The Peachoid
One of the great things about my home town of Gaffney, SC, is the Peachoid, a one-million gallon water tower in the shape of a peach. I took this picture at my high school reunion in 2004.
It used to be that no one knew where Gaffney was. Now everyone traveling I-85 between Atlanta and Charlotte, NC (a very busy road) knows Gaffney.
At one time Cherokee County produced more peaches than all of Georgia. It was shown in the Albert Brooks movie Lost in America; however, it was used to indicate their entering Georgia! Cretins.
As part of my blogging experiment, I created a blog about US 29, which I-85 essentially follows. 29 runs right through Gaffney, and my two sisters still live within a few miles of it, in South Carolina and in Virginia. One day we may take a road trip and follow 29 from Pensacola to Baltimore. Then we’ll complete the blog.
cleve callison’s blog 
Cash was raised in Gaffney, out around Cherokee Ave BC as I understand it; buried in Shelby near the library there, not far from plot of the famous moviemaker of early 1900’s.
Cash from Wikipedia:
[edit] Early life
Cash was born and grew up in the mill village of Gaffney, S.C. He graduated from Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University) in 1922, and attended law school for a year there. During his final two undergraduate years, he served first as managing editor and then editor of the college newspaper, the Old Gold & Black. Cash left law school, declaring later that it “required too much mendacity,” and taught college and high school for two years, before turning permanently to journalism and writing as his profession.
Leaving Wiki for correction on Grizzard further down 29.
Sprayberry’s was the BBQ place close to his heart in Newnan.
Hmm. I always thought that Cash was from Shelby, NC. Not far from Gaffney, though.
According to Sprayberry’s Barbecue in Newnan, Grizzard called it “merely the best barbecue joint on earth.”
Man, I have to make that U.S. 29 trip one day.
Gaffney is the Home of W.J. Cash.
Further South HWY29 goes through Winder, Ga. home of LBJ’s mentor Senator Richard Russell and the notorious Billy Sunday Birt.
Below Atlanta 29 dissects Newnan Georgia, where Lewis Grizzard ate BBQ at great place whose name escapes me at the moment; a favorite of troups traveling back and forth to Columbus, Ga in the 40’s.