Order of the Long Leaf Pine: Members from Caswell County, North Carolina

Order of the Long Leaf Pine: Members from Caswell County, North Carolina (listed by award date)

John Reid Blackwell: February 1970

Millard Quentin Plumblee: November 1984

Maud Florance Gatewood: December 1984

Samuel Ryland Farmer: December 1984

Stuart Neal Watlington: December 1984

Dr. Houston Gwynn (HG) Jones, Ph.D.: July 1996

Lawrence Clem (Larry) Snead: March 2003

George Malloy Shelton, Jr.: August 2006

Gladys Alma Fowler Graves: September 2008

James Monroe Long III: December 2010

Robert Ross Blackwell: December 2010

William Billy Hodges: January 2011

Baron Lee Terrell: June 2012

William Bennett Atwater, Jr.: January 2013 

Bernard Lawrence Satterfield: September 2013

Fred Allen Smith: November 2014*

Larry Neal Stogner: February 2015

Raymond Armstead Hodges: May 2017

Michael Lee Welch: August 2017

Marlene Pyrant Watlington: November 2020

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* Received the award on November 11, 2014, Veterans Day

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Caswell County Bright Leaf Hoedown

 Bright-Leaf Hoedown

With the next Hoedown approaching (2022), it is fun to look back.

In 1983, the event featured an annual Farmers' Olympics. Events included cow-chip throwing, tobacco spitting, corn shucking, tobacco gum ball balling, and an obstacle course where the runners had to carry two full buckets of water.

Edgar Harges [Hargis/} of Alamance County won the tobacco spitting even with 19 feet, 1 inch. Don Swann came in second.

W. D. Pleasant of Purley won the cow-chip throwing contest, which attracted ten contestants. He also took first place overall in the Olympics. David Brandon of Burlington came in second overall.

The News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina), 27 September 1983.

The knife photograph is not associated with the newspaper article. Click image to see a larger version.

North Carolina's Most Dangerous Rural Intersection: 1971

 

Caswell County Trivia

In 1971 the North Carolina Highway Commission designated the intersection of Highway 86 and the Park Springs Road in Caswell County as the most dangerous rural intersection in North Carolina.

The Park Springs intersection with Highway 86 achieved its "most dangerous" rating on the basis of 21 accidents in a three-year period (with 11 of those crashes occurring in 1970) and "a very, very low traffic volume."

The Bee (Danville, Virginia), 6 October 1971.