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Cleveland on the Clinch
by Kathy Shearer

          Cleveland on the Clinch
























First Day Sale at the Cleveland High School
Reunion: Saturday, June 13, 2009
. See pictures!

 

Lilly Building
















The Lilly Building was the shopping center of its day,
housing many different businesses.

 

 

 

 

 

 



Christine Purcell, Paul Campbell, and Ilene Purcell
enjoy posing on a 1925 Model T Ford.


Hardcover, 8.5" x 11", 472 pages, full index
Hundreds of black and white pictures
First-person accounts by over 70 storytellers
1910 and 1930 census
Partial list of enrollees in the CCC Camp Dixie
Also: Stories from nearby communities, from
Mill Creek to Combs Valley

ISBN 978-0-9724765-5-3
Clinch Mountain Press 2009
$48.00

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Cleveland, Virginia was a busy little market town on the banks of the Clinch River, developed in 1889 by attorney William Elkanah Burns to serve as the railhead for Lebanon, the county seat of Russell County. Farmers drove cattle, sheep, and even turkeys to meet the Norfolk & Western Railway freight trains that chugged into the station, and everyone would gather to see who was getting on and off the passenger trains. Four different grocery stores, a well-stocked hardware store, a wagon store, restaurants and hotels served the needs of people for miles around.

Step back in time into the rhythm of life in this small town.
 

Price Soda Shop


Una Puckett recalls working in the Price Soda Shop:

When school was out, the high school come down. The tables a-talkin', the laughin' in the back was going on. They were just good, sweet, precious children. I made sundaes, made milk shakes. Sold ice cream. Potato chips, Nabs, Pepsi's. A nickel for a Pepsi, an ice cream cone, a nickel. A double-dose, two scoops, was ten cents. Always kept vanilla and chocolate. That was the childrens' favorites. And our preacher at the Methodist Church, he'd be right in the middle of all of them.

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