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For years, many folks in the Hock Mills area, went back up the Kush River to Mt. Salem Church. After the mountain people left the park, a great deal of them from the Hazel bought land at Five Forks and built the church there for their pastor, who also left the hollow. “These were Dotsons, Burkes and Hawkins,” Cannon remembers. “They weren’t resettled by the government, they just bought their own land there.”
There was a post office there at Five Forks that was called “Cloud,” although Cannon doesn’t know why, and for a time there was also mail delivery to Captain Norman’s store.
Children in the area went to school at Mt. Salem except when there was a school at “Fryetown” across from where the Anderson’s have their pond on the Shade Road.
Generally, it was a quiet farming community, with no more than a few families along the hollow formed by the Rush and the Thornton Rivers. “Castleton” was not used much as a place name for the settlement across the bridge and the road was not identified with the Shade farm. The whole area until the hollow turned into Tiger Valley was called Rock Mills and the road, which until fifty years ago, followed the river bed closely, was called the Rock Mills Road.
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