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Podcast: Small Town News
Episode: Cheraw, SC - The Surgeon General Needs to Mellow Out
Description: Welcome to Cheraw, SC, the "Prettiest Town in Dixie!" Located along the Pee Dee River, the area was originally inhabited by the Pee Dee and Cheraw tribes. Wars and disease decimated the population, and by the time of the American Revolution, only a few Native Americans remained in the area. The area was settled by Europeans beginning in the 1740s, and played a role in both the Revolutionary War and Civil War. Cheraw faced economic hardship after the Civil War, but return to prosperity in the early 1900s. Jazz great Dizzy Gillespie was born in Cheraw, as was Cyndi Laupe...