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Historic Downtown Allendale

SCIWAY — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:23:32 +0000

This photo was taken in the spring of 1951 in historic downtown Allendale and shows the businesses on the east side of Main Street, which included at the time (from front to back): Carolina Commercial Bank, Farmer’s Drug Store, Allendale Hardware, Bennett’s Department Store, South Carolina Power Company (SCE&G), Sanitary Restaurant, and the Warren Hotel and drug store.

SCIWAY thanks Jim Bryan for sending us this historic picture and information.

Happy Home Baptist Church

SCIWAY — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:26:36 +0000

Happy Home Baptist Church is located at 336 Railroad Avenue West in Allendale. The congregation was founded shortly after the Civil War, when it met under a brush arbor in the Wood settlement of what was then Barnwell County.

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Some years later, the congregation moved to the Zion Branch community near Old Allendale, where members built their first sanctuary and adopted the name Zion Branch Baptist Church. They continued to worship there until 1875, when a new sanctuary was constructed and renamed Happy Home Baptist Church.

The current structure, a brick Gothic Revival building, was constructed in 1911, replacing the wooden frame sanctuary. Happy Home Baptist Church received its state historical marker in 2011.

SCIWAY thanks Mike Stroud of Bluffton for this picture, which he took in November 2011.

Sycamore Post Office

SCIWAY — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:37:06 +0000

The small town of Sycamore is located just west of the town of Allendale, at the junction of US 321 and SC 641. The community is named after the Sycamore Plantation, which was established here in the 1850s by William Ransome Barker.

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Nena Barnett of Simpsonville took this picture in July 2010. She says that “as we were traveling the back roads of South Carolina we came across this cute little post office. It was in a rural neighborhood, and even though it looks like a doll house, it is a functioning post office.”

Here is a map to the post office:

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Old Tailor Shop

SCIWAY — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:59:34 +0000

This handsome brick building, located in the town of Allendale, was originally a tailor’s shop but has been closed for quite some time. This picture, taken by Lamar Nix of Seabrook, won SCIWAY’s Allendale County Photo Contest in May of 2010.

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Lamar describes the scene for us, “Driving through Allendale, one cannot help noticing the grand old buildings along the main streets. The one pictured here has loads of character and has long been a favorite of mine. Fortunately the architectural treasures in this part of town are rapidly finding new life as chic boutique shops.”

Allendale County Courthouse

SCIWAY — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:54:43 +0000

The Allendale County Courthouse is a handsome and stately building appropriate to a hall of justice.

It sits at the end of a long avenue with gardens situated in the median. The gardens are being replanted and manicured which makes the view even grander.

Roselawn Plantation

SCIWAY — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:15:02 +0000

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