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5\-:ao Jb Supplement to Tint Brunswick Boac 'ALc in MAKJOKIK MFGIYKKN 1'here's not much higher compli- I mcnt you can pay any community I than to say with Gilbert Grissett that his birthnlace is home to "a lot of good people." The area that bears hLs family name, about etiiht miles south of Shallotte. revolves mostly around the intersection of U.S. 17 and Hwy. !?04. It stretches out some five miles to the south, east and west, with a mixed economy of farming arid small " sinesses. Thomasboro is on the southern border. Wishing Well Campground on the west, and the tirissettown-I.ongwood Fire Department on the east. The 74-year-old Grissett. enjoying retirement hobbies of bee-keeping and raising fantail doves, is now the patriarch of the clan. His greatgrandfather. William Grissett. own on. limit.' man urn years aim, all Uie land that now makes up the communis The name Grissettown liates hack in the mid-HHh century. William's descendants are still plentiful in the area, hut they were supplemented over the years by a lot of Somersetts. Wards and Hewetts. , Union and Gilbert Grissett. second cousins, don't have a lot of historical < facts on tap. but they remember their i childhood, when there was no U.S. 1? ' bisection the community. "There 1 W ,i / Taiflorfa I ?L\L LL -| Acid Dyes ouTins an< iV' Eyelets ?Tro[ pV"':' 90-inch Qu |?^'- 45- inch Pi I R s ; Everything For Baby f f'j ? CRAI Wood'Belt Making* Cross Stitch*Quiltin b ronerns ? v-urta?n Please excuse oi_ '^afriic RPV Holden Beach Road, > MO" ' ,0 9 TU< on July-August 1988 >t Of Go ivas just the Old Shallotte Road, and ots of people raised cattle and sold Lurpentine." Hulon Grissett recalled. Gilbert remembered the busy - w ... % rnuiuB* VtAKjumt MtCIViRN GILBERT GRISSETT tends to one i)f his fantail doves, a hobby he pursues along with bee-keeping at his Cirissettown home. ? Linens ^sij d Laces ^v-1 I f? /-~I I D V i K-\ 4- r? '% -J i V_V_J i i i 11 11 i lilt Tops 1 low Top W Quilts and Fabrics ^ ??| FTS- 1 'Knitting*Crochet ft 1 g*Pillows*Clocks ^ | Material ? Foam f ir growing pains! Hwy. 130, Shallotte :s.-Sat. 9 to 6 r| (1 J od Peop highway as an unpaved road, with a restaurant and big general store near the present intersection. "It was just a little farm community." he said, noting that tobacco and corn were the chief crops. Farms are still to be found, especially west of the highway, but more and more families like that of Marie Somersett exchanged nurirnlfurp for himinocc "We farmed here till 1968," she n^sr ; r BEEF C4ICKE 6 PORK B! tsfuy .-'jilo' . m? PORK, BEE OPEN 5: April-May: June-August: Thu September-Nover Phone: 287/V Catering Blue Grass Musi Cloaaina. Sauan Southport Long Beach ?tn Wi laLpaton y , ? Aporo*. VO si. to Wilmington Appro*. 30 ?i. to Myrtle 8each Appro*. 30 oi. to Whiteville '98b T Hi BRUNSWICK BtACON le Live Hi said, "then we moved to the intersection to start a construction business." Her combined construction and realty office lias lots of company at the crossroads. A service stationgrocery store is next door and across the road is a fish house, an oyster house, a garage, a net shop, body shop and honey company, to name only a few. A big brick building, owned by Glen Parker, just across 904 on U.S. ?BSV i . ? --in gim 7/(KMC lOHOLElt BIT F and CHICKEN 00 PM-9:00 PM... Friday and Saturday rsday, Friday and Sc nber: Friday and Sa1 3505 (Bus.) or 287-; \ichael Sims, Manac Private Par c Family Ent< e Dancing All-You-Ca Ocean Holden Beach o ... 7 ?lles Shallotte HW1 17 Cauti Griss X.Ui<3 b i s * c m ? O o .*? Ks O e ? ?; ~ s ?< ^ ' * rrtan ^/ ! ** |Countr^ / i - ~" ? I 11 I O ' \ long-wood A tpf rhy^ir*? Soldier Bat w Baptist Church sre' | 17 is now vacant but has been many I tilings to many people. As an adult I book store it was the target of county I dismay, then in a complete about- I face it served for several months as a I non-denominational storefront I church. But Grissettown's most interesting I residents are those who patronize Coastalina Pines Sun Club, tucked in | among the trees west of the highwa\. SB (See A LOT. Page 28) iOOD FOOD 1 IOOD MUSIC rj 0 /\lqnUJL\ t-LJ H v? BAR-B-QUE CLOSED Dacember 3turday Thru :urday March *225 (Home) ier ties srtainment n-Eat Buffet Isle Hwy 179 Sunset Beach \^Calat>ash = l\\ " V i Y on light ^ Thoaasboro \ ettovn lto Myrtle Beach '"o o a hal1ot te 3 t Church j. ft ~ 5 T * \ oc I ^ Of I i J lonqwood f \ O ro V"
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