Rock City Barns

These used to dot the road ways. "See Rock City" painted on the roofs and sides of barns.First painted in 1935, there were as many as 900. Rock City was an attraction in Chattanooga, TN and the owners obviously had an ambitious marketing plan to paint barns from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. In 2005, 70 years after the first barns were painted less than 100 remained. This one is in Robbinsville, North Carolina.

As a bit if trivia, a gentleman by the name of Clark Byers painted the barns for 30 years until 1969. Over that time his handwork could be seen in 19 states.  Some of the more descriptive signs read “Beautiful Beyond Belief,” “The Eighth Wonder Of The World,” “Bring Your Camera,” and  “When You See Rock City, You See The Best.” (As in the above example.)

Old Doors

Examples of doors on abandoned houses in rural South Carolina. The tenants are long since gone.

Old Blue Truck

Located in the middle of a field in Newberry, South Carolina, this truck was abandoned - just stripped of all its chrome and left to the elements.

Rusty House Trailer

A trailer having seen its better days. An addition to the side makes one think it was more permanent than the concrete blocks would otherwise indicate. This is located on Edisto Island on Steam Boat Landing Road.

Red Barn

Old red barn still standing and doing its part on the farm.

Old Wooden Store

An old wooden store in down town Society Hill, South Carolina. Boarded up now, it still has the Penz Oil sign on the door. The lovely weathered wood has stood the time.

Blue House in Fort Motte

A blue house, almost lost in the brush in Fort Motte, South Carolina, a ghost town now, having two claims to fame: one being briefly considered for the capitol of the state of South Carolina and the other where Julia Peterkin, the 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning author of Scarlet Sister Mary, taught in the local school. She was married to William Peterkin and lived with him on his cotton plantaton, Lang Syne, near Fort Motte.