Re: Why the hell would someone name a town “Locust?”.
Can we get an honest explanation for Locust using the recently self-appointed moniker 'The City with a Soul"? I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.
My working theory is Otis Redding once flew over the area traveling from shows in New York to Florida or a local resident is claiming to have a lock of James Brown's righteous pompadour.
Where is Stanly County in your chart of subscribers?!? Do I count for nothing??? Please contact me about our bespoke meme. You’ve got plenty of material, since Locust, Red Cross, and Frog Pond are in that county you didn’t even mention.
And three miles from Frog Pond: Big Lick. (Although technically Big Lick is unincorporated and may be considered part of Oakboro.) My grandparents lived in Stanly County, and I was in in the back seat many a time watching Locust, Frog Pond, Red Cross and Big Lick go by. Not that it takes long for those places to go by..
Anyone know why Reverend Robert Hall Morrison, first President of Davidson College, named the church he established in Lucia in 1852, Castanea Grove Presbyterian Church, rather than Chestnut Grove Presbyterian Church? Grove was dropped from the name in 1881. Anyone know why?
To the west of Locust is Midland, which many old timers still call Hell’s Half Acre due to their penchant for booze, music, and card-playing.
As always, enjoyable quirky nuanced writing. Love it!!
Re: Why the hell would someone name a town “Locust?”.
Can we get an honest explanation for Locust using the recently self-appointed moniker 'The City with a Soul"? I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.
My working theory is Otis Redding once flew over the area traveling from shows in New York to Florida or a local resident is claiming to have a lock of James Brown's righteous pompadour.
Where is Stanly County in your chart of subscribers?!? Do I count for nothing??? Please contact me about our bespoke meme. You’ve got plenty of material, since Locust, Red Cross, and Frog Pond are in that county you didn’t even mention.
And three miles from Frog Pond: Big Lick. (Although technically Big Lick is unincorporated and may be considered part of Oakboro.) My grandparents lived in Stanly County, and I was in in the back seat many a time watching Locust, Frog Pond, Red Cross and Big Lick go by. Not that it takes long for those places to go by..
Anyone know why Reverend Robert Hall Morrison, first President of Davidson College, named the church he established in Lucia in 1852, Castanea Grove Presbyterian Church, rather than Chestnut Grove Presbyterian Church? Grove was dropped from the name in 1881. Anyone know why?