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Remembering Florence : Tales from a Railroad Town
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For a town that once consisted of nothing more than a shed, a pine forest and a name, Florence, South Carolina, boasts a surprisingly rich history. From the ten foot bomb dropped on a Mars Bluff farm by apologetic Air Force pilots to a record-breaking seventeen-inch snowfall, this Pee Dee hub has seen plenty of extraordinary events and famous characters. Here, William Howard Taft enjoyed pine bark stew and Herbert Hoover visited Mikado Millie a world champion cow known for her prolific milk-making. Longtime journalist Thom Anderson lovingly recalls these hometown tales collected over thirty years of writing columns for the Morning News."
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- ISBN-13: 9781540220196
- ISBN-10: 1540220192
- Publisher: History Press Library Editions
- Publish Date: October 2009
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.44 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
- Page Count: 162
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