♪ Teresa Hurst> Clover is a small town in western York County.

I think what makes Clover special is our people.

We really have a sense of community.

Bo Legg> We're a secret.

So, you know, you kind of want to keep that secret at heart.

What we're known for is good food, laid back lifestyle, safe community, a really good place to live.

John Paoloca> All of these people that genuinely care about humanity and doing the right thing, that's what really is Clover.

Chris Ferguson> It's just a sense of community here.

You know, everybody seems to know everybody, whether they move from New York to coming here, they just feel like they've been here forever, they said.

So they feel at home.

Teresa Hurst> A lot of people know the story of how Clover started.

We had a railroad line that ran through the middle of town, and there was a water tank.

The water spilled over from the tank and then Clover grew, hence came the town, Clover.

♪ In the last few years we have brought the Main Street program to Clover, you know, a place for people to gather and shop and eat.

I feel like if you have a thriving Main Street that, that will lift the rest of the town up.

Bo Legg> When our new town administrator took over, what we did is move the art gallery over here to the downtown square so that our neighbors and rental folks that use the...facility have a chance to see that artwork.

And sales have probably doubled or tripled from just moving it over here.

And all those funds go directly to the artists Teresa> Gallery 120, it is more accessible to people that are out shopping or walking by.

They can come in and see the art, and it has turned out to be a great addition to the art in Clover.

We have a lot more events in the town than we had in previous years.

One event that we're most proud of is the Saint Patrick's Day Festival.

We block the streets off.

We have vendors.

We have bands.

We usually kick it off the night before with food trucks and the next day, the festival is a day long festival.

We have a tremendous amount of people visiting that weekend, but this last year we had to expand the distance of the festival.

It's just grown bigger and bigger each year.

We're really proud of that.

♪ We worked hard to keep the small town feel, but at the same time, plan for the future.

The people here, we support each other.

We support our local businesses.

I think that's really special.

♪ ♪ Chris Ferguson> Clover has a unique downtown feel.

I grew up here.

Our family's been in construction for three generations, so we were able to get this building and turn it into a coffee shop.

We tore the walls out, when we got the building and saw the brick and mortar exposed.

So we wanted to name it after, you know, the people who built this building originally.

You get a lot of places where you go, and they got wi-fi and people go in to sit on tablets and phones.

But here we wanted it to be community like it used to be.

When I grew up here, everyone knew everybody.

We built a staircase with a fireplace, couch, tables, chairs, upstairs.

So you can just go to lounge and talk.

Come sit a while, have a cup of coffee and enjoy the camaraderie of whoever, you know, you bring with you.

We have people coming from Greenville and Dallas, North Carolina, and tons from Lake Wylie, and it's great to see people who come three, four, five times a week and say, you know, this is their spot.

They want to come down here because of the small town feel.

And we get now a lot of teachers coming.

We get book clubs.

We got people that do interviews and they'll bring them here.

Churches are holding Bible studies here.

It's been great for the community, but the growth of the downtown area has been great.

You used to come and see some people downtown, and now everything's starting to grow.

For a lot of towns, it's a bunch of different blocks and everything, but Clover seems to be more centralized.

So everyone can just park and then kind of reach all the shops from right here in this one little walking distance.

You know, Clover, I don't know.

I think it's just a sense of community and people that have been here forever, we'll all kind of stick together.

But it's also good to see the new folks that come in and it doesn't take them long.

You know, compared to a big city, they come here and they know everyone on a first name basis in just a short amount of time.

So, you know, I think that's the welcome that Clover brings to people.

♪ ♪ Marie Comer> What I love about Clover is small town feel.

There are lots of nice little restaurants, coffee shops, places to shop at and, of course our antique shop.

♪ Clover for a long time was a cotton town.

Because that's what this building is, is where they housed cotton and then transported it over to textile.

♪ I really like meeting the people and the types of people that come through.

All types of people come through.

And I like seeing where they're from, And what they really like in the shop.

♪ I like to come in and see what's new.

I always say, come and shop with us.

We have 40 booths and they're all stocked.

There is a treasure for everyone.

♪ ♪ John Paoloca> I'm originally from urban Philadelphia, so being out in the country in Clover, South Carolina makes a big difference.

Clover harvest has been open a little over three and a half years.

There was a need for a full service restaurant in the community.

The town's too small to have big corporations, so you need the small mom and pops.

The one thing I can say about this restaurant that is very unique is when people are dining outside, they can let their kids run around, and there's not many places that you can do that, especially in a restaurant.

We have that capability here because of all the extra space we have.

There's nothing more wonderful seeing than kids running around, parents enjoying themselves, eating, and they're not on their phones or just watching TV.

♪ We have a lot of great people around us, and not only with our staff, but the community people about also have small businesses.

We have over 12 vendors that we buy from locally, all within York County.

You know, again, that's community focus, as many people as local as we can, as close to Clover as possible.

The garden that we're in, we're in our third year is really, really our best year for it.

♪ When we harvest it, we give it to the Area Assistance Center.

♪ We've so far donated about 350 pounds.

Our goal is 1,000 pounds and we'll probably hit that next year.

We have it in our business plan to give to the community within this four walls and outside of this four walls.

The thing I love about Clover is people really do care, and it's so refreshing to know that still in this world today, that we live in, that people care.

You have people whose roots have been here for generations, and then you have all the people that are coming to this community from other parts of the world who are embracing, not changing, just embracing the Clover way of life.

You're only as good as the people you surround yourself with.

And that is what Clover is about.

The town with love in the middle.

♪ Ron Wallace> To see now downtown, it's unbelievable the number of people.

When I was small growing up, on Saturdays, it was packed like that.

Everybody was downtown.

But now it's all the time.

Of course, back then they rolled the street up at 6 o' clock but now it's longer, but it's still good.

Dick Jackson> The thing I like about Clover is the fact, it's such a warm, loving community.

I like the fact that we have great schools and it's a great place to raise your children and your grandchildren.

And it's just, it's, it's a home, and a place.

♪ (horn honks) Bo Legg> This is a community with love in the middle of it.

I couldn't think of a single instance if someone was in need, that someone in the community didn't step up to help them.

This is our town, Clover.

Teresa> This is our town, Clover.

Chris> This is our town, Clover.

John> This is our town, Clover.

Both> This is our town, Clover.

Marie> And this is our town, Clover.

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