Well,
with school over, the world lies before me. Nearly a year of
confinement is ending and I look forward to exploring the world in
front of me. Between kids and a desire to escape the heat, my
weaving and winding paths often took me to the Upstate ...
Diversion
canal and Catawba River valley,
Great Falls, S.C.
In
colonial times, the town of Great Falls acquired its name for the
formerly-breathtaking view of the waterfalls on the Catawba River
near the present-day town. To supply power to the town's now-long-closed
four textile mills, the river was diverted into a diversion canal.
However, one can still see the vast river valley where the river once
flowed.
Halfacre
Family Cemetery,
Near the town of Newberry, S.C.
I
ran across this cemetery alongside my company's project on SC Route
219 near Newberry. This cemetery, containing a couple of dozen
plots, was used for just a couple of decades in the late 1800's, then
overgrown and forgotten until the woods nearby were cleared for our
project.
Military
Air Crash marker,
Somewhere in Newberry County, S.C.
On
a narrow, winding county road through the Sumter National Forest,
between Whitmire and Newberry, is a memorial marker to a crew killed
in a military plane crash in that are on the date of my birthday -
February 5 - in 1943. May they Rest in Peace.
Old
Duncan Bridge,
Whitmire, S.C.
Right
off SC Route 66 (... get your kicks here?), just south of town is
an old bridge, just a few hundred yards north of the current Route
66 bridge, which connects the town to Interstate 26.
Rose
Hill Plantation,
Southwestern Union County, S.C.
Deep
in the thickest, most remote areas of the Sumter National Forest in
Union County is the Rose Hill Plantation. Kinda strange to find
it in it's location, far from anything or anywhere, but there it is
...
Cross
Key House,
Southern Spartanburg County, S.C.
You
can find this house in southern Spartanburg County. Apparently,
its claim to fame was as one of Confederate President Jefferson Davis'
stopping points in his flight from Richmond in the closing days of
the Civil War.
