Where we started and how we ended up here.
April 1969 Mrs. McCullough of Orlean Traveling Around: Visiting The Orlean Market The Orlean Market, located exactly in the center of the Village of Orlean, has a long and colorful history in our community. It is now the home of Giliam's Pub, named for Sandy and Bill Gilliam, former owners who welcomed neighbors into a community landmark with good food and liquid refreshments. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown Rector lived next door to the store in what is now Gilliam's pub. Their house constructed by John Russell in 1907, was the home of many evenings of fun and dancing for local young men. Mr. Dudley Payne, father of Judge H. Dudley Payne, told about how pretty the Rector girls were and related how he rode horseback to the house, to help roll up the rugs before the music started. Tuberculosis was rampant at that time so some of the children in the community thought that Mr. Rector's nickname "T.B" meant that he had tuberculosis himself. ...