Do you have archives of old photographs? Are you knowledgeable about your local history? Would you like to help preserve Easley’s fascinating history?
The importance of family collections cannot be overemphasized. Vintage photographs become increasingly fragile and by scanning and reproducing them in a book, they become available for all to see.
Under the direction of the Easley Chamber of Commerce a committee of local residents, Ms. Brantli Owens, Dub Fortner, Jack Ragsdale, Jim Stewart, Kent Dykes, and Vicki Fletcher is currently compiling a photographic history of Easley. They are looking for your help! They are assembling historic images of Easley and the stories that go with them to include in an upcoming book to be published by Arcadia Publishing in its Images of America series. Arcadia is the nation’s leading publisher of local and regional history.
To share your photographs and stories, please contact Brantli Owens at 607-8190 or email: brantlio@hotmail.com or to the Easley Chamber of Commerce at 859-2693, email: kent@easleychamber.org by March 15.
Help keep Easley’s history alive!
Top Photo (left to right) at the 1948 Easley Spring Festival are Jo Ann Powell Painter and Martha Ann Reeves Hilliyer. The 1948 Pontiac is driven by Dub Fortner.
Bottom Photo: Dr. Llewellyn Calhoun Johnson was one of the first female physicians in Easley. Her office was in downtown on the top floor of the original block of buildings on Main Street. This photo was made in the early 1920’s.
