GREENVILLEJOURNAL JOURNAL GREENVILLEJOURNAL.COM • Friday, May 24, 2013 • Vol.15, No.21
An illegal distillery found in the woods of northern Greenville in 1955. PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE JAMES G. WILSON COLLECTION, UPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM-FURMAN UNIVERSITY
SPIRITS OF THE DARK CORNER Still sites are a remnant of Greenville County’s hardscrabble past
BY DICK HUGHES | contributor
THE MYSTERIES OF GREENVILLE County’s Dark Corner are legion when it comes to moonshining as a cash lifeline for hardscrabble settlers in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Recently, a new one unraveled in a gated upscale
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community built among those stills of yesteryear. Who stripped clean the remnants of several still sites along about 12 miles of a hiking trail at the Cliffs community of Mountain Park? And why? The cleansing escaped the attention of the partnership that owns unsold
land in the community and controls the property owners’ association. Upon some checking, Richard Hubbell, a Cliffs employee and a member of the Mountain Park POA board, learned the historic sites were cleared by a landscaper under direction of Carlton Property Services, the paid manager of the POA.
That cleared up who ordered the scrubbing. The “why” was not explained. Scott Carlton, president of Carlton and president of the Cliffs Clubs & Hospitality Group, did not return telephone requests for comment. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
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