A statue honors Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates, the Fountain Inn native who lost a leg in a cotton-gin accident and became a celebrated one-legged tap dancer. Bates later appeared repeatedly on national television and operated a major Black-owned resort in New York.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: scpictureproject.org/greenville-county/peg-leg-bates.html