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County was more economically lively than tne northern end.
After a hard day, workers might get a cold drink in the basement saloon of the Laurel Mills store, kept cool by a concrete trough carrying cold spring w i‘ • igravity flow through the room, according to Mary Margaret Fannon, who now owns tire store.
There were dances held in a building near the store, and Hitt claims “this place was rocking and rolling in the 1920s.”
History hid this cameo of economic life for a century or more. An early mill burned down in 1900, said
See HISTORIC, Page A8
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