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34th annual<br />
April 20-21, <strong>2018</strong><br />
classic car cruise-in •<br />
live music at downtown amphitheater<br />
food • arts & crafts • amusements<br />
SESQUICENTENNIAL EDITION
Page 2 Pickens County Courier • <strong>2018</strong> <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> April 20-21, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Welcome to<br />
the 34th annual<br />
<strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
the<br />
Aza-<br />
‘‘When<br />
leas are<br />
blooming<br />
in Pickens,<br />
South<br />
Carolina, the little town celebrates!”<br />
For 34 years, Pickens has celebrated<br />
spring by throwing an arts and entertainment<br />
based and family-friendly celebration<br />
— the Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
Each April, the <strong>Azalea</strong>s bloom,<br />
artisans and crafters come out, and the<br />
community joins together to<br />
celebrate spring in the<br />
city of Pickens. Celebrate<br />
is exactly what they do!<br />
Presented by the Pickens<br />
<strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> Committee<br />
and hosted by area<br />
nonprofit and civic<br />
organizations, the<br />
Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> boasts the largest<br />
gathering of crafters,<br />
artisans and entertainers<br />
in the county, and quite<br />
possibly the Golden Corner!<br />
The <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is also somewhat<br />
of a large family reunion, giving<br />
people who have been away too long the<br />
chance to return and to visit with old<br />
friends and family. The streets are filled<br />
with local artists and crafters, exciting<br />
and varied food vendors and quaint little<br />
shops and eateries. Strolling downtown<br />
Pickens during the festival is certainly an<br />
exciting and fun-filled activity.<br />
The festival gives those who have<br />
never visited an opportunity to experience<br />
this great area during one of the<br />
best times to explore and experience all<br />
Pickens County has to offer!<br />
National, regional and local musical<br />
artists entertain, while local artisans<br />
and crafters inspire. Foodies will enjoy<br />
regional favorites, and the kids will<br />
laugh as they partake in<br />
the children’s ride area.<br />
Come browse one<br />
of the largest cruiseins<br />
in the area and<br />
enjoy all that Pickens has<br />
to offer! For those<br />
who are interested<br />
in more physical<br />
activity, the annual<br />
Pickens Women’s<br />
Association 5k is held<br />
annually in conjunction<br />
with the Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. History<br />
buffs will enjoy self-guided tours<br />
through historic Pickens or enjoy a short<br />
drive to the many historic places in and<br />
around Pickens County.<br />
There is something for everyone to<br />
enjoy each spring at the Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong>!<br />
Special Thanks<br />
The <strong>2018</strong> <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> Committee would like to thank the many people,<br />
volunteers and organizations who have supported and contributed to the <strong>2018</strong><br />
<strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>:<br />
• Thank you to Mayor David Owens and Pickens City Council, Pickens Police<br />
Department and Streets & Sanitation Department for their support.<br />
• Thanks to the Pickens County Courier and IWANNA for their support in<br />
promoting the <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> through the special edition insert.<br />
• Thanks to the Pickens Senior Citizens volunteers for their support, Friday<br />
& Saturday.<br />
• Thank you to The Pickens Rotary Club for sponsoring the <strong>Azalea</strong> Art contest.<br />
• Special thanks to all our financial sponsors & businesses for helping to make<br />
the festival possible.<br />
• Thanks to the local groups and entertainers who gave generously of their<br />
time and talents at the Pickens Amphitheater.<br />
We would like to personally thank the festival committee, volunteers and support<br />
volunteers for their hard work and dedication over the months following.<br />
They have given many hours of their personal time to make this event a success.<br />
Pictured, from left, are <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> committee treasurer Jeff Hogan, festival<br />
sponsorship coordinator Pamela Dodson, committee members Michael Ralston,<br />
Frances Wannamaker and Susan Ralston, committee chairman Russ Gantt and<br />
committee member Roy Costner.<br />
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Entertainment schedules<br />
Friday, April 20<br />
6 p.m. Cruise-in starts<br />
6:30 p.m. Sweet Potato Pie Kids<br />
7:45 p.m. Ole #4<br />
9 p.m. Jake Bartley Band<br />
The annual <strong>Azalea</strong> Fest Cruise-In is open to all<br />
year models (Jeeps are also welcome). Last year we<br />
had over 300 cars and hope for even more this year!<br />
No fee or application required.<br />
Traffic will be one way,<br />
and vehicles must to enter<br />
at South Lewis or Pendleton streets.<br />
A special costume contest is also planned for Friday night to honor<br />
Pickens County’s sesquicentennial.<br />
The winner<br />
will be the person<br />
with the best 1868-style<br />
costume.<br />
Friday entertainment<br />
is presented by<br />
the city of Pickens.<br />
Saturday, April 21<br />
10 a.m. Opening Ceremony (Courthouse)<br />
Posting of Colors — Boys Scouts Troop 51<br />
National Anthem — Angela Seaborn<br />
Welcome — Pickens’ Mayor David Owens<br />
Announcements — Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> Board<br />
10:30 a.m. Local Church Choir TBA<br />
Noon<br />
Pet Pageant<br />
1 p.m. Zack Stiltner<br />
2:30 p.m. Brady Smith<br />
4 p.m. John Tibbs<br />
(featured artist from God’s Not Dead 2)<br />
5:30 p.m. Benton Blount<br />
(America’s Got Talent finalist)<br />
7:15 p.m. Mac Powell<br />
(Third Day’s lead singer)<br />
Please Come & Enjoy<br />
The 34th Annual<br />
Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> on<br />
Saturday, April 21<br />
Davey Hiott<br />
State Representative<br />
District 4, Pickens County<br />
Phone: (864) 878-0370<br />
Hours: 7AM–8PM<br />
440 Ann St, Pickens, SC 29671<br />
<strong>Azalea</strong> Artist - Hayley Brown, 10th grade | Pickens High School
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<strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> History<br />
Spring, with its warming<br />
days encouraging trees to<br />
bud and flowers to grace<br />
the landscape, is always a<br />
reason to celebrate, and<br />
Pickens takes full advantage<br />
of the opportunity.<br />
A 1989 brochure promoting the<br />
city’s annual festival said it best with the<br />
words “When the <strong>Azalea</strong>s are blooming<br />
in Pickens, South Carolina, the little<br />
town celebrates!”<br />
And having fun in a family-oriented<br />
atmosphere is exactly what they do during<br />
the <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, which occurs<br />
each year in April.<br />
Hosted by local and area civic-minded<br />
organizations, the <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
resembles a large family reunion for<br />
Pickens County residents, and it gives<br />
people who have been away far too long<br />
the chance to return for a visit with old<br />
friends while strolling the streets of<br />
Pickens that are filled with artists offering<br />
a variety of their work and crafts,<br />
local organizations handing out information<br />
on a series of topics, and an assortment<br />
of foods that will entice even the<br />
pickiest of eaters.<br />
The <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> also calls to<br />
people who have never been fortunate<br />
enough to actually live in Pickens<br />
County, beckoning them to share for a<br />
moment the pleasures local people enjoy<br />
each day.<br />
The <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> had its beginnings<br />
in the spring of 1983 as a <strong>small</strong>,<br />
juried show called the Mountain Arts &<br />
Crafts Show and organized by the Pickens<br />
Civitan Club was held in the north<br />
end of Pickens.<br />
Later, in 1983, the then current<br />
Chamber of Commerce President snd<br />
Pickens Civitan Club founder, Ruth<br />
Swayngham Hinkle, had the vision to<br />
convince the Civitians to move the show<br />
to downtown and invite other non-profit<br />
groups to participate. Hinkle told of her<br />
vision at the annual Chamber banquet,<br />
“I see many different organizations having<br />
activities on closed off streets and<br />
parking lots all over town,” she said.<br />
By enlisting the support of the<br />
Chamber as sponsor, the first Pickens<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> was held in 1984 with the<br />
Civitan Arts & Crafts Show, the Junior<br />
Assemble providing lemonade, the Jaycees,<br />
donuts and the Chamber giving out<br />
information.<br />
Over the next few years the event<br />
attracted many more organizations and<br />
greatly expanded the gourmet choices<br />
to feet the hungry public and some<br />
ingenious attractions. For those first<br />
years, it was held in May, the Saturday<br />
before Mother’s Day, and at the same<br />
time as the springtime Pickin’ in Pickens<br />
Bluegrass <strong>Festival</strong>, which was held in a<br />
pasture north of town.<br />
The <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> was able to not<br />
only borrow entertainers from the Bluegrass<br />
festival, it was also able to bring in<br />
other forms of local entertainment.<br />
In 1987, Jerrie Hixon, who served<br />
as the festival coordinator for the event’s<br />
first nine years, compiled the first selfguided<br />
historical tour with about 20 locations.<br />
The next year, and for years after,<br />
the guide was published in The Pickens<br />
Sentinel’s special <strong>section</strong>.<br />
As the years passed, more research<br />
was done by area historians to add new<br />
sites and old photos to the annually<br />
published tour. By following the map<br />
in the printed tour guide, festival goers<br />
can read about each place as they walk<br />
by. Open for tours each year are the<br />
Hagood-Mauldin House, the Pickens<br />
County Art & History Museum and the<br />
Hagood Mill.<br />
Cynthia Boney, another long-time<br />
festival coordinator led the festival into<br />
the century, worked lovingly at preserving<br />
the history by adding to the tour<br />
until it included over 50 locations.<br />
Many are grateful for the support<br />
of area businesses in faithfully advertising<br />
in the <strong>section</strong> which comes out each<br />
year the Wednesday before the festival to<br />
provide the Historical Tour and all the<br />
festival highlights for the current year.<br />
In 1988, the festival date was moved<br />
to the third Saturday in April, the peak<br />
of the azalea blooming season, and<br />
by 1989 the new name was officially<br />
changed to the Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
Fun activities were planned each year,<br />
including parades, stage coach rides, a<br />
petting zoo, puppet and magic shows,<br />
clowns and organ grinders. Some attractions<br />
were brief lived while other<br />
became traditions.<br />
In 1990, a very special cake was made<br />
to celebrate the 250th birthday of General<br />
Andrew Pickens. Connie and June<br />
Bowers graciously excepted the challenge<br />
to play the parts of the General and his<br />
lovely wife, Rebecca, at the party. Anna<br />
Simon, a local newspaper reporter, played<br />
the part of Brenda Starr, who “interviewed”<br />
the historic couple at the party,<br />
thus starting a favorite tradition.<br />
Since then, many different local<br />
couples have accepted the honor to put<br />
on the period clothing and be the official<br />
greeters of the festival by playing the<br />
part of the Revolutionary War hero and<br />
his wife.<br />
Through the years, several other<br />
traditions have remained strong, including<br />
the annual <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> T-shirt.<br />
Starting in 1987, every year the Pickens<br />
Civitan Club has chosen the artwork<br />
depicting a Pickens area landmark. The<br />
first shift was pale yellow with brown<br />
ink, featuring the Hagood Mill drawn by<br />
local artist, Mary McDaniel.<br />
Throughout the festival’s history,<br />
many different colors of shirts have<br />
been added and local artist have donated<br />
their talents for these shirts that help<br />
the community. Most featured places are<br />
on the historical tour, such as historic<br />
homes, museums, Chapman’s Bridge, the<br />
old Pickens School house, the Pickens<br />
“Doodle” train engine and even natural<br />
landmarks, such as Glassy Mountain and<br />
Table Rock Mountain.<br />
Each year, Pickens High School art<br />
students are invited to enter original<br />
drawings of an azalea flower and one<br />
drawing is selected to become the official<br />
artwork of the festival. For years, an official<br />
U.S. cancellation stamp was made for<br />
the Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> Station from<br />
the artwork. Letters were received every<br />
year from all over the United States requesting<br />
the cancellation stamp. In addition,<br />
many people visited the post office<br />
station at the festival to mail friends and<br />
even themselves a card or letter with the<br />
collector’s stamp. This drawing is also<br />
featured on the T-shirt and in publicity<br />
fliers and information.<br />
Planning for a festival of this size<br />
takes all year. The few who have assumed<br />
the task of leadership are greatly<br />
appreciated. Although the sponsorship<br />
has gone from Chamber to Civitans to<br />
the Greater Pickens Chamber Of Commerce,<br />
the groups have always worked<br />
together to get the fun day accomplished.<br />
In 1992, when Hixon left the lead,<br />
the Chamber passed the sponsorship back<br />
to the Civitan Club where the energetic<br />
work of festival coordinators, Chalma<br />
Drake, Michael Chastain and Cynthia<br />
Boney brought new and creative ideas.<br />
In 2002 the Greater Pickens Chamber<br />
of Commerce was asked to re-adapt<br />
sponsorship of the <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. Jerri<br />
Hixon was asked to lead and revive the<br />
structure of the community wide representation<br />
of the <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> Planning<br />
Committee. In the summer of 2003, the<br />
role of festival coordinator was taken<br />
over by the long time community leader<br />
and former Pickens Jaycee, Russ Gantt.<br />
Under Gantt’s leadership, the <strong>Festival</strong><br />
added Friday evening entertainment<br />
and carnival rides in 2004 and was billed<br />
for the first time in 2005 as a two-day<br />
event, including Friday evening and all<br />
day Saturday.<br />
In 2005, the first annual Classic Car<br />
Cruise-Inn was added as a Friday night<br />
attraction to the weekend festivities.<br />
Now in it’s 11th year, the Cruise-In has<br />
grown to over 300 entries.<br />
In 2009, to celebrate the 25th anniversary<br />
of the <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, the<br />
event went to three days and for the first<br />
time the festival history expanded out to<br />
Include West Main Street.<br />
Also in 2009, the annual <strong>Azalea</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> program book was published<br />
in both local newspapers — The Pickens<br />
Sentinel and The Pickens County<br />
Courier.<br />
As the years have progressed, the<br />
arts and crafts booths have increased to<br />
more than 100 participants, and many<br />
more civic groups have brought their<br />
talents and endless volunteer hours to<br />
the event.<br />
The festival has spread out through<br />
downtown Pickens — down Main Street,<br />
onto Court Street and Lewis Street, on<br />
Legacy Square and business parking lots<br />
— just as Ruth had envisioned so many<br />
years earlier.<br />
As the <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> begins its<br />
34rd year as a family event, the tradition<br />
continues as a way for more than 40<br />
civic nonprofit community organizations<br />
to raise funds for various worthwhile<br />
causes.<br />
It has been estimated that more than<br />
$100,000 has been raised over the years<br />
to go to local charities through the sale<br />
of food and souvenirs.<br />
Visit the Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> and<br />
share in an annual tradition that is anticipated<br />
year-round by area residents as a<br />
way to celebrate spring in Pickens.
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A Brief History of Pickens<br />
On a hilltop overlooking<br />
the Keowee River, the<br />
town of Pickens Courthouse<br />
was established<br />
in 1848 as the judicial<br />
seat of the new Pickens<br />
District, named in<br />
honor of local hero Revolutionary Partisan<br />
General Andrew Pickens. It quickly<br />
became a thriving center of hardy and<br />
industrious souls who came to civilize<br />
a mountainous frontier and provide for<br />
their families. The population flourished<br />
and only twenty years later, in 1868,<br />
Pickens District was divided roughly in<br />
half by the Keowee River into the two<br />
counties of Pickens, the eastern half,<br />
and Oconee, the western, taking on an<br />
appropriate Cherokee name. The early<br />
families of Pickens Courthouse packed<br />
up once again and moved. William Earle<br />
Hagood took down his entire house and<br />
rebuilt it on what is now Lewis Street<br />
in uptown Pickens. It stands today as a<br />
monument to our forebears ingenuity,<br />
energy, and good taste.<br />
A handbill distributed in June of<br />
1869 advertised the “Last Sale of Town<br />
Lots” for the Upcountry Town of<br />
Pickens. It described the lots as “comprising<br />
half acre, one, two, three, and<br />
four acre lots, fourteen miles from Old<br />
Pickens, twenty miles from Greenville<br />
Court House and seventeen miles from<br />
Pendleton Village.” It went on, “In a<br />
healthy <strong>section</strong>, the location is most<br />
desirable, situated on a beautiful plateau<br />
and surrounded by a fertile region, with<br />
thrifty inhabitants and the village rapidly<br />
growing.” “Fine water on both Wolf and<br />
Town Creeks with good saw mills and<br />
an abundance of fine timber close by.<br />
Of nearly equal distance between the<br />
Keowee and Saluda Rivers, it has a fine<br />
view of mountain scenery and will command<br />
a large trade from the mountains<br />
and from North Carolina.”<br />
The village quickly prospered and by<br />
1898 the Pickens Railroad connected directly<br />
to the Air Line Railroad, later Southern<br />
Railway. Stores and impressive homes<br />
lined the busy main thoroughfares. Farms<br />
of all sizes, saw mills, shingle mills, brick<br />
mills, roller mills, schools, and churches<br />
MAIN STREET PICKENS, 1929<br />
emerged in and around the town. The<br />
arrival of electrically driven industrial technology<br />
in the 1900s spurred the growth.<br />
Throughout the generations here,<br />
the arts and crafts of our ancestors were<br />
passed down. The necessities of survival<br />
like fabric weaving, quilting, pottery<br />
turning, metal working, mechanical engineering,<br />
and agriculture are transcendent<br />
and inspire the art of our traditional<br />
music. The millennia of visual arts are<br />
evidenced in our Cherokee crafts and<br />
pre-Native American pottery. Nowhere<br />
in the South Carolina Upcountry is<br />
all this more evident than at our own<br />
Hagood Mill Historic Site where stone is<br />
etched with ancient petroglyphs and the<br />
evocative traditional music fills the air as<br />
the centuries-old waterwheel still grinds<br />
cornmeal to its own natural rhythm as it<br />
did for our ancestors.<br />
From its very earliest days, Pickens,<br />
the first town of Pickens County, has<br />
been a story of pioneer visionaries, hard<br />
work, and success. Its past is storied and<br />
its future is bright.<br />
Artist<br />
Hayley Brown, 10th grade<br />
Pickens High School<br />
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Family Owned & Operated Since 1959<br />
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Page 6 Pickens County Courier • <strong>2018</strong> <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> April 20-21, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Sweet Potato Pie Kids<br />
The Jake Bartley Band<br />
Friday, April 20, 9 p.m.<br />
One of the most highly sought after and hard<br />
working bands in the Carolinas! The Jake Bartley<br />
Band is local to the Upstate of S.C. and will deliver a<br />
unique and progressive blend of rock, country, soul,<br />
jazz, and blues for festival goers! The members of the<br />
band have each spent years traveling and performing<br />
nationally and internationally. Individually, they have<br />
appearances on their resumes such as the Today Show,<br />
the Rachel Ray Show, the Grand Ole Opry and countless<br />
other major music festivals and venues across the<br />
country.<br />
<strong>2018</strong><br />
Sweet Potato Pie Kids<br />
Friday, April 20, 6:30 p.m.<br />
The Sweet Potato Pie Kids are the performing band<br />
for the Young Appalachian Musicians (YAM) program.<br />
Currently, there are more than 300 kids in the afterschool<br />
program in Pickens, who are in 12 different school programs,<br />
as well as in evening music programs. Sweet Potato<br />
Pie Kids are recommended by their instructors and chosen<br />
to be in the popular band by auditions. The current<br />
members of the band range in age from fifth- to seventhgraders.<br />
They all have learned to play bluegrass and oldtime<br />
music on acoustic instruments the traditional way<br />
— by ear.<br />
Also<br />
Featuring<br />
THE SPINNERS<br />
Jim Quick & Coastline<br />
And<br />
Friday, May 4<br />
Largest Cruise-In in The Upstate!<br />
MAGIC<br />
An Upstate Premier Variety Band<br />
5:30 pm-10 pm<br />
Ticket info: 800-240-3400<br />
blueridgefest.com<br />
Event takes place at Blue Ridge Electric Co-op • 734 W. Main St., Pickens, SC
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Zack Stiltner<br />
Saturday, April 21, 1 p.m.<br />
Zack Stiltner is no stranger to the South. Zack grew up<br />
in Atlanta GA, Fort Mill SC, and Hilton Head SC. He began<br />
singing country at the young age of 13. Since his start in<br />
show business, Zack has performed across the country such<br />
as the CMA Fest and Dollywood. His passion is performing<br />
and sharing his music. You do not want to miss his performance<br />
at the Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>!<br />
Brady Smith<br />
Saturday, April 21, 2:30 p.m.<br />
Brady Smith grew up in upstate New York singing<br />
Christian bluegrass music with his family up and down the<br />
east coast. While there were not many country music stations<br />
in New York, his aunt played a Randy Travis cassette for him<br />
at a young age. His instant love and fascination with it led<br />
him to begin singing and writing country music at the age<br />
of 13. Now living in Charleston, South Carolina, achieving a<br />
life long dream of living near the ocean, Brady’s love of the<br />
lowcountry is reflected in several of his songs. He is a unique<br />
dichotomy of authentic country music and music that appeals<br />
to lovers of all genres.<br />
John Tibbs<br />
Saturday, April 21, 4 p.m.<br />
John Tibbs is a nationally known Christian artist. John<br />
was recently featured on the God’s Not Dead 2 movie. In 3<br />
years, John has toured over 500 dates all over the U.S. amidst<br />
these releases as well as co-penning songs with writers and<br />
artists like Dave Barnes, Matt Maher, Michael Farren, and<br />
Paul Mabury. Be on the lookout, as he does not seem to be<br />
slowing down anytime soon. John currently resides in Nashville<br />
with his wife, Emily and their dog, Lady.<br />
Benton Blount<br />
Saturday, April 21, 5:30 p.m.<br />
Benton Blount is a local, nationally recognized artist<br />
from Greenville, S.C. Growing up in the North Carolina<br />
mountains, Benton Blount never picked up a guitar or a<br />
microphone, much less played a tune. At age 18, his music<br />
pastor snuck a microphone up to his mouth and to his<br />
and everyone’s amazement, a beautiful voice was pouring<br />
out. Thus, sparking Benton’s passion for singing and writing<br />
songs. Benton is sure to have you on your feet with a compilation<br />
of southern rock and country!<br />
Benton Blount<br />
Brady Smith<br />
Mac Powell<br />
Mac Powell<br />
Saturday, April 21, 7:15 p.m.<br />
Even if you don’t know Mac Powell, you probably know<br />
Mac Powell! Mac is the lead singer of the popular Christian<br />
band Third Day. He has been nominated for over 10 Grammys<br />
and won 4. This Christian legend will be our lead singer<br />
for Saturday, April 21 and you do not want to miss his performance.<br />
He is sure to meet every music lovers need playing<br />
a host of music including contemporary Christian, southern<br />
gospel, southern rock, and country!<br />
Zack Stiltner<br />
John Tibbs
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Civic/Nonprofit Organizations<br />
<strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> — The <strong>Azalea</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Committee will have two booths<br />
this year. One located in front of the<br />
Pickens County Court House and the<br />
other booth at inter<strong>section</strong> of Main St.<br />
and Garvin St. in front of the new Amphitheater<br />
sign. Look for the information<br />
banners. Stop by to pick up a schedule of<br />
events, or just come by and say hello.<br />
American Legion — Booth 101<br />
Faith Lutheran<br />
Chapel<br />
will provide a<br />
baby changing<br />
station<br />
at the <strong>Azalea</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> on<br />
Saturday, as<br />
well as a pet<br />
hydration<br />
station.<br />
Pickens Church of God —<br />
Booth 507<br />
Pickens Cattleman Association<br />
— Booth 623<br />
Blue Flame Bass Anglers —<br />
Booth 126<br />
Freedom Biker Church —<br />
Booth 405<br />
Pickens Lions Club — Booth<br />
333<br />
Boy Scout Troop 51 — Booth<br />
332<br />
Pickens Garden Club —<br />
Booth 329<br />
Pickens Senior/Community<br />
Center — Booths 316, 317, 318<br />
Good News Club — Booth 538<br />
Pickens County 4-H — Booth<br />
438<br />
created the winning design for the <strong>2018</strong><br />
Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>. Booth 222<br />
Gideon’s International —<br />
Booth 219<br />
Café Connections — Booth<br />
305<br />
The Blood Connection — Corner<br />
of Pendleton St. & Main St.<br />
Pickens Team High School<br />
Bass Fishing — Booth 126<br />
Pickens CERT — Booth 239<br />
at BOA Parking lot. Booth 103<br />
PC Historical Society —<br />
Booth<br />
Holly Springs Center —<br />
Booth 341<br />
Council For Educational<br />
Travel USA — Booth 523<br />
BHSPC Research — Booth 303<br />
Mary’s House — Booth 322<br />
Pickens Special Olympics —<br />
Booth 212<br />
Family Promise of PC —<br />
Booth 314<br />
Pickens County Humane Society<br />
— Booth 562<br />
Mounted Ministries — Booth<br />
624<br />
Landmark Baptist Church —<br />
Booth 433<br />
Clemson Extension, storm<br />
waters partners — Booth 439<br />
Faith Independent Baptist<br />
Church — Booth 209<br />
Cannon AnMed Health Hospital<br />
Auxiliary — Booth 109<br />
Village Branch Library —<br />
Booth 529<br />
Conservatives of the Upstate<br />
— Booth 108<br />
AHG SC Troop 2014 — Booth<br />
214<br />
Hello,<br />
neighbor!<br />
Pickens Rotary Club — Get<br />
your Souvenir <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> T-Shirt,<br />
featuring award-winning <strong>Azalea</strong> Art.<br />
The award is annually presented to and<br />
art student at Pickens High School who<br />
Holly Cross Catholic Church<br />
— Booth 337<br />
Faith Lutheran Chapel — Will<br />
provide BABY CHANGING Saturday<br />
Sara Turgeon, Agent<br />
104 S Catherine St<br />
Pickens, SC 29671<br />
Bus: 864-878-3541<br />
sara.turgeon.nbx4@statefarm.com<br />
Please stop by and say, “Hi!”<br />
I’m looking forward to serving your needs for<br />
insurance and financial services.<br />
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. ®<br />
CALL ME TODAY.<br />
1001013.1 State Farm, Home Office, Bloomington, IL
April 20-21, <strong>2018</strong> <strong>2018</strong> <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> • Pickens County Courier Page 9<br />
Bring your appetite<br />
to the <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Friday and all day Saturday the<br />
Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> will<br />
be serving a variety of foods,<br />
desserts, and snacks. So bring<br />
your appetite when you come. Booths<br />
throughout the festival will be serving<br />
foods for many different taste.<br />
Friday and Saturday<br />
Mile High Concessions —<br />
Chicken tenders, fries, philly cheese<br />
steaks, chili cheese fries, sausage.<br />
Booths 620, 621<br />
Pickens Fire Department<br />
— Hamburgers with all the fixings.<br />
Booths 127-130 in front of courthouse<br />
Parkette — Pulled BBQ sandwiches.<br />
Booths 342, 343<br />
Papa Bratts — Famous brats,<br />
smoked turkey legs, nacho/cheese,<br />
homemade chili, homemade coleslaw.<br />
Booths 425, 426<br />
Bayou Billy Sweet Dixie Tea<br />
— Sweet tea. Booth 619<br />
Bruster’s — Ice cream. Booth<br />
at corner of Main St. and Court<br />
St.<br />
Tsks Main Squeeze — Different<br />
flavors of lemonade. Booth 413<br />
Tay Chip Concessions — Hot<br />
dogs, corn dogs, fresh cut fries, bacon<br />
wrapped chicken on a stick, fried<br />
pickles, nachos and cheese, funnel cakes,<br />
fried Oreos and brownies, fried cheesecake<br />
and drinks. Amphitheater bottom<br />
parking lot<br />
Saturday only<br />
Taste Like Chicken — Fired turkey<br />
wings, regular and hot wings, chicken<br />
tenders, shrimp, fish and shrimp w/<br />
fires, rib sandwich, fish sandwich, fired<br />
mushrooms, fries and sweet potato fries<br />
and drinks. Booths 201, 202<br />
Wainoni Shaved ice<br />
— Shaved ice with choice of 8<br />
flavors and 3 cup sizes. Booth<br />
338<br />
LL’s Lil Orbits — Mini<br />
droughts, cotton candy, tea,<br />
soft drinks and lemonade.<br />
Booths 610, 611<br />
PHS Band Boosters<br />
— Funnel cakes. Booths 401,<br />
402<br />
Low Country Kettle<br />
Corn — Hand-popped kettle<br />
corn, boiled peanuts, nacho<br />
chips and sodas. Booths 423, 424<br />
Knights of Columbus — Grilled<br />
Italian and polish sausage on buns,<br />
choice of grilled onions, peppers and<br />
chips, drink. Booths 605A-605B<br />
Art contest winner<br />
Each year, the Pickens Rotary Club sponsors a<br />
contest with the art students of Pickens High<br />
School to create an image of an azalea. The winning<br />
image represents the festival in all media<br />
throughout the year, and the artist receives a<br />
prize from the club. The winner of the <strong>2018</strong> contest<br />
is 15-year-old Pickens High School sophomore<br />
Hayley Brown. She is the daughter of David<br />
and Erica Brown. With a passion for art, Brown<br />
hopes to finish her high school career<br />
in the visual arts<br />
program at the South<br />
Carolina Governor’s<br />
School for the Arts and<br />
Humanities and plans<br />
to attend Savannah<br />
College of Art and<br />
Design (SCAD).<br />
Business<br />
at the<br />
<strong>Festival</strong><br />
Blue Ridge Co-op — Booth<br />
502<br />
TD Bank — Booth 301 —<br />
Bank drive thru<br />
Wendy’s — Walk around<br />
Gutter Helmet — Booth<br />
319<br />
Paradise Home Improvement<br />
— Booth 635<br />
Northland Cable — Booth<br />
536<br />
Bath Fitter — Booth 517<br />
Bargain Exchange Flea<br />
Market — Booth 532<br />
AT&T Mobility — Booth<br />
501<br />
Mosquito Joe — Booth 121<br />
Southern Appalachian<br />
Outdoors — Booth 514<br />
Cutie Patooties — Booth<br />
119<br />
Leaf Filter North of North<br />
Carolina — Booth 606<br />
Pruitt Health, Pickens —<br />
Booth 544<br />
Vitalink Resarch — Booth<br />
429<br />
All American Gutter Protection<br />
— Booth 551<br />
PS Chiropractic — Booths<br />
324, 325<br />
Immerse LLC — Booth<br />
558<br />
J.R. Watkins — Booth 117<br />
LuLaRoe — Booth 560<br />
Paparazzi Jewelry —<br />
Booth 437
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<strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> Artists/Crafters<br />
Garden Haven Products by Jim<br />
and Nora Coon of Travelers Rest,<br />
S.C. — Carpenter bee traps and kits, mason<br />
bee houses, raised garden bed kits. Booth<br />
524, 525<br />
Calico and Pink by Wendy Austin<br />
of Fountain Inn, S.C. — Handmade<br />
clothing and accessories for American girl,<br />
Bitty baby dolls. Booth 539<br />
Peace’s Pieces by Vickie Peace<br />
of Moore, S.C. — Jewelry. Booth 237<br />
Tinketon Ltd by Janet Schumacher<br />
of Chester, S.C. — Soy candles,<br />
soothing soy creams. Booth 607<br />
Pecan Yummies by Amy Yule<br />
of Greenville, S.C. — All natural, gluten<br />
free baked pecan yummies, pre-packaged.<br />
Booth 432<br />
Plunder Jewelry by Amanda<br />
Murry of Easley, S.C. — Vintage jewelry.<br />
Booth 233<br />
Stitches<br />
by Denise Carlen<br />
of Huntersville,<br />
N.C. —<br />
Crochet character<br />
hats, newborn<br />
outfits etc. Booth<br />
304<br />
Southern Soap Shop by Dawn<br />
Drucker of Anderson, S.C. — Homemade<br />
soap lotion, lip balm. Booth 508<br />
L.B. Creations by Lillian Ballentine<br />
of Clemson, S.C. — Quilts, tote<br />
bags, pillows and pillow cases, baby items.<br />
Booth 605<br />
Mark the<br />
Poet by Mark<br />
Cadavet of<br />
Greer, S.C. —<br />
Hand designed<br />
notebooks and<br />
crosses. Booth<br />
526<br />
Pats Place by Lana Spradley of<br />
Greenwood, S.C. — Purses. Booth 313<br />
Bowtiful Blessings by Danielle<br />
Paterson of Pickens, S.C. — Hairbows,<br />
headbands, badge clips. Booth 216<br />
Finley Gems and Jewels by<br />
Dawn Finley of Easley, S.C. — Assorted<br />
gem stones, key chains etc. Booth 522<br />
Hand Stamping Memories by<br />
Debra Stofer of Gastonia, N.C. —<br />
Jewelry. Booth 235<br />
Mill Pine Soaps by Tonya Bagwell<br />
of Easley, S.C. — Bath salts, scrubs,<br />
lip balms. Booth 214<br />
Silly Willy Caricatures by Will<br />
Mollison of Johnson City, Tenn. —<br />
Hand drawn caricatures. Booth 436<br />
Leisa’s Closet by Leisa Dodson<br />
of Lyman, S.C. — Floral and mesh<br />
wreaths and arrangements. Booth 625<br />
Blue Ridge Barkery by Kathy<br />
McKenzie — Homemade natural dog<br />
treats. Booth 232<br />
Kiksa Fine Jewelry by Martha<br />
Sarria of Gastonia, N.C. — Jewelry.<br />
Booth 556<br />
Collar<br />
Creations by<br />
Jessica Hedden<br />
of Six Mile,<br />
S.C. — Handmade<br />
pet items. Booth<br />
221<br />
Mushroom<br />
Sales by Jo<br />
Ann Lail of<br />
Fountain Inn,<br />
S.C. — Handcrafted<br />
jewelry, name<br />
rings and crystals.<br />
Booth 541 and<br />
542<br />
William Moloney of Waxhaw,<br />
N.C. — Hand carved wood bird houses,<br />
wood figures etc. Booth 217<br />
Caricatures by Dawn<br />
by Dawn Scopino of Easley,<br />
S.C. — Draws people on<br />
the spot. Booth 105<br />
Splash n’ Scrub Soap<br />
Shop by Bruce Washington<br />
of Anderson, S.C. —<br />
Bath bars, facial bars, shampoo<br />
bars. Booths 503, 504<br />
Cross-Creations by<br />
Charlotte Ross of West<br />
Union, S.C. — Chandelier earrings<br />
etc. Booth 306<br />
Cutties Too by Breda<br />
Suarez of Simpsonville,<br />
S.C. — Greeting cards for all<br />
occasions, card holders etc.<br />
Booths 505, 506<br />
Broken<br />
Pieces by<br />
Kathy and<br />
Jimmy Hall of<br />
Anderson, S.C.<br />
— Makes one of a<br />
kind jewelry using<br />
recycled items<br />
such as copper<br />
pipes, electrical<br />
wire, broken china,<br />
broken sea shells<br />
and much more.<br />
Booths 411, 412<br />
Inglenook<br />
Soaps by Amy<br />
Moore of Campobello,<br />
S.C. — Handcrafted lye-based<br />
soaps using the traditional cold process<br />
method. Booth 335<br />
Nell’s Crafts by Allen and Nell<br />
Howell of Taylors, S.C. — Woodcraft<br />
items (birdhouses and feeders, tops, trucks,<br />
cars, trays, painted glassware, painted gourds<br />
and more. Booth 545<br />
Lee’s Craft by Sin-Xay Lynhiavu<br />
of Nebo, N.C. — Needle and stitch artwork,<br />
wall hanging, pillowcases and animals,<br />
table runner and cross stitch hand bags.<br />
Booth 609<br />
Sew Creations by Barbara<br />
Gabe of Anderson, S.C. — Smocked<br />
dresses, bibs, cloth placements and pillow<br />
cases. Booth 630<br />
Accent Fashion Jewelry by<br />
Kathy DeShields of Roebuck, S.C. —<br />
Interchangeable tassel necklaces, rings and<br />
other handmades. Booths 547, 548<br />
Mom In Motion by Lisa<br />
Williams of Central, S.C.<br />
— Nature photography. Booth<br />
327<br />
Charming Second Amendment<br />
by Emily Moseley of Greenwood,<br />
S.C. — Unique jewelry. Booths 628, 629<br />
See CRAFTS, Page 11
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crafts<br />
From Page 10<br />
Melton Trading Co. by Daniel<br />
Melton of Easley, S.C. — Coffee,<br />
ground, beans and liquid by the cup. Booth<br />
612<br />
Fresh Scents Soy Candles by<br />
Nancy Spain of Travelers Rest, S.C.<br />
— Wax melts. Booth 224<br />
Bully Bites by Cynthia Hamilton<br />
of Taylors, S.C. — Homemade all-natural<br />
dog treats and chews. Booth 220<br />
The Happy Berry of Six Mile, S.C.<br />
— Pussy willow plants and cut branches, aloe<br />
plants. Booth 111<br />
Georgia Grace Vintage Designs<br />
by Dana Floyd of Phenix City, Ala. —<br />
Wooden flags, signs, home décor, vinyl decals<br />
and metal art. Booth 510 and 511<br />
JT’s Wooden Toys by Jim Stein<br />
of Rutherfordton, N.C. — Wooden toys,<br />
train sets, pull toys etc. Booth 336<br />
Color Me Happy by Vonnie Hicks<br />
of Greenville, S.C. — Face painting.<br />
Booth 410<br />
ReBloom Elegant Garden Art by<br />
Clarissa Naish of Irmo, S.C. — Individually<br />
designed garden art sun catchers.<br />
Booth 408<br />
Rose Petals Crochet by Susan<br />
Brahmer of Fountain Inn, S.C. — Crochet<br />
shawls, blankets, etc. Booth 213<br />
Gypsy Goat Soaps by Jessica<br />
Owen of Pickens, S.C. — Handmade local<br />
raw goat milk soap bars. Booth 534<br />
Face Painting by Donald De-<br />
Pasquale of Denver, N.C. — Booth<br />
238<br />
2BY4 LLC by<br />
Robert Bicknel<br />
of Sunset, S.C.<br />
— Scratchboards, multimedia<br />
(watercolor<br />
with pen). Booth<br />
326<br />
Palmetto<br />
to wax works<br />
by Jason Frost<br />
of Easley, S.C.<br />
— Hand poured soy<br />
candles and engraved<br />
wooden signs. Booth<br />
120<br />
Blue Ridge<br />
Designs by Noelle<br />
McInemey of<br />
Landrum, S.C. —<br />
Jewelry, wreaths etc.<br />
Booths 204, 205<br />
Spoonful of<br />
Memories by<br />
Brenda Howard<br />
of Batesburg-<br />
Leesville, S.C.<br />
— Jewelry. Booths<br />
414, 415<br />
Edged out by<br />
Tiffany Bledsoe<br />
of Hodges, S.C.<br />
— Wood and medal<br />
monograms and yard stakes. Booths 310,<br />
311<br />
Classy Glass by Sandra Jones<br />
of Woodfuff, S.C. — Glass art made from<br />
vintage and recycle glass. Booth 308<br />
Breezy Danielle by Breezy Cain<br />
of Piedmont, S.C. — Paintings, watercolor,<br />
acrylic, oil, landscapes. Booth 404<br />
The Soap Fairies by Jody Levin<br />
of Taylors, S.C. — French-milled castile<br />
soaps, salves, lotions, herbal pillows and salt<br />
scrubs. Booths 633, 634<br />
Wire Jewelry Elegance by Elizabeth<br />
Jones of Franklin, N.C. — Necklaces,<br />
pendants, earrings, rings and bracelets<br />
using stones and beads on sterling silver and<br />
14kt gold and copper wire. Booth 231<br />
Moribells Face and Body Art by<br />
Maribell Sarate of Rutherfordton,<br />
N.C. — Professional face painting, airbrush<br />
tattoos. Booth 546<br />
BeeLee Bags by Betsy Gaskin<br />
Lester of Columbia, S.C. — Cotton<br />
washable tote bags. Booth 236<br />
Crafts By Janice Simmons of<br />
Kingsport, Tenn. — Assorted fabric<br />
items such as walker aprons, dining scarves,<br />
bibs, bowl covers, and tote bags. Booths<br />
227, 228<br />
June’s Doggie Boutique by June<br />
Kelly of Butler, Tenn. — Dog items such<br />
as dresses, coats and bandanas. Booths<br />
229, 230<br />
Dina Cubbage of Pickens, S.C. —<br />
Metal and wood upcycled signs and flowers<br />
and furniture. Booth 608<br />
Twisted Trails by Madison and<br />
Chris McGee of Monroe, Ga. — Dog<br />
and cat bananas, bow ties, leashes, custom<br />
pet accessories. Booth 616<br />
Wisteria Place by Teresa Herrington<br />
of Taylors, S.C. — Fairy houses,<br />
fairy lanterns and garden globes. Booths<br />
626, 627<br />
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N. Catherine<br />
Street<br />
No Amphitheater<br />
gAAAmpjs, and<br />
vendor<br />
Entertainment<br />
Aextinguisher if<br />
using generator.<br />
Stage<br />
Businesses<br />
<strong>2018</strong> AZALEA FESTIVAL<br />
Entertainment at the Amphitheater<br />
Portable<br />
Restrooms<br />
Cart<br />
Transportation<br />
Businesses<br />
Ann St.<br />
Hwy. 178<br />
Main Street Businesses<br />
Booth 400’s in this area<br />
CLOSED<br />
Booth 300’s in this area<br />
--<br />
--<br />
West Main (power outlets only)<br />
----------------<br />
Booth 500’s in this<br />
area<br />
----------------<br />
One traffic<br />
Way<br />
-----------<br />
Booth 200’s in th<br />
--------------- -------<br />
S. Catherine<br />
Street<br />
Booth 600’s<br />
in this area<br />
Main Street<br />
Businesses<br />
Garvin Street<br />
CLOSED<br />
Booth 600’s in this<br />
area<br />
Domino’s<br />
<strong>Festival</strong><br />
Parking<br />
-----------------------<br />
Pendleton Street<br />
Hwy. 178<br />
CLOSED<br />
Booth 100’s in<br />
this area<br />
Pickens<br />
County<br />
Court House<br />
Behind<br />
Court House<br />
Cedar Rock street<br />
Aza<br />
-<br />
Booths – 100’s, 200’s, & 300’s will need to travel onto Cedar Rock Street then<br />
ENTER at South Lewis Street on to Main Street. When you finish unloading, you<br />
will need to EXIT at Hwy 178 (Pendleton Street) just past Court House.<br />
Booths – 400’s, 500’s, & 600’s will need to travel onto Cedar Rock Street and<br />
ENTER at Hwy 178 (Pendleton Street). When you finish unloading, you will need<br />
to EXIT at Garvin Street.<br />
Map infor<br />
Portable R<br />
Street Na<br />
Hwy. in GR<br />
Booth sec<br />
Barricades
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Legacy Square<br />
Carnival area<br />
- -------------<br />
Hwy.<br />
is area<br />
le’s r salefor sale<br />
Court<br />
st.<br />
st.<br />
rtable<br />
trooms Portable<br />
Restrooms<br />
Court<br />
Street<br />
NO SMOKING EVENT!<br />
------<br />
TD<br />
Bank<br />
Booths 100’s<br />
this area<br />
PARKING<br />
Bank of America<br />
CLOSED<br />
NO SMOKING EVENT!<br />
ea<br />
Street<br />
TD<br />
Bank<br />
Booths 100’s<br />
this area<br />
PARKING<br />
Bank of America<br />
CLOSED<br />
N. Lewis<br />
Street<br />
N. Lewis<br />
Street<br />
S. Lewis Street<br />
Portable Restrooms<br />
Legacy Square<br />
Carnival area<br />
-------------<br />
S. Lewis Street<br />
Portable Restrooms<br />
183<br />
Hwy.<br />
183<br />
East Main Street<br />
East Main Street<br />
-------------<br />
-------------<br />
First Baptist<br />
Church<br />
Grace Methodist<br />
Church<br />
First Baptist<br />
Church<br />
Grace Methodist<br />
Church<br />
SED<br />
---------------------<br />
CLOSED<br />
CLOSED<br />
CLOSED<br />
Pit<br />
Shop<br />
Hwy. 8<br />
----------------------<br />
ion<br />
CVS<br />
oms<br />
Pit<br />
Shop<br />
CVS<br />
Hwy. 8<br />
Vendor Drop In (outside)<br />
mation<br />
in RED<br />
circle Next to Dr Spearman’s Office<br />
in<br />
estrooms<br />
BLACK box Near the Pickens County Court House on Court st.<br />
d of festival area (Sat. morning<br />
mes<br />
Vendor 7:00am Drop – In 9:00am) (outside)<br />
in RED<br />
EEN circle Next to Bowers Dr Spearman’s Signature Services Office will be providing free shuttle<br />
tions in BLACK box Near the Pickens transportation County to Court Hagood House Mill’s April on 21 Court event. Pickups st. will begin<br />
at 10:30 a.m. and run every 30 minutes from the corner of Main<br />
/ end of festival area (Sat. morning Street and Ann 7:00am Street, just west – 9:00am)<br />
of the amphitheater. Look for the<br />
signs for both pickup and dropoff. Shuttles will run until 3:30 p.m.<br />
Arby’s Walgreens<br />
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Arby’s Walgreens<br />
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Street closings,<br />
parking and<br />
other general<br />
information<br />
Wednesday night, April 18<br />
Legacy Square will closed to the public after<br />
Pickens First Baptist Church services.<br />
Friday, April 20 at 5:30 p.m.<br />
Eastbound traffic on West Main Street will<br />
be detoured beginning at the inter<strong>section</strong> of West<br />
Main and Catherine Street.<br />
Friday, April 20 at 6 p.m.<br />
The inter<strong>section</strong> of S.C. Highway 8 and S.C. 183<br />
(near McDonald’s), all of East and West Main, East<br />
and South Lewis, Pendleton Street, U.S. Highway 178<br />
inter<strong>section</strong>s, Ann Street and Garvin Street to inter<strong>section</strong><br />
of Catherine Street will be closed to regular<br />
vehicle street traffic. There will be traffic detours<br />
on Ann Street/U.S. 178. Look for detour signs. The<br />
above streets will remain closed to regular vehicle<br />
traffic until midnight Saturday, April 21. All streets<br />
will reopen to regular traffic at midnight Saturday.<br />
All closings have been approved by the city<br />
of Pickens and the Pickens Police Department. It<br />
will be the responsibility of the business owner to<br />
mark all parking spaces behind their businesses for<br />
employees/customers. Contact the Pickens Police<br />
Department for two-hour parking enforcement<br />
during the cruise-in on Friday if necessary.<br />
Restrooms and handwashing stations are<br />
located throughout the festival area — Legacy<br />
Square, near the amusement rides; Beside the old<br />
Bank of America building at the corner of East<br />
Main and Lewis Street; Court Street beside the<br />
Pickens County Courthouse; in the amphitheater<br />
top parking lot and on West Main Street in front<br />
of the old furniture store beside the white house.<br />
Handicapped parking will be at the corner of<br />
Cedar Rock Street and Court Street behind the Pickens<br />
County Courthouse — please look for signs.<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> information booths will be located<br />
on Main Street in front on the courthouse and at<br />
the inter<strong>section</strong> of Main Street and Garvin Street<br />
near the new amphitheater sign. Please look for<br />
the information banner signs. If you have questions,<br />
please see any festival committee member.<br />
They will be patroling the festival area on golf<br />
carts.<br />
General festival parking is located beside the<br />
Pickens County Courthouse just off Cedar Rock<br />
Street and two parkings lots on Lewis Street.<br />
Cart transportation will be available during the<br />
festival this year at the new amphitheater sign on<br />
West Main Street to the bottom parking lot of the<br />
amphitheater. Please ask for assistance if needed.
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crafts<br />
From Page 11<br />
throws, aprons, hand towels and blankets.<br />
Booth 122<br />
Mamie Belle’s by Amanda Page<br />
of Pickens, S.C. — Bath bombs and fizzies.<br />
Booth 234<br />
Wallflower Art by Lisa Keys of<br />
Traveler’s Rest — Hand painted mixed<br />
media arts. Booth 124<br />
Simply Irresistible Custom<br />
Gourds by<br />
Kathie Jackson<br />
of Gaffney, S.C.<br />
— Birdhouses, lights,<br />
bowls, and animals<br />
made from gourds.<br />
Booth 112<br />
Simply Spoken<br />
Design by<br />
Regina Hemsley<br />
of Weaverville,<br />
N.C. — Reclaimed<br />
barn wood signs and<br />
designs. Booth 113<br />
Kats Creations<br />
by<br />
Katheryn Pace<br />
of Liberty, S.C.<br />
— Diamond painting<br />
kits, hand painted<br />
rocks and records,<br />
magnets and more.<br />
Booth 114<br />
Casa Creations<br />
by Lisa<br />
Springfield of Gray Court, S.C. —<br />
Marshmallow shooters, bakery candles, cedar<br />
wine racks, painted saw blades and mosquito<br />
houses. Booths 115, 116<br />
Sissy’s by Joy Plumbley of<br />
Townville, S.C. — American Girl clothes,<br />
Chinese Arts and Crafts by<br />
Jane Gue of<br />
Central, S.C. —<br />
Booth 328<br />
ETC’s by<br />
William Howell<br />
of Pikeville N.C.<br />
— Tie-dyed clothes.<br />
Booth 406,407<br />
Crystal’s<br />
Apothecary<br />
Creations by<br />
Crystal Mahaney<br />
of Enoree,<br />
S.C. — Booth 302<br />
Pat’s Place<br />
by Lana Spradley<br />
— Purses and<br />
quilts. Booth 313<br />
Totally<br />
Groovy Jewelry<br />
by Jan Haire of<br />
Pelzer, S.C. —<br />
Handmade jewelry,<br />
hairbows, wreaths<br />
and vinyl decorations. Booth 315<br />
OK Handmade Products by<br />
Yolanda Pelzer of Aiken, S.C. —<br />
Booth 513<br />
Unique Pocket Change by Brad<br />
Evatt of Liberty, S.C. — Coin, bottlecap<br />
and vintage jewelry. Booth 535<br />
Country Bumpkins by Karne<br />
Remter of Lowndesville, S.C. — Deco<br />
mesh and burlap wreaths, wooden door<br />
hangers, and silk florals. Booth 550<br />
Cobblestone Soaps by Suzan<br />
Cauble of Anderson, S.C. — Handmade<br />
soaps. Booth 552<br />
Custom Silks by Lynn McClain<br />
of Salem, S.C. — Silk floral arrangements.<br />
Booth 321<br />
DB’s Glass Shack by Daniel<br />
Brown of Morganton, N.C. — Has<br />
See CRAFTS, Page 15
April 20-21, <strong>2018</strong> <strong>2018</strong> <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> • Pickens County Courier Page 15<br />
crafts<br />
From Page 14<br />
handmade glass and mirror terrariums, with<br />
cactus and air plants. Booth 441<br />
Palmetto Custom Metal and<br />
Woodcraft by Jimmy Williams of<br />
Seneca, S.C. — Plasma cut metal art.<br />
Booths 225, 226<br />
Statement String Art by Rob<br />
Brown of Greenville, S.C. — String art<br />
of S.C. and DIY string art kits made from<br />
wood, nails and string. Booth 123<br />
Carolona Organics Samples by<br />
Misty Bridges of Pickens, S.C. — Has<br />
handcrafted artisan soaps. Booth 515<br />
Seneca, S.C. — Has<br />
mugs, bowls, planters<br />
etc. Booth 527<br />
Whipping Up<br />
Fairy Tales by<br />
Kasey Finley of<br />
Easley, S.C. — Has<br />
crocheted flowers,<br />
headbands, beanies.<br />
Booth 537<br />
NaNa’s Custom<br />
Crafts by<br />
Pamela Johnson<br />
of Chesnee, S.C. —<br />
Has wooden benches<br />
from ash and maple.<br />
Booth 512<br />
Rose and The Cat Lady by Charlotte<br />
Webster of Cleveland, S.C. —<br />
Has handmade jewelry. Booth 561<br />
Catblack917 by Claudia Black of<br />
Greer, S.C. —<br />
Has wine glasses,<br />
candle holders etc.<br />
Booth 530<br />
Roy Jolley<br />
of Boiling<br />
Springs, S.C.<br />
— Has puppetts,<br />
marshmallow<br />
shooters. Booth<br />
554<br />
After<br />
Hours Pottery<br />
by Jensen<br />
Harris of<br />
The Twisted<br />
Hippie Boutique<br />
by Molly Bryson<br />
of Six Mile, S.C. —<br />
Has clothes, jewelry<br />
and gifts. Booth 529<br />
Himalayan<br />
Artisans Co. by<br />
Jayanti Magar of<br />
Zirconia, N.C. —<br />
Has handmade jewelry.<br />
Booth. 613<br />
Harper<br />
Lane Bouttik by<br />
Brandie Riddle of Williamson, S.C. —<br />
Has buddle gum necklaces, bubble gum bead<br />
bracelets etc. Booths 518, 519<br />
Beautiful Inspirations by Brielk<br />
Suttles of Pickens, S.C. — Has Car<br />
Decals. Booth 409<br />
Modern Forestry by John Collins<br />
— Homemade candles. Booth 533<br />
Crafts Needles and Threads by<br />
Alma Crawford of Pendleton, S.C. —<br />
Has homemade kids clothes. Blankets, bears<br />
crafts, all handmade. Booth 207
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<strong>Azalea</strong>s for sale<br />
<strong>Azalea</strong>s will be for sale<br />
all weekend at the 34th annual<br />
<strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> in Pickens.<br />
Look for them beside the<br />
Pickens County Courhouse<br />
on Court Street.<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> T-shirts<br />
available<br />
T-shirts featuring the official <strong>2018</strong> <strong>Azalea</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> artwork, drawn by Pickens<br />
High School sophomore Hayley Brown,<br />
will be on sale Saturday at the festival.<br />
The shirts will be sold at Booth 222 by the<br />
Pickens Rotary Club.<br />
Cart transportation will be available during the festival this year at the new amphitheater<br />
sign on West Main Street to the bottom parking lot of the amphitheater.<br />
Please ask for assistance if needed.<br />
Bowers Signature Services will be providing free shuttle transportation to Hagood<br />
Mill’s April 21 event. Pickups will begin at 10:30 a.m. and run every 30 minutes<br />
from the corner of Main Street and Ann Street, just west of the amphitheater. Look<br />
for the signs for both pickup and dropoff. Shuttles will run until 3:30 p.m.<br />
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Pickens Railroad History<br />
The Easley-Pickens line was chartered on<br />
Dec. 24, 1890 by the South Carolina General<br />
Assembly after two failed attempts to build a<br />
railroad through Pickens from Easley. The line<br />
connected with the Atlanta and Charlotte Air<br />
Line Railroad (later the Southern Railway) and<br />
was completed in 1898.<br />
On the railroad’s first revenue run, the<br />
Pickens Railroad suffered a serious derailment<br />
that was caused by a local group of boys that<br />
had placed spikes on the rails, in their words,<br />
“to see what would happen.” No one was<br />
seriously injured, but the incident caused the<br />
fledgling company a serious financial setback,<br />
leaving it to operate in the red until 1905.<br />
In its early years, it was nicknamed the<br />
“Pickens Doodle” because the train would run<br />
backward to Easley and forward to Pickens,<br />
which “looked like a doodlebug,” according to<br />
FIRST TRIP OF THE PICKENS DOODLE, MAY 1898<br />
PICKENS DOODLE, 1955<br />
area residents. The Pickens Railroad at the time<br />
did not have turning facilities until the line built<br />
two wye <strong>section</strong>s of track at each end of the<br />
line years later.<br />
The Southern Railway briefly acquired<br />
control of the Pickens around 1910, however,<br />
it was reverted to local interests several years<br />
later.<br />
In the 1920s, Singer Manufacturing located<br />
a sewing machine cabinet plant on the Pickens<br />
Railroad. The plant eventually became the<br />
railroad’s biggest customer, and the line was<br />
purchased outright in 1939 by Singer. In 1927,<br />
the Appalachian Lumber Company built a network<br />
of logging lines in hte upper portion of<br />
Pickens County. By 1939, it too was acquired<br />
by Singer and organized under the Poinsett<br />
Lumber and Manufacturing Company. Passenger<br />
service was discontinued in 1928 as better<br />
roads were built in the region.<br />
In 1959, the Singer Company consolidated<br />
its sawmill and cabinet operations with<br />
the woodworking operations from Arkansas<br />
and the Craftsman power tools from New Jersey<br />
to the Pickens location. Several years later<br />
(in 1963), Poinsett Lumber and Manufacturing<br />
Company had announced that the Pickens<br />
Railroad was for sale. James F. Jones of North<br />
Carolina purchased the line for approximately<br />
$50,000. Jones built a new enginehouse and established<br />
a carshop for rebuilding and renovating<br />
railroad cars. Jones sold the Pickens in 1973<br />
to Philadelphia-based National Railway Utilization<br />
Company (NRUC), which expanded the<br />
carshop to build new freight cars.<br />
In the early 1990s, NRUC became Emergent<br />
Group and sold the railroad to CLC-Chattahoochee<br />
Locomotive Corp., which renamed<br />
the railroad Pickens Railway Company, according<br />
to the Federal Register, May 1, 1996. On<br />
April 2, 2013, Pickens Railway pulled the last<br />
train to Easley because of lack of business.<br />
The final run was pulled by Pickens #9502 and<br />
CLCX #12132. The last train ended an era of<br />
more than 100 years of running to Easley.<br />
The Doodle Trail<br />
The Doodle Trail, a 7.5-mile rails-totrails<br />
partnership between the City<br />
of Easley and the City of Pickens,<br />
opened Memorial Day Weekend 2015.<br />
The multi-use trail is open from dawn<br />
to dusk for biking, walking, running<br />
and rollerblading. Unauthorized mopeds or motorized<br />
vehicles are not permitted on the trail.<br />
The Doodle line carries a rich history of<br />
industry and economy important to both the city<br />
of Pickens and the city of Easley. In 1890, the<br />
State of South Carolina issued a charter for the<br />
construction of a railroad between Easley and<br />
Oolenoy Gap, by way of Pickens. After eight<br />
years of construction, the 8.5-mile portion of<br />
the railway between Easley and Pickens became<br />
operational in 1898. Until 2013, the Doodle line<br />
hauled a variety of commodities to and from<br />
Pickens and Easley, including food products, textiles,<br />
and automobile parts. Local residents nicknamed<br />
the railroad the “Pickens Doodle” line,<br />
because the freight engine could not be turned<br />
around and had to run backwards from Easley to<br />
Pickens, looking like a doodlebug.<br />
The Doodle Trail represents the opportunity<br />
to carry on the memory of this historic railroad<br />
and preserve the vital connection that was forged<br />
between Easley and Pickens more than 120 years<br />
ago. The two cities have respective trailheads at<br />
each end of the Doodle Trail.
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THE Hagood-Mauldin HouSE, owned<br />
and maintained by the Pickens County<br />
Historical Society, it was moved from Pickens<br />
Court House to the new town of Pickens in<br />
1868. It underwent two separate renovations,<br />
added. The fine<br />
(Tour Fee Required)<br />
one by James Earle Hagood, and the second<br />
by Judge and Miss Queen Hagood Mauldin<br />
when the front porch was changed into<br />
Classical Style and the Judge’s office was<br />
antique furnishings and<br />
art were added by Irma Morris.<br />
The historic house will be open for public<br />
tours during the <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> 10am - 4pm,<br />
Saturday: $5.00 for adult, $2.00 for students<br />
The Hagood-Mauldin House, owned and<br />
maintained by the Pickens County Historical<br />
Society, it was moved from Pickens Court<br />
House to the new town of Pickens in 1868.<br />
It underwent two separate renovations,<br />
one by James Earle Hagood, and the second<br />
by Judge and Miss Queen Hagood Mauldin<br />
when the front porch was changed into Classical<br />
Style and the Judge’s office was added.<br />
The fine antique furnishings and art were<br />
added by Irma Morris. The historic house will<br />
be open for public tours during the <strong>Azalea</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong>. The fee will be $5 for adults and $2<br />
for students from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.<br />
[ THings To see ]<br />
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onE of THE finEST regional examples<br />
of nineteenth century technology can be<br />
found just three miles north of Pickens, South<br />
Carolina. Located just off Highway 178, at 138<br />
Hagood Mill Road, this 1845 gristmill served<br />
many generations of rural farm families until<br />
its’ closing in the mid-1960s.<br />
Hagood Mill<br />
(Free Tours)<br />
1973 the mill and it’s surrounding property<br />
One of the finest regional examples of<br />
Hagood Mill operated during the War were donated to the Pickens County Museum<br />
19th century technology<br />
Commission<br />
can be found<br />
by the James<br />
just<br />
Hagood<br />
three<br />
Bruce<br />
family (descendants of James Hagood, who<br />
miles north of Pickens. Located built the mill in 1845 just at the off age of Highway<br />
178, at 138 Hagood Carolina Mill was Road, one of the states this that 1845 made an<br />
nineteen).<br />
Additionally, in the early 1970s, South<br />
exemption for water-powered gristmills to<br />
gristmill served many generations operate. Thus began of a rural long on-again, farm offagain<br />
restoration process by the County of<br />
families until its closing in Pickens. the The mid-1960s.<br />
culmination of these restoration<br />
efforts put the mill “back in business”<br />
Hagood Mill operated mode (at least during on a monthly the basis) War around<br />
Thanksgiving 1996, thanks to the help of<br />
Between the States; The Alan Warner, Spanish who served / as miller American<br />
War; World War I; over World sixty gristmill War sites in Pickens II; The County…<br />
until 2009.<br />
Warner, a mill historian, has documented<br />
almost all of which are now gone.<br />
Korean War and part of<br />
Hagood<br />
the<br />
Mill<br />
Vietnam<br />
is located just off<br />
War.<br />
Highway<br />
178, at 138 Hagood Mill Road. The mill will<br />
In the 1960s, the federal government passed<br />
be in operation during the <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
10am – 4pm.<br />
regulations requiring the farmers’ corn to<br />
be tested before grinding, and also, requiring<br />
preservatives. This effectively shut down<br />
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most of the gristmills nationwide and Pickens<br />
County was no exception.<br />
In 1972, Hagood Mill was placed on the<br />
National Register of Historic Places and in<br />
1973 the mill and surrounding property were<br />
donated to the Pickens County Museum<br />
Between the States; The Spanish / American<br />
War; World War I; World War II; The Korean<br />
War and part of the Vietnam War. In the<br />
1960s, the Federal Government passed<br />
regulations requiring that farmers’ corn be<br />
tested before grinding, and also requiring<br />
the use of preservatives. This effectively<br />
shut down most of the gristmills nationwide<br />
and Hagood Mill in Pickens County was no<br />
exception.<br />
In 1972 Hagood Mill was placed on the<br />
National Register of Historic Places and in<br />
Commission by the James Hagood Bruce<br />
family (descendants of James Hagood who<br />
built the mill in 1845 at the age of 19).<br />
Also in the early 1970s, South Carolina<br />
was one of the states that made an exemption<br />
for water-powered gristmills to operate.<br />
Thus began a long off-again, on-again process<br />
of restoration by Pickens County, culminating<br />
with the mill being “back in business” on a<br />
monthly basis around Thanksgiving 1996 with<br />
the help of Alan Warner, who served as miller<br />
until 2009. Warner, a mill historian, has documented<br />
more than 60 gristmill sites in Pickens<br />
County … almost all of which are now gone.<br />
The mill be in operation during the <strong>Azalea</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.<br />
Pickens County Museum<br />
of Art & History<br />
(Free Tours)<br />
The Pickens County Cultural Commission<br />
monitors operation of the Pickens<br />
County Museum of Art & History as a public,<br />
nonprofit educational institution whose<br />
purpose is to collect, preserve, exhibit and<br />
interpret the artifacts, antiquities and archival,<br />
cultural and natural history of the County<br />
and surrounding geographic region.<br />
The cultural commission also provides<br />
cultural enrichment, intellectual stimulation,<br />
learning opportunities and appreciation of<br />
the visual and performing arts for the enjoyment<br />
of the County’s citizenry and visitors.<br />
The Museum Shop offers the work of<br />
more than 100 local and regional fine, traditional<br />
and folk artisans that represents the<br />
artistic spectrum of our unique area — including<br />
handcrafted jewelry, pottery, ceramics,<br />
baskets, scarves and handbags, woodcarvings,<br />
colorful prints and originals, Native American<br />
art, note cards, folk art, soaps, beeswax<br />
candles, locally harvested honey, handmade<br />
children’s toys and other specialty items.<br />
The Museum Shop features a wide array<br />
of CDs from local Upcountry musicians,<br />
and fascinating storytellers, early American<br />
and World music. We also offer a variety of<br />
educational and historical toys, as well as an<br />
assortment of books on local history and local<br />
interest for all ages.<br />
The museum is located at 307 Johnson<br />
St., across from Pickens City Hall. It will be<br />
open Saturday of the <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> from 9<br />
a.m.-4:30 p.m.<br />
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MUSEUM, and the PICKENS AZALEA<br />
FESTIVAL are proud to present the Pickens<br />
Historical Tours.<br />
In Pickens as in most towns, there is<br />
progress. This town is no different. There are<br />
sites where buildings stood and where events<br />
happened. Some of the buildings are still<br />
around today. This is a tour of those buildings<br />
and places.<br />
HAGOOD-MAULDIN HOUSE —<br />
The home was built in “Old Pickens” and<br />
later moved to this location in 1868, when the<br />
Pickens District was divided into Oconee and<br />
Pickens counties. Col. James E. Hagood was<br />
the owner of the home, and was the first Clerk<br />
of Court of Pickens District. He was one of<br />
the commission men who located the site for<br />
the new courthouse, and after living for many<br />
years in the present Pickens, died in 1904.<br />
When his daughter, Frances Miles Hagood,<br />
called “Miss Queen” by many, was married in<br />
1904 to Judge T.J. Mauldin, the couple settled<br />
in this home. Judge Mauldin was the son of<br />
the first sheriff in Pickens County and was<br />
named the Judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit<br />
of South Carolina. Mrs. Mauldin was no less<br />
outstanding as a club woman, humanitarian,<br />
and social leader. She was a prime mover in<br />
the development of the Tamassee-D.A.R.<br />
School in Oconee County. The PICKENS<br />
COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY —<br />
inherited this lovely home and volunteers open<br />
every 3rd Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tours<br />
are $2 for adults and $1 for students. During<br />
the festival, the museum will be open from 8<br />
a.m. until 4 p.m., at which time the Pickens<br />
Historical Society will be holding a yard sale<br />
as well as giving tours. Come join the society.<br />
Dues are $5 per individual, $10 per couple.<br />
COLONIAL HOUSE — In 1903<br />
Ben A. Hagood, son of J.E. Hagood, built<br />
this large summer home. The Ben Hagood<br />
family lived in Charleston and wanted to get<br />
away from the oppressive heat and the malaria<br />
carrying mosquitoes that came to the low<br />
country in the summer months. Each year<br />
the family would travel by carriage over rough<br />
roads to stay at their summer retreat until cool<br />
weather returned. The home, with its beautiful<br />
grounds and large stable in the back, was the<br />
show place of the country and a hub of social<br />
activity. Later, when Mr. and Mrs. Hagood’s<br />
children were grown, the Gallie Friend family<br />
bought the home in 1926. Mr. Friend had<br />
come to Pickens to work for the Appalachian<br />
Lumber Company.In the mid-1930s, the<br />
house with its surrounding land was purchased<br />
by Mozelle Cole for her parents, Mamie and<br />
Charles White, to manage as a boarding house.<br />
In those days the Whites boarded mostly local<br />
school teachers who paid $1 a day for meals<br />
and a room. First called White’s Hotel and<br />
then the Colonial House, the structure served<br />
the public until it closed in 1985.<br />
108 GLASSY MOUNTAIN STREET<br />
— Built in the late 1890s, this house is one<br />
of the oldest homes in Pickens. In 1977 it<br />
was moved from the northern end of Glassy<br />
Mountain Street to its present location. The<br />
porch across the front was removed, the<br />
exterior otherwise restored.<br />
111 GLASSY MOUNTAIN STREET<br />
(Brackett Home) was built in 1938 by<br />
Dr. and Mrs. W.C. Brackett. The style of<br />
the home is reflected in the fact that Mrs.<br />
Brackett was from the low-country, Edisto<br />
Island, South Carolina. The architect was<br />
Dr. Sams, Dean of Architecture at Clemson<br />
College (now University). This home was<br />
purchased in 1965 by Norman and Evelyn<br />
Kennemer. Norman Kennemer is a former<br />
Mayor of Pickens.<br />
112 GLASSY MOUNTAIN STREET<br />
(Bivens Home) — Was built in 1942 by<br />
Mayor and Mrs. A.W. Bivens. Bivens was the<br />
mayor of Pickens from 1946-1952.<br />
PICKENS MILL BAPTIST<br />
CHURCH — The formation date given<br />
for Pickens Mill Baptist Church was Oct.<br />
14, 1908; however, the Rev. Crawford was<br />
holding services at the Mill as early as May.<br />
The present sanctuary was built in 1957 and<br />
is now called East Pickens Baptist Church.<br />
The home of the new East Pickens Baptist<br />
Church is located across from the YMCA on<br />
Highway 8.<br />
THE MILL VILLAGE — For the<br />
most part, the first employees of the Pickens<br />
Mill came from the mountain farms and<br />
were familiar with the early American way of<br />
MAIN STREET PICKENS, 1920s-1930s<br />
spinning and weaving. Mill work was easy for<br />
them to learn. Construction of the mill and<br />
60 houses started in the summer of 1906<br />
and was completed in the summer of 1907.<br />
As production increased, other houses were<br />
added, and in 1927, a night shift was put on,<br />
and 65 houses were added.<br />
719 E. CEDAR ROCK STREET —<br />
This home was built in 1907 for Clarence<br />
Bruce Hagood, who was president of the<br />
Pickens Mill. In 1915, Author Jewell moved<br />
in when the Pickens Mill was bought by<br />
Mayfair. Over the years, Mayfair furnished<br />
the house for upper management. Early in<br />
1991, Mayfair decided to sell the house. It is<br />
now a private residence.<br />
524 E. CEDAR ROCK STREET<br />
— Constructed in 1904 for Dr. Bolt, it was<br />
OLD PICKENS HIGH SCHOOL<br />
purchased in 1920 by O.T. Hinton Sr. O.T.<br />
Hinton Sr. was the manager of Duke Power<br />
at the time and during his career also was the<br />
founder of the Pickens Insurance Company<br />
and served for a time as the County Treasurer.<br />
Mr. Hinton and his wife, Lois, raised six<br />
children in this house. Martha Dunn, the<br />
youngest child, says she has many wonderful<br />
memories associated with this house. In fact,<br />
she says, she and her brothers, Joel and O.T. Jr.<br />
were born in the front room. Martha’s other<br />
brothers and a sister are Calhoun (a former<br />
Mayor of Pickens), Trescott, and Corrine.<br />
508 E. CEDAR ROCK STREET —<br />
Built in 1904 by Mr. T. L. Bivens, Sr.. At a<br />
later date, a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Bivens<br />
Wannamaker and family occupied the house<br />
until the early 1960s.<br />
FIRST BRICK HOUSE — Built for<br />
J.T. Taylor in 1908, on E. Cedar Rock Street<br />
across from the school site. Residing there for<br />
many years was his daughter, Mrs. Lorena T.<br />
King, who wrote for The Pickens Sentinel. In<br />
1968 she said, “Young people today complain<br />
of the lack of things to do and places to go.<br />
We didn’t have much to do but we were happy.<br />
We had our chores, and as for entertainment<br />
sometimes there was an ice cream supper<br />
on the courthouse grounds. The ice cream<br />
was homemade and hand-churned. A large<br />
dish full for five cents. Then, there were the<br />
molasses candy pullings at the school house.<br />
The candy was cooked on an old iron stove.<br />
Everyone was there and all the children pulled<br />
candy. It was a fine way to get your hands<br />
clean. For the young ladies and gentlemen,<br />
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there was the croquet ground by the side of<br />
the Methodist Church, a very popular place. In<br />
those days the school rooms weren’t too warm<br />
and often hands were raised for permission to<br />
go to the stove to get warm. All the boys wore<br />
short pants and the girls knee-length dresses<br />
until their teens, then the boys put on long<br />
pants and the girls wore mid-length dresses. I<br />
have seen ladies up town with dresses on that<br />
had trails sweeping up the dust and dirt on<br />
the streets. These are a few of the things that<br />
I remember about the early days of Pickens.”<br />
PICKENS CENTRALIZED HIGH<br />
SCHOOL — Built in 1904, Mrs. Lorena<br />
King said, “I remember when the brick<br />
school was built on E. Cedar Rock Street.<br />
This <strong>section</strong> was in the woods with a <strong>small</strong><br />
road going through the woods. There<br />
were four classrooms downstairs and two<br />
classrooms and an auditorium upstairs.<br />
When it was completed, the wife of the<br />
school superintendent said, ‘Well, we could<br />
use it for a summer hotel because there will<br />
never be enough children in Pickens to fill it.’<br />
” In early years the school had first through<br />
tenth grades, then was a combined junior<br />
and high school until 1954, when the current<br />
Pickens Middle School was built as the high<br />
school.. It was the junior high until January<br />
1968. The school was torn down in the ’70s.<br />
THE HIAWATHA HOTEL — This<br />
hotel was built in 1903 and was a popular<br />
summer resort for the low country people.<br />
In telling about the hotel, Mrs. Lorena<br />
King said, “There were no refrigeration,<br />
ice was unknown. When the Hiawatha<br />
Hotel opened they had open house and to<br />
everyone’s amazement the center piece on<br />
the refreshment table was a 50-pound block<br />
of ice. That was really something new.”<br />
Presently the building is occupied by offices,<br />
but still has a few very nicely remodeled<br />
rooms upstairs for weekly or monthly<br />
boarders.<br />
TAYLOR STEWART BUILDING<br />
— Taylor Stewart built the brick building<br />
next to the Pickens Hotel (formerly the<br />
Hiawatha Hotel) in 1932. It is now owned<br />
by Grace United Methodist Church as Grace<br />
House.<br />
PICKENS COURT HOUSE<br />
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH<br />
SOUTH — The Methodist Church was<br />
organized in 1868. The first place of worship<br />
was the one-room office of Attorney J.E.<br />
Hagood, located east of the courthouse.<br />
This was the first church in the new town<br />
and services were attended by people of all<br />
denominations. In 1871 J.E. Hagood gave<br />
the land for the first church building. A <strong>small</strong><br />
white frame building with its appropriate<br />
steeple faced west and nestled in a pine<br />
grove in the northeast corner of the present<br />
parking lot. The second edifice, of brick<br />
construction, begun in 1911 was the same site<br />
as the present church. Its large and beautiful<br />
stained glass windows were outstanding. It<br />
was completely destroyed by fire in 1945.<br />
Following this devastating tragedy church<br />
services were held in the Pickens School<br />
building, on East Cedar Rock Street. The<br />
present church (Grace United Methodist)<br />
was dedicated in 1949. Note: There are quite<br />
a few older churches in the area outside of<br />
the town of Pickens. For example, Secona<br />
Baptist Church, located two miles west of<br />
Pickens, had its beginning in 1786.<br />
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH —<br />
On Saturday afternoon, May 16, 1891, 29<br />
persons gathered in the Pickens Presbyterian<br />
Church to organize a Baptist church for<br />
the town of Pickens. The Rev. Stewart<br />
contributed a lot for a building on West<br />
Main Street, and a <strong>small</strong> white frame house<br />
of worship was completed in 1893. In<br />
1913 the present lot was purchased. The<br />
second house of worship, built on this lot<br />
in 1924, was brick and fronted with four<br />
white columns. Experiencing steady growth,<br />
the 1924 structure was torn away to permit<br />
construction of this new sanctuary. One of<br />
the features is a 120-foot lighted steeple.<br />
FINDLEY HOME — This lovely<br />
brick home at 206 Hampton Avenue The<br />
original 8 room house was built in 1927 by<br />
William Elbert Findley who was an attorney.<br />
For many years now, Findley’s son, Earle,<br />
and his wife, Mary Louise, resided here. The<br />
honorable Earle W. Findley was mayor of<br />
Pickens from 1956-1977.<br />
McFALL HOME — This beautiful old<br />
home was built in 1908 by the former Vesta<br />
Mauldin, the widow of Waddy Thompson<br />
McFall. She was the daughter of the first<br />
sheriff and sister to Judge Mauldin. W.T.<br />
McFall came to Pickens to work with his<br />
brother James McFall, who conducted one<br />
of the first General Stores in Pickens. The<br />
Pickens Sentinel-Journal of Feb. 15, 1905<br />
said “Waddy T. McFall sold to more people<br />
hiawatha hotel<br />
on better terms, with less security than any<br />
other merchant in the Piedmont...He was the<br />
prime mover in establishing the first bank,<br />
then called ‘The Pickens Bank,’ and he helped<br />
organize the first oil mill and ginnery...At the<br />
time of his death he was mayor of the town.”<br />
Mrs. Lorena King reported in a later issue that<br />
“McFall died with pneumonia in 1905. At the<br />
request of the city fathers, everyone had a bow<br />
of black crepe on their front door knob. This<br />
was also strung across Main Street from store<br />
window to store.”<br />
HIOTT PRINTING CO. — The<br />
Pickens Sentinel newspaper was printed in<br />
this building from 1966 to 2001. The Hiott<br />
family first became associated with The<br />
Sentinel in 1912 when the late Rev. D.W.<br />
Hiott was asked to take over the paper. There<br />
were some lean years — especially during<br />
the Depression when the barter system just<br />
about kept the paper going. Fortunately, Mrs.<br />
Hiott was appointed Pickens Postmaster in<br />
the ’30s and much of her salary was used to<br />
supplement The Sentinel, although the payroll<br />
was only $27 per week; $25 to the Linotype<br />
operator and $2 for the printer. The paper was<br />
purchased by the Pickens County Publishing,<br />
Inc. in 1978, and by Crescent Media Group in<br />
2002. While no longer owners of the paper,<br />
the Hiott family has continued to operate the<br />
Printing Company.<br />
“PICKENS GAOL” (Old English<br />
spelling of jail) — Built in 1902 and<br />
now on the National Register of Historic<br />
Places, the Pickens County Gaol served<br />
as the county jail until 1975. The building<br />
was restored in 1976 and now houses the<br />
Pickens County Museum. Following a fire in<br />
1994, the museum was closed as repairs and<br />
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renovations were completed.<br />
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office occupied this space until 1960, when it<br />
moved to the present location on Pendleton<br />
Street. In 1994, the Post Office got a new<br />
home on Johnson Street.<br />
PIONEER LOG CABIN — Some<br />
people say this <strong>small</strong> cabin was built by pioneer<br />
Benjamin Hagood who came from Edgefield<br />
County to settle in the old Pendleton District<br />
near the present town of Pickens (Hagood Mill<br />
area). They say it was built before 1800, made<br />
of logs handhewn by slaves, with nails and<br />
hardware made in a home blacksmith shop. It<br />
was built with only two <strong>small</strong> windows, having<br />
no glass. It’s said the shutters fastened inside<br />
for protection against the native Americans.<br />
Some years ago, young Bill Davis of Pickens<br />
acquired the cabin and had it rebuilt at<br />
the home of his father, Harold Davis. It’s<br />
maintained here, furnished in rustic items of<br />
the period. The rock in the foreground is a<br />
native American relic, a soapstone containing<br />
a chisel bowl. The cabin has now been moved<br />
to the Hagood Mill site.<br />
FIRE DEPARTMENT HISTORY<br />
— The first Fire Department that Pickens had<br />
was an old two-wheel cart with a two and a half<br />
inch hose around the drum of the cart. In the<br />
first fire department in 1900 the captain was<br />
D.B. Finney. Later, police chief Hovey Nealy,<br />
pulled the cart many times behind his Model-T<br />
and later his A-Model Ford. About 1934, the<br />
city purchased a 1925 model Seagrave Fire<br />
Truck from the city of Danville, VA, which<br />
was the first fire truck Pickens ever had. The<br />
city was without an organized department<br />
until the year 1946. The Pickens Jaycees called<br />
a meeting at the old court house and Oliver<br />
Hughes was elected chief and Cy Rampey,<br />
assistant chief.<br />
GRIFFIN EBENEZER BAPTIST<br />
CHURCH — Marking a departure from<br />
antebellum practices, one of the lasting social<br />
changes brought about by circumstances of<br />
the Civil War was the growth of independent<br />
black congregations. Within the corporate<br />
limits of New Pickens, a prime example was<br />
Griffin Ebenezer Baptist Church, possibly the<br />
first congregation in town as well as the first<br />
group to build a structure solely as a church.<br />
Griffin Ebenezer’s members had heretofore<br />
attended white churches, such as Secona<br />
Baptist Church and others in the surrounding<br />
countryside. Griffin Ebenezer Baptist Church<br />
remained at its initial location on the corner of<br />
Garvin and Johnson Streets until 1879, when<br />
the congregation purchased a larger church<br />
site on the corner of Garvin and Lee Streets.<br />
A new sanctuary was dedicated in 2001.<br />
THE PICKENS BANK — The<br />
present building was built in 1910 and housed<br />
the Pickens Bank. In 1933, South Carolina<br />
National bought the building and later became<br />
Wachovia Bank. The bank is located at 431<br />
Ann Street.<br />
PICKENS<br />
COUNTY<br />
COURTHOUSE — The present<br />
courthouse is the third for the county. The<br />
first building had four large rooms and a wide<br />
hall on the first floor. The front had a portico<br />
and iron steps ascending from the ground to<br />
the courtroom on the second floor. The little<br />
building served until 1894 when it was razed<br />
after the construction of a new courthouse.<br />
The second structure, erected in 1891, was a<br />
larger two-story brick building which featured<br />
a ponderous tower. Two additions were made<br />
over the years, standing until 1959 when a<br />
move was engineered to build the county’s<br />
third and present courthouse.<br />
POST OFFICES ON MAIN<br />
STREET — A post office was established<br />
as Pickens C.H. on May 16, 1827. The name<br />
of the post office was changed to Pickens on<br />
January 30, 1894. A <strong>small</strong> wooden one-room<br />
office with a little porch was used for the post<br />
office. Another location was a <strong>small</strong> wooden<br />
frame building facing the Courthouse and<br />
it stood where later a barber shop and then<br />
Parrott’s Grocery Store was located. It is<br />
now the west side of the Bivens Hardware<br />
Store. In 1896 the first brick store was built<br />
on Main Street by Aaron Madison Morris.<br />
This building is still standing and is between<br />
Gravely’s Barber Shop and and a lawyer’s<br />
office. Mr. Morris was the first merchant<br />
to use glass store windows and glass front<br />
doors in his new building. Prior to this, all<br />
windows were simple wooden shutters fitted<br />
with braces and bars. When Mr. Morris was<br />
appointed as the postmaster here in Pickens,<br />
he fitted up the right front side of his store<br />
building as the post office, with <strong>small</strong> wooden<br />
boxes or cubicles suitably labeled to hold the<br />
mail for the families living here. A few years<br />
later, the post office moved across Main<br />
Street and occupied space in the back part of<br />
the former SCN bank. It was about this time<br />
that the Rural Free Delivery mail service was<br />
started in Pickens, and this was truly the horse<br />
and buggy days, for there were no paved roads<br />
of any sort; the very few automobiles in the<br />
area could be used only during dry weather.<br />
However, with the advent of RFD carriers,<br />
their buggies and even their first cars, meant<br />
PICKENS DRUG CO., 1909<br />
that more post office space was needed. This<br />
problem was solved in 1926, by the late Frank<br />
McFall, one of the early bankers. He erected<br />
a new building on Main Street, with the post<br />
office occupying the ground floor. The post<br />
1950s PICKENS<br />
FIRST LIGHTS — The first electric<br />
lights in Pickens were in this apartment<br />
building when it was the office of The<br />
Pickens Sentinel. Former Sentinel editor<br />
Gary Hiott Jr., says “A little later, A.M.<br />
Morris began his electric plant on Twelve<br />
Mile River which improved things and the<br />
lights would get brighter as the night wore<br />
on and more people went to bed.” There<br />
was one extreme handicap, according to Mr.<br />
Hiott: “Mr. Morris had a contract with the<br />
town which stated that on moonlit nights, no<br />
electricity would be provided.” The Sentinel<br />
was printed here from the early 1900s until<br />
1947. Before coming here, the office was in<br />
a wooden building on Main Street where it<br />
was started in 1871. The Pickens Sentinel is<br />
the oldest institution in Pickens County.<br />
FORMER SENTINEL OFFICE &<br />
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AMERICAN LEGION POST — This<br />
building, built in 1933, currently used as a<br />
church, was once American Legion Post #11<br />
and also from 1947-1966 it was the office of<br />
the Pickens Sentinel.<br />
GRIFFIN HOME — Though most<br />
people in Pickens refer to the house as the<br />
“Elihu Griffin House,” local historians are<br />
convinced that it was built by J.C. (Calhoun)<br />
Griffin in the 1880s on the same site that<br />
Elihu Griffin built his home decades earlier.<br />
When the Pickens County commissioners<br />
chose the site for the new town of Pickens,<br />
they bought 150 acres of land in May of<br />
1868 from Griffin and four other men.<br />
They paid Elihu Griffin $270 for 94 acres,<br />
James Ferguson, $50 for 18 acres, Wynn<br />
Blassingame $12 for 24 acres and William<br />
Allgood $75 for 15 acres.<br />
214 ANN STREET — Built by Hagood<br />
Bruce in the early 1920’s. He sold it in 1925 to<br />
Larry C. Thornely who was in business with<br />
Ernest Folger in Pickens.<br />
CURETON HOME — This lovely<br />
white home at 230 Ann Street was built about<br />
1919 by Mayor and Mrs. C.L. Cureton. Charlie<br />
Cureton served as mayor of Pickens in the<br />
1920s and 30s. He was on the state legislature,<br />
served on Governor Mannings staff and was a<br />
State Highway Commissioner.<br />
BABB’S HOUSE — At 231 Ann<br />
Street, this house was built in the early 1900s<br />
by Andrew Babb and his brother. Later,<br />
Mayor Sam Craig and his family lived in this<br />
house. In 1959, Dr. Albert Joseph Reinovsky<br />
and his family moved to the Babbs House.<br />
Dr. Reinovsky was a devoted doctor and<br />
loved by all that knew him. For no fee, he<br />
was the Pickens High football team doctor<br />
for 24 years and missed only one game in<br />
all those years. Also, he was the Miracle Hill<br />
Children’s Home physician.<br />
250 ANN STREET — Built in 1927<br />
by Dr. and Mrs. Paden Woodruff, in 1934<br />
Hayley Brown<br />
Sophomore at Pickens High<br />
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Dr. and Mrs. J.L. Aiken bought the home.<br />
Dr. Aiken was one of the first dentists in<br />
the area, practicing from 1919 to 1961. His<br />
daughter, Mary Aiken, who resides in the<br />
home now, was the Pickens County librarian<br />
from 1961 to 1970. Dr. Woodruff and Dr.<br />
Aiken came to Pickens on the same day to<br />
begin their practices. Dr. Woodruff was also<br />
mayor of Pickens in 1929-1931.<br />
256 ANN STREET — Built in 1927<br />
by Dr. J.L. Aiken, this home served as the<br />
Presbyterian Manse from the early 1940s to<br />
1972.<br />
LEGACY SQUARE, built in 1993-1994,<br />
was first conceived by the City of Pickens and<br />
the First Baptist Church as additional parking<br />
for the town. After many people contributed<br />
to the planning of the square, bricks were<br />
sold to individuals to construct a fountain,<br />
and contributions were made by many civic<br />
organizations, the First Baptist Church, and<br />
the City of Pickens.<br />
210 Main Street The Bradley/<br />
Boggs house. This house was originally<br />
built for and owned by William Franklin<br />
Bradley. The name may sound familiar to<br />
some, as he was the co-founder of the<br />
Pickens Sentinel and The Easley Progress.<br />
He also served in the state house just after<br />
the civil war.<br />
It later became the home of Julius E.<br />
Boggs, railroad president, who was born<br />
Feb. 14, 1854, in Pickens County. He was the<br />
president of the Pickens railroad. The house<br />
has been many things over the years, a home,<br />
a restaurant for serving lunches during the<br />
depression, a haunted house for the Jaycees,<br />
and most recently as the home of Enrapt, a<br />
local community theater.<br />
The current home of THE<br />
GREATER PICKENS CHAMBER OF<br />
COMMERCE was built in 1974 to house<br />
the Village Library which had outgrown its<br />
<strong>small</strong> building (see No. 33). In 1994, the<br />
library again expanded by moving to the old<br />
Dillard Funeral Home located on Catherine<br />
Street, leaving this spacious brick building<br />
available for the Chamber.<br />
Come visit us before or after<br />
the Pickens <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
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Breakfast Starts at 5AM | Lunch & Dinner<br />
864.868.2070<br />
Boots<br />
Junction of<br />
Hwy. 183 & 133 in Six Mile<br />
864.878.6348<br />
The warm weather IS here! Stop In Today<br />
www.pickensautorepair.mechanicnet.com<br />
105 West Jones Avenue | Pickens, SC 29671<br />
<strong>Azalea</strong><br />
It’s time to get your AC charged<br />
All You Can Eat Hot Bar<br />
Friday, April 20 th • 5 PM - 8 PM<br />
Steaks, Popcorn Shrimp<br />
& Homemade Ice Cream<br />
SATURDAY, APRIL 21ST,<br />
WE WILL BE OPEN 6 AM - 2 PM<br />
Breakfast Bar<br />
Saturday, April 21 st • 6 AM - 10:30 AM<br />
DURING THE FESTIVAL<br />
~ HOT BAR ~ MEAT & VEGETABLES ~<br />
~ SHORT ORDERS ~<br />
Village Inn Restaurant<br />
878.9170 | 107 Catherine St. | Pickens
Page 24 Pickens County Courier • <strong>2018</strong> <strong>Azalea</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> April 20-21, <strong>2018</strong><br />
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STOP STOP CLEANING YOUR YOUR GUTTERS FORVER