Articles

Early Menlo happenings. Three murders, one unsolved.

  The town of Menlo was founded in 1883 by Captain Andrew Jackson Lawrence on land that belonged to him in order to secure a post office for the area. When Captain Lawrence came to Menlo there were only two homes in the area as more people lived near Alpine.   One was his, and

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Growing up at Riversdale in the 1910s by Evelyn K. Stephenson

Stories about Life in the Early 1900s as told by Evelyn Kellett Stephenson ( reprinted from the 2005 quarterly)   I’m sure the way we lived at Riversdale when I was growing up would seem like a hard life compared with the way people live today.  There were no modern conveniences; our house was heated

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Reminiscing about Trion’s Big Friendly Store in the 1940’s and 50’s

  Memories by the late Gene Massey from his book Our Father God, The Chili Wagon and the Finger Coffin Memories of Life in Trion During the Forties and Fifties At the end of the picturesque, horseshoe-shaped plaza was a large, square, two-story brick and white stucco-finished construction that was arguably the activity center of

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The Summerville Post Office, a Trio of Stories

        Jake Moyers, Building the Post Office ,and the Post Office Mural        One of the most beautiful historic buildings along Commerce street is our lovely Post Office built in 1937. The site  chosen was where the Moyers home sat prominently  near the courthouse, businesses and offices and was the intersection for

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Memories of Summerville’s Very Early Years by Mrs. J.W. Johnson

( The following article was printed in The Summerville News in 1923. It was written by 83 year old Mrs. J.W. Johnson who moved to Summerville in 1842. The pictures were added by the Historical Society for this article. The newspaper clippings following Mrs. Johnson’s history are from The Summerville Gazette in 1877. )  

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