Bristol honors country and community

COMMUNITY Once known as Brockville in the mid 1850’s, a name to recognize a local citizen, Joshua Brock, though little is known about what he may have done or accomplished. Heelstring was another name for the small town slightly east of Palmer. Historians say it came as a result of townfolk who had become addicted to dancing. Thanks to the Sparkman family in the late 1860’s, who operated a cotton…