Growth and Prosperity :
A History Of Garner
by Kelly Pattison with Sam Behringer,
$30.00, hard cover, 106 pages
Published: April 2004
ISBN 1880849-69-0

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The changing face of Garner reflects, in many ways, the adaptations of many small towns across the country. Garner was founded by farming families, centralized around a railroad line and modernized with the advent of technologies like the telephone and the automobile. Like residents of other communities that have matured in the rural South, the people in the Garner area have had to overcome bouts of poverty, institutionalized racism, and the loss of a strong agricultural job base.