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Legend items blur family tribute and local myths in Aiken
The Penland family confirms burial on a club grounds but refuses to reveal exact gravesite location. In nearby legends, residents question driveway car washing, a sought fountain of youth at Coker Spring, Minnie Pearl’s Aiken hat tale, bypass chatter in Hitchcock Woods, and an old law banning cars within a mile of a horse.
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Peggy Penland
Penland
Woodside Plantation
Woodside
Pat Cunning
Side
Wood Development
Aiken
Coker Spring
Aiken County
Minnie Pearl
Simon & Schuster
Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon
Pilots Club
Highland Park Hotel
Cannon
Grand ‘Ole Opry
Minnie Peart
Rabold
Hitchcock Foundation
Thomas Hitchcock
Helen Clark
Foundation
America
Arizona