Category: 30. Oral history

    1045. “The Origin of ‘Scuffletown’.” Lumberton Argus 15 Nov. 1904: 1.

Publication type: Newspaper article

Wash Lowrie reports that wagoners hauling in whiskey used to camp under a mulberry tree. Men gathered there to drink and scuffle around until their wives took them home. See also Evans (entry 1118), p. 29 note 18.

Additional subjects: Lowry, Washington | Pembroke (town) | Scuffletown (place name)

This annotation first appeared in The Lumbee Indians: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 1994), by Glenn Ellen Starr.

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