Burgess Town - This little
community is located on the Cowpens-Pacolet Road ( State Road S-42-810)
about one
quarter of a mile from the Brown’s Chapel Baptist Church. In the
1950’s,
there was an old brick store building still standing on the left side
of
the road. I don’t ever remember it being open. It must have closed in
the
1930’s or early 1940’s. Don’t know if the community took its name from
this
store or the Burgess family in the vicinity.
Keg Town - This community was
located
just outside of the Pacolet Mills village on the Gaffney Highway (Hwy
150).
The main feature in the 1940’s and 1950’s was Whitlock’s Store. It was
on
the north side of the intersection of Hwy 150 and Short Drive. The name
Keg
Town is supposedly from the fact that at one time there were several
saloons
there. If so, these were all gone by the 1940’s. At one time, Hwy
150
was a winding road that went from Keg Town down hill to Brown’s Branch
along
what is now known as Love Lane. Sometime around the 1960’s, Hwy 150 was
straightened
to its present route and the old Brown’s Branch
bridge was replaced.
