Like many small southern towns, Marion was home to several textile mill villages beginning in the second decade of the 1900s. Labor unrest led to strikes and eventually to a bloody confrontation in East Marion in 1929. That violent episode has overshadowed much of the rest of McDowell County textile mill history, but the mill village [...]
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Life in the Clinchfield Mill Village
Posted in Everyday life, Marion, Mill Village, Textiles, _Interviewee: Glenys Gilbert, tagged mcdowell county, Mill Village, oral history on August 13, 2009 |
Daughter of Former Sheriff Remembers Roller Skating in the Courthouse, a Jailbreak Thwarted by an Older Sister, and More
Posted in Everyday life, Marion, _Interviewee: Betty Gibbs, tagged mcdowell county, oral history on August 11, 2009 |
Back in the 1930s, being sheriff of McDowell County meant that your entire family became part of the process. Betty Adkins Gibbs, daughter of Sheriff Oscar Adkins, remembers how living in the courthouse just steps away from the jail cells and the court room got everyone in the family involved in some way (willingly or not). In [...]
The Ramble Rack
Posted in Everyday life, Marion, _Interviewee: Ellen Brown, tagged mcdowell county, oral history on August 11, 2009 |
Nowadays, outlet stores and discount centers are common features of any town’s retail landscape. But in the 1960s, the concept was still a novel one, especially in a small town like Marion. In 1963, after years of dreams, delays, and being required to jump through hoops to get a bank loan, Ellen Brown and her sister-in-law [...]
Neither rain nor sleet nor snow…
Posted in Civil War, Everyday life, Marion, _Interviewee: Robert Hawkins, tagged Civil War, mcdowell county, oral history on July 29, 2009 |
Robert Hawkins has deep family roots in McDowell County and was a mailman from 1954 to 1990. He sat down in his rocker by the fireplace in his Marion home to tell us about his father’s eyewitness account of the 1894 fire that destroyed nearly all of downtown, his grandmother’s story of Union raiders passing through her family’s farm [...]
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