North, South Carolina: an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp, freezer burn and seriously funny.
“I have no earthly idea,” says Randy Williams, rocking on the porch of his downtown North brick home. “All I know is, every time I call someone on the phone and they ask where I’m from, they say, ‘Oh, North Carolina.’ And I have to say, ‘No. North, South Carolina!’”
Rusty Fogle, of R&J Drugs Pharmacy, doesn’t quite know either. “Seems like North had something to do with the railroad,” he says.
One pharmacist perks up and says, “Oh, I remember” and Xeroxes a visitor’s brochure for me. A section called “History of North” reads plain as day: “Like many towns established during that era, North was built around the railroad, and was named for the town’s first mayor, John F. North, one of the men who donated the land for the depot.”
“I have no earthly idea,” says Randy Williams, rocking on the porch of his downtown North brick home. “All I know is, every time I call someone on the phone and they ask where I’m from, they say, ‘Oh, North Carolina.’ And I have to say, ‘No. North, South Carolina!’”
Rusty Fogle, of R&J Drugs Pharmacy, doesn’t quite know either. “Seems like North had something to do with the railroad,” he says.
One pharmacist perks up and says, “Oh, I remember” and Xeroxes a visitor’s brochure for me. A section called “History of North” reads plain as day: “Like many towns established during that era, North was built around the railroad, and was named for the town’s first mayor, John F. North, one of the men who donated the land for the depot.”
