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Pat Shepherd sits as a passenger in a wagon owned by the Southern Express Company. The sign on the building In the background says “Pecan Specialists, Jefferson Nursery”

Mauma, a Partridge family slave, was brought to South Carolina on a slave ship from Africa. She came to Jefferson County with John and Eliza Partridge in the 1830's, and was Frances Weston Partridge's nurse. Frances later married Charles Thomas…

"When the watermelons are at just the right state of development-- over-ripe enough to be picked up easily by a pitchfork, but not too ripe to slip off the forks, or break open-- they are loaded by farm hands into a specially designed field seed…

Convicts leased to harvest timber.