Editing Dark Corner Exhibit (section)

==  FEUDS AND FELLOWSHIP: Independence, Defiance, and Community ==

=== Turning it on ===
Everything in this exhibit is turned on/off with a single round white push-button located behind the still.

=== What’s in the name? ===

* Dean Campbell Memorial: this exhibit is dedicated to, and in honor of, Dean Campbell, who invested his life in capturing and preserving Dark Corner heritage. Initially, this exhibit will include a full panel about Dean’s life.
* Feuds and Fellowship: Dark Corner culture is reflected in a series of paradoxes. We chose these two words to represent them all: on one hand the conflict and violence for which the area is famous, and on the other hand the close-knit community with intense loyalty for one another. 
* Independence: John C. Campbell said the dominant trait of the region is “independence raised to the fourth power.” This characteristic fueled the area’s defiance of law and tax oversight, their opposition to various SC laws and movements, and their social isolation from surrounding communities. 
* Defiance: an outcome of fierce independence was defiance to authority. They viewed their opposition to liquor taxation, for example, in a very similar way to the American Revolution opposition to British taxation.
* Community: Dark Corner residents had a special, close community. They supported each other in substantial ways that formed deep bonds, from barn raisings, to corn shuckings, to harvesting another man’s crops if he was sick. 

=== Where is the Dark Corner? ===
The term doesn’t refer to an actual legal jurisdiction, and is used in different ways by different people. This can make it confusing.

* Famously, Dark Corner residents told anyone who asked that it’s “just a bit farther up the road.” That answer reflects a time when Dark Corner inhabitants were viewed with suspicion; it was valuable to them to be vague.
* An important aspect of the location is that, while it does reference a general geographic area, it is better defined culturally than geographically.
* Our exhibit is focused on the rugged, mountainous part of north Greenville County, centered around Glassy and Hogback Mountains. The heart of it is the area bordered by Highway 25, Highway 11, Highway 176, and the state line. 
* Historically, the term refers to that area plus a corresponding area across the state line in North Carolina. Moonshiners used the state line as a way to jump jurisdictions when being pursued.
* This means that Dark Corner is not in Greer itself. They have always been closely linked, and Greer’s expanding border is now consuming the edges of Dark Corner, but they are not the same place.
* Keep in mind that South Carolina has had several different areas in the state that have been called “Dark Corner.” In particular, there was an area near Anderson that was commonly called this in the late 1800s and early 1900s. If you research “Dark Corner” in the Greenville News, you’ll find quite a few confusing stories in which it’s unclear which area they’re talking about.

The giant corner map is quite important. It shows the locations and names of every homestead in the Dark Corner area.

=== Name ===
There are several stories about where the name came from, and it’s likely that none of them were actually the original source. The most common story is that a statesman came to the area to promote Nullification (explained below) and was thrown in a mill pond; he declared this was a truly dark corner. However, there are some indications the name was in use prior to that event. In any case, by 1840 it appears in land deeds as a geographic name. 

=== Roads ===
“For many decades, there was not a single public road in the area.” The SC State Archive holds a petition filed by Dark Corner residents for the creation of a public road, noting that the lack of one hurt their ability to get farm goods to market.