Robeson County NcArchives News.....Cotton Valley 1908
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July 20, 1908 - The Robesonian 1908
Cotton Valley - Model Farms and Farmers - A Goodly Land Where Milk and Honey 
Flow - Your correspondent has had the pleasure within the past few week of 
visiting in that section of the country known in almost every centre as "Cotton 
Valley'.  Its notoriety with its name was gained several decades agone when the 
fertility of its soil, its adaptability to raising the fleecy staple, was 
discovered.  This was during that era just immediately succeeding the war 
between the States, known as the reconstruction period of the South-now too 
fresh, perhaps in the minds of many to need reference to. 
     We would like to speak in this connection of the class of citizens who have 
been the guardians of this community since that time, but time and space forbid, 
hence we can only in this connection mention that this section was first settled 
by Scotch, who either came, or their ancestors came, directly from the mother 
country.  So we find McEachern, McIntyre, McDaniel, McKoy, McGirt, prominent 
among the pioneer settlers and many of these names are still numerous and among 
the successful managers and land owners.  And we may add the names Edens, 
McCallum, Rowland and Ward, of the recently acquired.
     A stranger in going over this section would notice, first, the neatness 
with which the farms are managed, the attentions given to the buildings thereon, 
keeping the ditches in order that the drainage may be complete, and all the 
minor details connected with the management of a well-ordered farm; and the 
conclusion will always be that these people have made farming a study-an art--- 
and that they have reached a point of perfection seldom approximated.  We would 
specify only in one or two instances.  The J. W. Ward farm, managed by Mr. J. F. 
Williams, whose sole control over several hundred acres of magnificent cotton, 
corn and oats can but give evidence of Mr. Ward's ability and rare judgment in 
his selection of a manager.  Mr. W. B. McLellan would divide honors with some of 
his neighbors, judging from the splendid appearance of his cotton fields.  We 
next come to the splendid farms of Messrs. A. Edens, Archie McCallum and W. W. 
Rowland, which if we could ever finish telling of their perfection, would 
complete our story.  Our advise to any one that would enjoy the happy privilege 
of seeing the beautiful in nature and art combined, is not to fail to come to 
this Cotton Valley, where milk and honey continue to flow and where good cheer 
and warm welcome await all who come within her gates.
                                           "VIDE"
                                           Dillon, S.C.  July 16, 1908

[Cotton Valley is in Robeson County near Rowland and the South Carolina state 
line.]


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