Dellview, North Carolina was formed 100 years ago for a very specific reason. It survived for years as one of the smallest towns in the United States. Why did it hang on for so long?
I meant to tell you this when I originally asked you about Delview, but one of my best friends is a Dellinger, and lives on Delview Road in Gaston County very close to where the town was! I had asked him about the town one day and he confirmed that members of his family started the town!
I was a reporter for The Gastonia (now Gaston) Gazette in 1985-87, and I seem to recall doing an article on Dellview either then or, in 1991, for the Greensboro News & Record after the first batch of 1990 Census data came out. Pretty sure I talked to at least one Dellinger for that article, but my brain is dissolving and my clips from that era have long since turned to dust.
I meant to tell you this when I originally asked you about Delview, but one of my best friends is a Dellinger, and lives on Delview Road in Gaston County very close to where the town was! I had asked him about the town one day and he confirmed that members of his family started the town!
I was a reporter for The Gastonia (now Gaston) Gazette in 1985-87, and I seem to recall doing an article on Dellview either then or, in 1991, for the Greensboro News & Record after the first batch of 1990 Census data came out. Pretty sure I talked to at least one Dellinger for that article, but my brain is dissolving and my clips from that era have long since turned to dust.
Three years later there were no chickens.
L'homme propose, le dieu dispose.
You find some of the quirkest places! Never heard of this town and glad their ways never flourished.
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Another useless political maneuver.