Remembering Florence: Tales from a Railroad Town

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."

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 10/01/2009
ISBN: 9781540220196
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d