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.
