Stovall: Virtual tour of North Carolina

If you are here from HBDC this is the fourth virtual town you are visiting. Be sure to check out Crotchety in New Jersey if you have not already.
Welcome everyone, to my town, the town of Stovall population 387. Please don't crowd each other you will step off the curb and be in the next town, which is Bullock where my address actually is and the population there is 1,732. We are not ready for that yet. A little history you say? Well, in the days of our forefathers this was once Indian land (feather, not dot) (Tuscarora not Apache) and then after the Tuscarora war the white man took over as they are wont to do. Did you know that if you look down the street you can see a sign, yep that black one. Can you read it?

It says John Penn lived hearabouts and he was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Too bad I do not know where he actually lived, but they did put a sign up.
This county used to be farmland rich in sand. I know, sand? Well that is what they had other than red clay so someone discovered that Bright Leaf tobacco grew real good in sandy soil and for a long time this and the town of Oxford, (15 miles up the road, population 8,552) was a tobacco growing mad house. Then they had about 10,000 slaves to farm that tobacco. Now there is a Governor, actually a slew of them that have taxed the tobacco farmer right out of a job. The textile industry is gone, Lennox China used to be right there in Oxford and Burlington Industries was here too. Now they are gone and there are a lot of old warehouses left standing empty.

If you are looking for that special person to share your life with, please do not come to Bullock because the male population and the female population is damned near split right down the middle. I think when you put all the sexes together you have a full set of teeth so that is saying something. Sweet tea is the drink of the town and while you are here I suggest you at least try some. Is that not like drinking syrup? Now you know why they have to have all the sexes together to have a full set of teeth. From sucking sugar tits their whole life.
Barbecue is next to sweet tea the only thing the southerners really love here. I for one am not used to pureed pork with vinegar on it, and that is the kind of barbecue you will find here. If that does not suit then how about some fried fatback? Fried chicken? Souse meat, brains and eggs? How about a mess of greens with fatback in it, or a big bowl of chitterlings? Well you are in the south here baby so get used to it.

Before you go I have to take you by the orphanage. I am not from here so to me an orphanage is for a child with no parents and no next of kin. You too? Well guess what folks? Anyone who gets tired of the youngun's or gets re-married and is weary of the old kids can just drop them off right here.

They of course had a separate one for the "colored"  Hey! Don't give me that look, I told you all I am not from around here.

 Hey when it gets dark you guys want to go cow tipping?

Tomorrow I will show you all other the reasons North Carolina is special.