An old mill for cotton or lumber
Our son Carl and I had to drive to Columbia, inland a couple of hours from the coast where we live, twice this spring. Once to deliver photos for the SC Wildlife Magazine contest and then again to pick them up, but without any ribbons this year. Carl hates Interstates, so we went all on country back roads, some not even paved. He knows them all from the motorcycle days of his youth. It didn't take us much longer and was soooooo much nicer to do and see. We left the rice growing plantations and went through the sand hills and the piedmont regions where tobacco and cotton were king. The heyday of this area is definitely over. We loved seeing the old farm buildings and imagining how it might have been in the middle of the 20th century when these farms were still very active.
Tobacco drying barn
Share cropper's house
Tobacco barn again 
Gas station and general store
Teeny gas station at the crossroads 
It was a misty morning one of the days and this wonderful house looked so sad.
A storage shed 
This was a long dairy barn. We did still see some active dairy farms.
Hope you enjoyed this little look into the past of rural South Carolina. Let me know!Thanks.
