A small sawmill was constructed in the pine woods of Lafayette County in the late 1860s. The mill later was purchased by Bodcaw Lumber Co. and grew into a massive complex. The area began to flourish when the Cotton Belt extended its railroad lines here in 1882.
It was cold and spitting snow that day in December 1992 when the cab driver dropped me off at Maya Angelou s house in Winston-Salem, N.C. I was political editor of this newspaper and was taking a short break from writing and editing stories about Bill Clinton, who had been elected president a month earlier.
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