y[ Community Remembers The settlers didn't travel far for an evening's entertainment during the early years but instead relied on neighborly get-togethers within the community. These events were hosted in the Orange Hall , the Presby¬ terian church, the school house, private homes, and at the beach in the summer. The Orange Hall was built by the Orangemen before 1880 and served the community until the early 1900s. The Orangemen were members of a Protestant political organization obligated to strive for the maintenance of Christian principles and practices and to steadfastly uphold allegiance to their country's government and constitution. The Orange Hall is shown in the 1880 Atlas on the northeast corner of the road leading to Ives Upper Mill. The Orange Hall was available to many organizations who met in the community including the Go Preachers and the Farmers' Institute. Maxwell Lefurgey told the story of two girls, Annie Todd and Molly Spouse , who came as Go Preachers to North Tryon . One Sunday evening, after the service at the Presbyterian Church, these ladies were holding their worship service in the Lodge Room which was on the upper floor of the hall. Two of the local youths purloined a rooster and a ladder from a nearby farm and released the bird through an open window. The frightened bird landed on a table which was serving as a pulpit where it upset two oil lamps, plunging the room into darkness and the meeting into chaos. Fortunately no fire resulted from the prank. At one time Hamilton Gamble used the ground floor of the hall as a display room for farm machinery. He sold mowers, hay rakes, plows, harrows, and jaunting sleighs for the Frost & Wood Machinery Co .. The Orange Hall was moved before 1915 to be used for a barn on the farm of John T. Dawson , now the Vance Dixon farm. It has since been destroyed. Variety concerts, plays, and debates were a good source of entertain¬ ment. The variety concert was often accompanied by the box social where men would bid on the box of eats or Washington pie their wives or lady friends had taken; sometimes these would go for quite a high price, especially when a young gentleman was anxious to get the box brought by that special girl. Card parties were a social and fund raising activity. They were held either in homes or the school. Each player paid a fee that covered the evening's entertainment, prizes, and lunch; the proceeds were used to purchase school room supplies. The single school desks which replaced the double desks were acquired with funds realized from Womens' Institute sponsored card parties held at the homes of Max Lefurgey , Mabel Sawler , Sterling Lord , Ray Wood , Albert Callbeck , Olive Dawson , and others. Home made ice cream socials were a good place to meet friends, as well as to make some extra cash for 124