215 register for Townville High reunion

In Townville, the farm-centered community that divides Oconee and Anderson counties, there once was a high school.  And that school and many of the memories made there are going to flood back during a reunion of the members of all graduating classes.  Mitchell Cole, a member of the 1965 graduating class, says 215 people have registered for Saturday night’s reunion that will take place at what today is the Townville Elementary School.  Cole, a retired banker who today represents the Belton area on the Anderson County Council, says the history of the school dates back to the World War One era and is remembered by many as a place where, at times, education would break for hoeing and picking cotton.  A cotton crap was a staple then for that Oconee-Anderson farm community. Townville High School was closed by a 1969 vote of the South Carolina Board of Education.