I go through Hemi gway just get BBQ from the Scotts.
Forgotten or absorbed towns across South Carolina
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USCBatgirl21
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St. Johns High of Darlington and McCleneghan High of Florence. Darlington went for six years in the late 50s and early 60s with only 3 losses, all to McCleneghan High.
USCBatgirl21
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Mom is from Hemingway.
My mother grew up in Scotia, S.C. It lies along U.S. 321 in Hampton County, three miles south of Estill. My grandmother had the post office and a general store there. The Seaboard trains, not the Silver Meteor, stopped there to take on passengers and mail. It was before my time, but there were several stores and even a hotel there. Now there are a couple of gas stops on the highway and the train depot is gone.
D’town WEST In Greenville is a HOT spot d’town . Fortunately and Unfortunately.... housing in that area
is totally flipping. Investors are buying, tearing down and rebuilding throughout the Parker area.
5 years from now or thereabouts.... The original families or older folks will definitely not recognize
the area. Always had fun playing Parker in sports. Lots of buds went there. My son actually went there
while they remodeled Greenville High School.
( sorry for the babbling 😎)
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The dearth of textiles has never been redeemed by anything else in most such towns. Lancaster and Chester are pitiful. Lancaster County is booming in the Indian Land area but the city has deteriorated tragically.
Kershaw's only saving grace is the mine. And it's booming, figuratively and literally.
I dont know if it had anything to do with it but I do know the name change pissed off the Citadel quite a bit... and did for decades.
Andrews was the first one that I thought of too.
I'll tell you a small town that seems to be thriving is Cameron (or so it appears to be whenever I drive through). Wonder what they did to keep people and their money from leaving? I assume it's the farming industry but really know nothing about the town.
Have y'all seen the articles about certain places enticing people that now work from home to move to their rural areas? (West Virginia is the one the comes to mind, but I believe other smaller cities/towns are doing the same). It would be nice if there was a push to revitalize these towns by enticing remote workers to move there somehow.
I'll tell you a small town that seems to be thriving is Cameron (or so it appears to be whenever I drive through). Wonder what they did to keep people and their money from leaving? I assume it's the farming industry but really know nothing about the town.
Have y'all seen the articles about certain places enticing people that now work from home to move to their rural areas? (West Virginia is the one the comes to mind, but I believe other smaller cities/towns are doing the same). It would be nice if there was a push to revitalize these towns by enticing remote workers to move there somehow.
I’m a gloverville product till I was 12.I remember going to the graniteville rocks games and my dad burning his clutch on the steap hill up by leavelle/mcCampbell.(I went there for 1 year) I didn’t have much but I had a great childhood.
Slater Marietta Greenwaves. Right up the road.
Does the interstate pass by or not, simple as that. The towns off the exits grow. The towns like Saluda that are missed by 20 and 26 stagnate
I knew a man that helped move homes and stores from Ellington to their new home in New Ellington.
Not so fast my friend, phs was the golden tornado.....(singular).......furman university was the purple tornado/hurricane.
Paris......back in high school we get some adult beverages & go liberate it....yeehaw
USCBatgirl21
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I26 is about 5 1/2 miles west of Cameron (exit 149). It's on 176 (Old State Road), that runs parallel to I26 on the Santee side.
I wouldn't say Cameron has grown, per se. It just hasn't died like others.
I work for the school district and I've been in that school before we sold it to the private school. Several homeless people broke into the building and we ran them off. Plus rats as big as cats .
I go through McBee every week or two weeks on my way to relatives in NC. I am amazed at the economic activity in that little place with no interstate. In addition to McLeod Farms ( I stop at the little store going and coming in peach season), there's the AO Smith water heater plant(parking lot stayed full all during COVID), MarMac Wire, and a $40million Nestle(Deer Park) bottled water plant with 60 employees. Any town of fewer than a thousand residents would be ecstatic to have what they have.
Interesting. I haven't driven through that section in years, it will be interesting to see how things develop.
Yeah, that's what is so interesting about Cameron to me. The interstate does NOT pass by it but like you said, it hasn't died like so many other small towns.
I grew up in Olar, a very, very small town on Highway 321 not far from Allendale. The opening of I-95 did not impact very much because Highway 301 was the major route to Florida. All of my family is gone and have no reason to go back. It is depressing to see what has happened to the area. Thought it was a great little place to grow up because I did not know any difference. I never thought about moving back to that area after I finished Carolina undergrad and then law school.
Yeah, after I asked the question I did a search and found the answer to when and why. Should have done that before I asked the question.
My first job, upon graduating from Carolina, was providing consulting services, including to Allendale County government in 1977. As early as then, before you moved to there as a baby, it was obvious to me that the interstate killed Allendale. If memory serves, the late Governor Robert McNair came from Allendale.
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They've got a lot of conflicting ideas with people between Winnsboro and Fairfield County. Lots of old blood that refuses to give in to the progress that you're seeing in Blythewood and Chester. The big patch of trees you see between those two areas is Fairfield. So much potential. They've shot themselves in the foot numerous times, and that's not counting losing multiple industries such as the Mack truck plant. Then throw in the nuclear plant fiasco, and they've been all but doomed. It's a huge area as well.
If it had been done in modern day, one would figure that Furman found something politically incorrect about the name Hurricanes.
... and if they had to change it now, Paladins wouldnt be an option.
And I am sure that another nickname change is probably being discussed as they are afraid the name Paladins might offend some lightweight somewhere. Of course at the rate they are going, Furman may totally ditch sports altogether outside of basketball before it is over.
My family is from Ellenton. Only 2 are still alive, but oh the stories they tell about those very sad times. My Dad could talk about it for hours.
I remember McCleneghan’s last year, 1975. We played the 3A state tennis tournament at Francis Marion and they were the Host school.
God, I know I’m being that guy, so apologies in advance. EVERYBODY in SC pronounces it Ellington but it is Ellenton. I actually googled it before posting because I have always pronounced it Ellington just like my father from Williston taught me.
Not true. See chester, Fairfield, great falls.
We used to have camps and sports award ceremonies at that park. Sad indeed.
