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Lake View - Dr. L. Wade Temple Jr., 71, died Monday in Marion Memorial County Hospital after a long illness.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Bear Swamp Baptist Church near Lake View. Burial with Masonic Rites will be in the church cemetery, directed by Prevatte Funeral Home.
Dr. Temple was born in Lake View, a son of the late Levi Wade and Alice Page Temple. He was a member of Bear Swamp Baptist Church, a deacon and church clerk for more than 20 years. Also he was past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ancient and Free Masons of S.C. from 1956 to 1958, past Master of Hillsboro Lodge 308 AFM, a member of All-York rite and Scottish rite Masonic bodies, a member of Omar Temple of the Shrine, a former Commissioner of the Masonic Service Association of America, a former member of the Lake View Town Council, and of the Lake View School Board. Also, he was commissioner of Dillon County Soil Conservation District.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Sarah Temple; a daughter, Mrs. George Hammett of Atlanta, Ga.; six sisters, Mrs. Grace T. Pearce of Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. Louise B. Daniel of New Burn, N.C., Miss Alimae Temple of Lake View, Mrs. Hunter Huss. of Gastonia, N.C., Mrs. Roy Grennall of Southern Pine, N.C., and Mrs. Earl Nealis of Mobile, Ala.; and three grandsons.
(Florence Morning News - Wednesday, January 2, 1974)
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"Picturesque Pond Dates from 1792" - by Dew James
Lake View - Give Lake View's amicable Dr. Wade Temple half a chance and he'll not only tell you about picturesque Page's Millpond, but he'll take you on a tour of it.
The millpond, snug against Highway 1 at the edge of Lake View's downtown, dates from 1792, the year, according to Dr. Temple's research that Preserved ("Zarv") Ford and his son, Maj. William Ford, threw up an earthen dam across Bear Swamp impounding its waters and creating the pond.
The town fathers decided that the 250-acre-plus expanse of water with moss-draped cypress trees crowding the shoreline was more appropriately a lake when they changed the name of their town from Page's Mill to Lake View in 1916.
Dr. Temple came up with a couple of other historical events that occurred the year the millpond came into being that he throws into his narrative. It was also the year that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and it was the year that the dollar was fixed as the official unit of currency by the U.S. Congress.
The Fords used power generated by the impounded water to grind corn, bolt wheat and saw timber, according to Dr. Temple.
A detachment of Union Gen. Sherman's troops paid a call to the millpond in the last days of the Civil War and left their mark, according to Dr. Temple. The soldiers ruptured the main dam and poured quick silver into a cofferdam to prevent repairs being made.
A pit reputed to be the site of the cofferdam remains between Highway 41 and the main dam, looking like a sinkhole.
"When we were children, we were told that whatever we did we were not to go near that hole," Dr. Temple says. There was one old fellow who was particularly insistent that youngsters keep away from the pit and Dr. Temple says he found out why later. "He kept his liquor hidden in some bushes at the edge of the hole," the doctor said.
Dr. Temple's grandfather, Joseph Nichols Page, a Confederate veteran, acquired in the millpond in 1870 in a property exchange with Cornelius Townsend Ford, his brother-in-law. He built a store on the north bank of the pond, changed its name to Page's Millpond and became the first postmaster at Page's Mill Post Office in 1877.
The Pond has been in the family ever since. A neatly-kept park on the north side of the pond, which is sufficiently alluring to detour many travelers from Highway 41, is located on the site where the Page store stood. Aside from the natural beauty of the pond and the blooms of the azaleas in spring there is the spill of the water over the dam and a millhouse that is no longer used to catch the eye of travelers.
"There is nothing really very antique about the millhouse," says Dr. Temple. "I remember when it was built."
Briefly Page's Mill water power was used to generate electricity. A notice in a Dillon newspaper in 1920 extended an invitation "to our sister towns who are somewhat in the dark, to come and look at some real electric lights." Dr. Temple notes that the notice failed to mention that the lights were shut off promptly at 8 p.m.
Deep in the woods on a tilt of land beside the pond is "The Country Doctor's Cabin," a rustic retreat which has been the gathering place for Dr. Temple and his cronies every Saturday night for some 40 years.
It's a unique group of men that arrives at the cabin at about sundown each Saturday to swap yarns, enjoy a "little tonic" and eat a scrumptious meal. But that's another story and there will be another day for telling it.
(Florence Morning News - Sunday, July 30, 1972 - 5-A)
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Lake View - Dr. L. Wade Temple Jr., 71, died Monday in Marion Memorial County Hospital after a long illness.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Bear Swamp Baptist Church near Lake View. Burial with Masonic Rites will be in the church cemetery, directed by Prevatte Funeral Home.
Dr. Temple was born in Lake View, a son of the late Levi Wade and Alice Page Temple. He was a member of Bear Swamp Baptist Church, a deacon and church clerk for more than 20 years. Also he was past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ancient and Free Masons of S.C. from 1956 to 1958, past Master of Hillsboro Lodge 308 AFM, a member of All-York rite and Scottish rite Masonic bodies, a member of Omar Temple of the Shrine, a former Commissioner of the Masonic Service Association of America, a former member of the Lake View Town Council, and of the Lake View School Board. Also, he was commissioner of Dillon County Soil Conservation District.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Sarah Temple; a daughter, Mrs. George Hammett of Atlanta, Ga.; six sisters, Mrs. Grace T. Pearce of Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. Louise B. Daniel of New Burn, N.C., Miss Alimae Temple of Lake View, Mrs. Hunter Huss. of Gastonia, N.C., Mrs. Roy Grennall of Southern Pine, N.C., and Mrs. Earl Nealis of Mobile, Ala.; and three grandsons.
(Florence Morning News - Wednesday, January 2, 1974)
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"Picturesque Pond Dates from 1792" - by Dew James
Lake View - Give Lake View's amicable Dr. Wade Temple half a chance and he'll not only tell you about picturesque Page's Millpond, but he'll take you on a tour of it.
The millpond, snug against Highway 1 at the edge of Lake View's downtown, dates from 1792, the year, according to Dr. Temple's research that Preserved ("Zarv") Ford and his son, Maj. William Ford, threw up an earthen dam across Bear Swamp impounding its waters and creating the pond.
The town fathers decided that the 250-acre-plus expanse of water with moss-draped cypress trees crowding the shoreline was more appropriately a lake when they changed the name of their town from Page's Mill to Lake View in 1916.
Dr. Temple came up with a couple of other historical events that occurred the year the millpond came into being that he throws into his narrative. It was also the year that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and it was the year that the dollar was fixed as the official unit of currency by the U.S. Congress.
The Fords used power generated by the impounded water to grind corn, bolt wheat and saw timber, according to Dr. Temple.
A detachment of Union Gen. Sherman's troops paid a call to the millpond in the last days of the Civil War and left their mark, according to Dr. Temple. The soldiers ruptured the main dam and poured quick silver into a cofferdam to prevent repairs being made.
A pit reputed to be the site of the cofferdam remains between Highway 41 and the main dam, looking like a sinkhole.
"When we were children, we were told that whatever we did we were not to go near that hole," Dr. Temple says. There was one old fellow who was particularly insistent that youngsters keep away from the pit and Dr. Temple says he found out why later. "He kept his liquor hidden in some bushes at the edge of the hole," the doctor said.
Dr. Temple's grandfather, Joseph Nichols Page, a Confederate veteran, acquired in the millpond in 1870 in a property exchange with Cornelius Townsend Ford, his brother-in-law. He built a store on the north bank of the pond, changed its name to Page's Millpond and became the first postmaster at Page's Mill Post Office in 1877.
The Pond has been in the family ever since. A neatly-kept park on the north side of the pond, which is sufficiently alluring to detour many travelers from Highway 41, is located on the site where the Page store stood. Aside from the natural beauty of the pond and the blooms of the azaleas in spring there is the spill of the water over the dam and a millhouse that is no longer used to catch the eye of travelers.
"There is nothing really very antique about the millhouse," says Dr. Temple. "I remember when it was built."
Briefly Page's Mill water power was used to generate electricity. A notice in a Dillon newspaper in 1920 extended an invitation "to our sister towns who are somewhat in the dark, to come and look at some real electric lights." Dr. Temple notes that the notice failed to mention that the lights were shut off promptly at 8 p.m.
Deep in the woods on a tilt of land beside the pond is "The Country Doctor's Cabin," a rustic retreat which has been the gathering place for Dr. Temple and his cronies every Saturday night for some 40 years.
It's a unique group of men that arrives at the cabin at about sundown each Saturday to swap yarns, enjoy a "little tonic" and eat a scrumptious meal. But that's another story and there will be another day for telling it.
(Florence Morning News - Sunday, July 30, 1972 - 5-A)
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Lake View - Dr. L. Wade Temple Jr., 71, died Monday in Marion Memorial County Hospital after a long illness.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Bear Swamp Baptist Church near Lake View. Burial with Masonic Rites will be in the church cemetery, directed by Prevatte Funeral Home.
Dr. Temple was born in Lake View, a son of the late Levi Wade and Alice Page Temple. He was a member of Bear Swamp Baptist Church, a deacon and church clerk for more than 20 years. Also he was past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ancient and Free Masons of S.C. from 1956 to 1958, past Master of Hillsboro Lodge 308 AFM, a member of All-York rite and Scottish rite Masonic bodies, a member of Omar Temple of the Shrine, a former Commissioner of the Masonic Service Association of America, a former member of the Lake View Town Council, and of the Lake View School Board. Also, he was commissioner of Dillon County Soil Conservation District.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Sarah Temple; a daughter, Mrs. George Hammett of Atlanta, Ga.; six sisters, Mrs. Grace T. Pearce of Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. Louise B. Daniel of New Burn, N.C., Miss Alimae Temple of Lake View, Mrs. Hunter Huss. of Gastonia, N.C., Mrs. Roy Grennall of Southern Pine, N.C., and Mrs. Earl Nealis of Mobile, Ala.; and three grandsons.
(Florence Morning News - Wednesday, January 2, 1974)
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"Picturesque Pond Dates from 1792" - by Dew James
Lake View - Give Lake View's amicable Dr. Wade Temple half a chance and he'll not only tell you about picturesque Page's Millpond, but he'll take you on a tour of it.
The millpond, snug against Highway 1 at the edge of Lake View's downtown, dates from 1792, the year, according to Dr. Temple's research that Preserved ("Zarv") Ford and his son, Maj. William Ford, threw up an earthen dam across Bear Swamp impounding its waters and creating the pond.
The town fathers decided that the 250-acre-plus expanse of water with moss-draped cypress trees crowding the shoreline was more appropriately a lake when they changed the name of their town from Page's Mill to Lake View in 1916.
Dr. Temple came up with a couple of other historical events that occurred the year the millpond came into being that he throws into his narrative. It was also the year that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and it was the year that the dollar was fixed as the official unit of currency by the U.S. Congress.
The Fords used power generated by the impounded water to grind corn, bolt wheat and saw timber, according to Dr. Temple.
A detachment of Union Gen. Sherman's troops paid a call to the millpond in the last days of the Civil War and left their mark, according to Dr. Temple. The soldiers ruptured the main dam and poured quick silver into a cofferdam to prevent repairs being made.
A pit reputed to be the site of the cofferdam remains between Highway 41 and the main dam, looking like a sinkhole.
"When we were children, we were told that whatever we did we were not to go near that hole," Dr. Temple says. There was one old fellow who was particularly insistent that youngsters keep away from the pit and Dr. Temple says he found out why later. "He kept his liquor hidden in some bushes at the edge of the hole," the doctor said.
Dr. Temple's grandfather, Joseph Nichols Page, a Confederate veteran, acquired in the millpond in 1870 in a property exchange with Cornelius Townsend Ford, his brother-in-law. He built a store on the north bank of the pond, changed its name to Page's Millpond and became the first postmaster at Page's Mill Post Office in 1877.
The Pond has been in the family ever since. A neatly-kept park on the north side of the pond, which is sufficiently alluring to detour many travelers from Highway 41, is located on the site where the Page store stood. Aside from the natural beauty of the pond and the blooms of the azaleas in spring there is the spill of the water over the dam and a millhouse that is no longer used to catch the eye of travelers.
"There is nothing really very antique about the millhouse," says Dr. Temple. "I remember when it was built."
Briefly Page's Mill water power was used to generate electricity. A notice in a Dillon newspaper in 1920 extended an invitation "to our sister towns who are somewhat in the dark, to come and look at some real electric lights." Dr. Temple notes that the notice failed to mention that the lights were shut off promptly at 8 p.m.
Deep in the woods on a tilt of land beside the pond is "The Country Doctor's Cabin," a rustic retreat which has been the gathering place for Dr. Temple and his cronies every Saturday night for some 40 years.
It's a unique group of men that arrives at the cabin at about sundown each Saturday to swap yarns, enjoy a "little tonic" and eat a scrumptious meal. But that's another story and there will be another day for telling it.
(Florence Morning News - Sunday, July 30, 1972 - 5-A)
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Lake View - Dr. L. Wade Temple Jr., 71, died Monday in Marion Memorial County Hospital after a long illness.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 11 a.m. at Bear Swamp Baptist Church near Lake View. Burial with Masonic Rites will be in the church cemetery, directed by Prevatte Funeral Home.
Dr. Temple was born in Lake View, a son of the late Levi Wade and Alice Page Temple. He was a member of Bear Swamp Baptist Church, a deacon and church clerk for more than 20 years. Also he was past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ancient and Free Masons of S.C. from 1956 to 1958, past Master of Hillsboro Lodge 308 AFM, a member of All-York rite and Scottish rite Masonic bodies, a member of Omar Temple of the Shrine, a former Commissioner of the Masonic Service Association of America, a former member of the Lake View Town Council, and of the Lake View School Board. Also, he was commissioner of Dillon County Soil Conservation District.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Sarah Temple; a daughter, Mrs. George Hammett of Atlanta, Ga.; six sisters, Mrs. Grace T. Pearce of Oklahoma City, Okla., Mrs. Louise B. Daniel of New Burn, N.C., Miss Alimae Temple of Lake View, Mrs. Hunter Huss. of Gastonia, N.C., Mrs. Roy Grennall of Southern Pine, N.C., and Mrs. Earl Nealis of Mobile, Ala.; and three grandsons.
(Florence Morning News - Wednesday, January 2, 1974)
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"Picturesque Pond Dates from 1792" - by Dew James
Lake View - Give Lake View's amicable Dr. Wade Temple half a chance and he'll not only tell you about picturesque Page's Millpond, but he'll take you on a tour of it.
The millpond, snug against Highway 1 at the edge of Lake View's downtown, dates from 1792, the year, according to Dr. Temple's research that Preserved ("Zarv") Ford and his son, Maj. William Ford, threw up an earthen dam across Bear Swamp impounding its waters and creating the pond.
The town fathers decided that the 250-acre-plus expanse of water with moss-draped cypress trees crowding the shoreline was more appropriately a lake when they changed the name of their town from Page's Mill to Lake View in 1916.
Dr. Temple came up with a couple of other historical events that occurred the year the millpond came into being that he throws into his narrative. It was also the year that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and it was the year that the dollar was fixed as the official unit of currency by the U.S. Congress.
The Fords used power generated by the impounded water to grind corn, bolt wheat and saw timber, according to Dr. Temple.
A detachment of Union Gen. Sherman's troops paid a call to the millpond in the last days of the Civil War and left their mark, according to Dr. Temple. The soldiers ruptured the main dam and poured quick silver into a cofferdam to prevent repairs being made.
A pit reputed to be the site of the cofferdam remains between Highway 41 and the main dam, looking like a sinkhole.
"When we were children, we were told that whatever we did we were not to go near that hole," Dr. Temple says. There was one old fellow who was particularly insistent that youngsters keep away from the pit and Dr. Temple says he found out why later. "He kept his liquor hidden in some bushes at the edge of the hole," the doctor said.
Dr. Temple's grandfather, Joseph Nichols Page, a Confederate veteran, acquired in the millpond in 1870 in a property exchange with Cornelius Townsend Ford, his brother-in-law. He built a store on the north bank of the pond, changed its name to Page's Millpond and became the first postmaster at Page's Mill Post Office in 1877.
The Pond has been in the family ever since. A neatly-kept park on the north side of the pond, which is sufficiently alluring to detour many travelers from Highway 41, is located on the site where the Page store stood. Aside from the natural beauty of the pond and the blooms of the azaleas in spring there is the spill of the water over the dam and a millhouse that is no longer used to catch the eye of travelers.
"There is nothing really very antique about the millhouse," says Dr. Temple. "I remember when it was built."
Briefly Page's Mill water power was used to generate electricity. A notice in a Dillon newspaper in 1920 extended an invitation "to our sister towns who are somewhat in the dark, to come and look at some real electric lights." Dr. Temple notes that the notice failed to mention that the lights were shut off promptly at 8 p.m.
Deep in the woods on a tilt of land beside the pond is "The Country Doctor's Cabin," a rustic retreat which has been the gathering place for Dr. Temple and his cronies every Saturday night for some 40 years.
It's a unique group of men that arrives at the cabin at about sundown each Saturday to swap yarns, enjoy a "little tonic" and eat a scrumptious meal. But that's another story and there will be another day for telling it.
(Florence Morning News - Sunday, July 30, 1972 - 5-A)
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