This is a little story about why we need to talk to our elderly "kin folks" now while they are living. Someday down the road, we will wish that we had listened and recorded their information!!!! Yesterday while having our Thanksgiving Dinner, my soon to be, 84 year- old Mother was telling us about growing up in Haw River, NC. My grandchildren were amazed at the names of the little different mill villages, many which were hilarious to them, also to find that both their great-grandmother and grandmother were born on RED SLIDE! Can you imagine teen-agers laughing at these names? For anyone out there that had ancestors or grandparents that lived in this area, around the "Cotton Mills", I want to give the names of the different little "hills", as we called them while I was growing up. There is a small town in present day Alamance County that celebrated their 250 years anniversary in 1995. This was called Trollinger's Ford in it's beginning. The mill villages that made up Haw River had interesting names. Closest to the Granite Plant (on land paved over for the present parking lot) was OLD TOWN, probably the earliest of the villages. Just to the east, behind the movie theater and Cole's Store on Rock Street was JOHNSTOWN. On the south side of Main Street, on the hillside between the old Cora Mill (or Tabardrey plant) and the river, was SUGAR HILL. TERRAPIN SLIDE and PINETOP were east of Tabandrey, down and around Stone Street. All of these were demolished in the mid 1950's. Still standing are the houses that made up the OVER THE RIVER Houses and RED SLIDE, on the west side of the river, north of the road (#70). Also standing are JOHNSON CITY behind the school on and around Third Street, and TROLLINGWOOD on and around State Street. Down the Graham Road (#49), many of the houses were built for Cone Mills management in the 1940's and 1950's. This area was dubbed SOCIETY HILL. ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm