County father W.T. Moore recalls early days

  • The Regal Hotel, a three-story landmark on downtown Murphy square, fronted on two streets, with a bank and a department store on the ground floors. It was gutted by fire in July 1978, and later demolished to make way for a bank. This photo is from a postcard.
    The Regal Hotel, a three-story landmark on downtown Murphy square, fronted on two streets, with a bank and a department store on the ground floors. It was gutted by fire in July 1978, and later demolished to make way for a bank. This photo is from a postcard.
I started reporting on meetings of the Cherokee County Commissioners in the fall of 1969, and it was a politically tangled setup, to say the least. Both parties fought hard to elect state…

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