The Most Beautiful Villages and Towns of the SouthNowhere is the quintessence of Southern life so intensely expressed as in the villages and towns photographed and described in this book. Marked sometimes by the violent events of historyfirst settlement, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil Warand the explosive growth of the cotton economy, these towns and villages appear in the book as they developed across the South. The region divides naturally into four geographic areas, each one a stage along