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Local History Talks: "Teas in the America's featuring the 1848 Golden Grove Tea Plantation in Piedmont" with Dr. Anne Peden & Larry Conant

Program Type:

Educational, History & Genealogy

Age Group:

Adults
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Please join us on Thursday, April 11th when we welcome guest speakers, Dr. Anne Peden & Larry Conant, who will present us with Tea in the America's featuring Dr. Junius Smith's 1848 Golden Grove Tea Plantation in Piedmont, SC in Greenville County!

As English Colonies, tea was an important cultural drink from the earliest settlements. In this presentation, you will learn how the Upstate has played a significant part the history of tea in the Americas.

Anne Peden, an educator, author, and avid local historian, serves on the Greenville County Historic Preservation Commission and the boards of the Fork Shoals Historical Society and the Piedmont Historic Preservation Society, and she writes National Register and State Historical Marker applications. With service clubs, she helped author two Arcadia Publishing photographic histories, Fork Shoals and Piedmont. Additionally, she co-authored Highway 25 in the Carolinas: A Brief History with Jim Scott.

Local History Talks is a program happening on the second Thursday's in February, April, June, August, and October. Our guest speakers will discuss interesting local history topics within the Upstate of South Carolina.