith DAR membersTerry Gordon,Shelley Hart, Cathy Hubka ...

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Headline: Moonville Mae still loves Granny's mailbox

Section: Nature

Date: May 21, 2021 by Moonville Mae

I still live on property my great grandfather purchased in 1872. He was a Tollett from Tennessee who came here after the war because he couldn't go back to his Union family. He had three daughters and one, my grandmother, married a local boy and they lived in the Tollett homeplace which became known as the Campbell homeplace.  At some point w...

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Headline: Moonville Mae greets you from Spring! Finally!

Section: Nature

Date: April 27, 2021 by Moonville Mae

Spring is bringing many positive happenings lift to spirits.  May joy come in the morning  with the warmth of the sun.  May the sun touch the earth and give all life a new chance to become what was intended. In this growth and revival our energies should stir efforts to not only restore our gardens but to restore our visions for e...

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Headline: Moonville Mae Reflects on Driving during 2020

Section: Celebrations

Date: December 21, 2020 by Moonville Mae

Everyone is aware that 2020 has been a challenging year.  I taught for over twenty years in Greenville County School District’s Challenge Program, a service for advanced students.  Our charge as teachers was to provide these students with a “challenging” curriculum asking them to think differently and solve problems and ...

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