South Carolina Country Roads
Of Train Depots, Filling Stations and Other Vanishing Charms
Charleston, South Carolina : The History Press, 2018.
Format: Book
Description: 158 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Venture off the beaten path to forgotten roads, where a hidden South Carolina exists. Time-travel and dead-end at a ferry that leads to wild islands. Cross a rusting steel truss bridge into a scene from the 1930s. Behold an old gristmill and imagine its creaking, clashing gears grinding corn. See an old gas pump wreathed in honeysuckle. Drive through a ghost town and wonder why it died. When's the last time you saw a country store's cured hams hanging from wires? How about a vintage Bull Durham tobacco ad on old brick? Tom Poland explores scenic back roads that lead to heirlooms tomatoes, poke salad, restaurants once gas stations, overgrown ruins and other soulful relics.
Contents:
Wreckage along the back roads -- Cedars and cemeteries -- A drive through the backcountry -- An open-air cinema shines on -- Down a graveled road, part I -- Down a graveled road, part II -- A country store carries on -- The upcountry, the beautiful -- A fondness for old gas pumps -- Wall dogs' ghost signs -- A train rolls through it -- Salters: a whistle-stop kind of place -- The old hand pump -- Willington: a history village -- Down in Camellia land, part I -- Down in Camellia land, part II -- The mortgage lifter -- That tantalizing smoke -- From a back road to backwaters -- Searching for promised land -- Follow the red-shouldered hawk -- Vanishing tenant homes -- Sojourn into Spanish moss country and beyond -- Like going to Africa -- Down by the Catawba River.
ISBN:
146713886X
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LH TRAVEL SC Pol | Main (Downtown) | Local History Nonfiction | Available for in-library use |
TRAVEL North Am. US SC Pol | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/11/2024) |
TRAVEL North Am. US SC Pol | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/16/2024) |
TRAVEL North Am. US SC Pol | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | Held |