SCIWAY thanks Charles K. Hardin of Greer for this picture he took in April 2012.

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Amazingly, given its age, the building has not undergone any major renovations since it was built. When Seaboard stopped its passenger line in the 1960s, the depot stood vacant for 20 years. Eventually, it was purchased by the Town of McBee and converted into the McBee Library and Railroad Museum. It is now listed in the National Historic Register.

Many thanks to Melissa Roberts of Barnwell for these great pictures she took in 2012.

In 1987, the theater was purchased by the Saluda County Council and donated to the newly chartered Saluda County Historical Society, which fully restored the theater and established the Saluda County Museum in an adjoining building. Today the theater is home to the Saluda Players, the city’s community theater group.

The Saluda Theatre was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

SCIWAY thanks Ann Helms of Spartanburg for sharing this picture she took in 2010.

For more information, please visit the church’s website.

SCIWAY thanks Sandy Dimke of Beaufort for sharing this photo she took in 2011.

SCIWAY thanks Thomas Moorer of Mount Pleasant for sharing this picture he took in June 2011.

The school was originally located on farmland in the Midway Community just outside Gaffney. It was constructed by brothers Jimmy and Tom Pettit (with the help from other Cherokee County residents) and went through 11th grade. The name “Possum Trot” most likely comes from the fact that students reached the school by following an already existing possum trail through the nearby woods.

With the construction of newer, larger schools, Possum Trot School was abandoned and eventually fell into disrepair. In 1969, Louise Phifer Camp hired local builder Ernest Wyatt to restore the schoolhouse as a gift for her husband Bill Camp, a Gaffney native who attended the school with his siblings. Although the school had greatly deteriorated over the years, its foundation was still intact, which made it possible for Wyatt to restore the building to its original measurements. For more information on the restoration process, see this newspaper article from July 1970.

Due to a property transfer in 1992, the school had to be moved to its current location next to Hamrick’s department store on Peachoid Road. It now sits just a half-mile from the famous Gaffney Peachoid.

Special thanks to the Cherokee Historical and Preservation Society for sharing the history of the schoolhouse.

SCIWAY thanks Ann Helms of Spartanburg for this information and picture she took in 2010.

Originally called Church on the Rock, the chapel was built in the late 1830s to serve Wadmalaw plantation owners who spent their summers in Rockville to escape the heat and threat of malaria. Unlike many nearby churches, Grace Episcopal was spared during the Civil War.

Several improvements were made to the chapel after the war, including the addition of the chancel which was built in 1890. Following the devastating Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893, the chapel was used as a meeting place by American Red Cross founder Clara Barton, who came to Rockville to organize recovery efforts.

The chapel is included in the Rockville Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Many thanks to David Seamon of Mount Pleasant for sharing this photo he took in 2009.

Completed in 1915, this 133-foot tower provides the city with 100,000 gallons of water — it also serves as one of Colleton County‘s most interesting landmarks. This tower and the Belton Standpipe in Anderson County are the only standpipe towers in the state. The lower portion of the tower was used as the city’s jail for a short time in the early 1900s. Later, the jail cells were offered to stranded travelers in need of a place to stay for the night.

The water tower is included in the Walterboro Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

SCIWAY thanks Becky Morehead of Walterboro for sharing this picture she took in January 2010.