HUGH HAMMOND BENNETT 1881-1960
"Father of soil conservation." First chief of the Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1935-1952. Born 4 miles southwest.
K-55Anson County
Where it stands. US 74 at SR 1259 (Anson High School Road) west of Wadesboro
The spirit of expansion and speculation was not confined to the deposit banks, but pervaded the whole multitude of banks throughout the Union and was giving rise to new institutions to aggravate the evil.
