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COMING SOON: Grindall Shoals – Colonial Ghost Town (1755-1885)

Posted on 15 January, 2013 by nwfulmer — No Comments ↓
Grindall Shoals

Grindal Shoals is the site of a Colonial ghost town built near a shallow ford on the Pacolet River in what is now Union and Cherokee Counties. The town existed here because a slab of granite, virtually impervious to the Continue reading →

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COMING SOON: Fort Fremont (1899-1921)

Posted on 14 January, 2013 by nwfulmer — No Comments ↓
Fort Fremont in Beaufort

Fort Freemont, an abandoned US Military installation in Beaufort County, is perhaps my favorite 20th century ruin in the SC Lowcountry.  Now a part of Fort Fremont Preserve owned by the Beaufort County Rural and Critical Lands Program, no period Continue reading →

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COMING SOON: Bethel AME Church, Laurens (1802-1998)

Posted on 14 January, 2013 by nwfulmer — No Comments ↓
Laurens Church - Bethel AME

If you haven’t noticed, old church buildings are a favorite subject here at PBS.  Following nearly a century of use the Bethel AME sanctuary near downtown Laurens has been abandoned since 1998.  The building is in such bad shape it Continue reading →

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COMING SOON: Shamrock Hotel (1909-1970)

Posted on 14 January, 2013 by nwfulmer — No Comments ↓
Shamrock Hotel

The Shamrock Hotel in Blackville was built in the early 1900′s and operated until the mid 1960′s, with store on the ground floor operating for a few years later.  Please excuse the rain-splashed lens… these shots were snapped between scattered Continue reading →

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COMING SOON: Shivar Springs Bottling Co. (1900-1951)

Posted on 14 January, 2013 by nwfulmer — No Comments ↓
Shivar Springs Cisterns - Fairfield County

The six lonely cylindrical cisterns being consumed by a young forest are the most visible, intact evidence of the Shivar Springs Bottling Company in Fairfield County .  These cisterns are a group of very large stuccoed stone containers with concrete Continue reading →

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COMING SOON: Paul Hamilton House (1725-1929)

Posted on 14 January, 2013 by nwfulmer — No Comments ↓
Paul Hamilton House

The Paul Hamilton House, locally referred to as the Brick House Ruin or Ruins, is an impressive ruin of a plantation house on Edisto Island.

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COMING SOON: “Deepcore” film set from The Abyss (1989)

Posted on 12 January, 2013 by nwfulmer — No Comments ↓
DeepCore film Set, Gaffney.

Just outside of Gaffney, S.C. lies an abandoned partially-constructed Nuclear Power Plant, also former resting place of the “DeepCore” movie set for James Cameron’s The Abyss.

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COMING SOON: Walterboro Drive In Theater 1951-1990

Posted on 12 January, 2013 by nwfulmer — No Comments ↓
Walterboro Drive-In, Walterboro, SC.

My first job after graduating high school was co-managing a 50-year-old drive in in rural Virginia with my wife Diana, an experience that instilled an affinity for old outdoor theaters in both of us.   Located on Highway 63, the Continue reading →

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COMING SOON: Kingville – Ghost Town (1842-1939)

Posted on 9 January, 2013 by nwfulmer — No Comments ↓
Kingville3

Thanks to its swampside location on the Congaree River, William T. Sherman and one of the worst floods in state history, the town of Kingville was destined to disappear. All that’s left of this bustling railroad town that once supported Continue reading →

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COMING SOON: Artificial Ruin – Chapel from The Patriot (1998)

Posted on 8 January, 2013 by nwfulmer — No Comments ↓
Patriot set - Cypress Gardens Facade

This interesting facade in Cypress Gardens near Goose Creek looks like it fits right in with many of the centuries-old church ruins across the Carolina Lowcountry, but it’s less than 15 years old!  Seems colonist Mel Gibson built this 18th Continue reading →

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Fascinated with old brick and abandoned sites since he was a boy, South Carolina native Nate Fulmer holds a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology and Archaeology from the College of Charleston. As a student of archaeology, he has worked on numerous historic sites in a variety of contexts. Nate currently lives in historic downtown Charleston with his wife Diana. This blog is largely a product of exploratory weekend excursions across the state and fieldwork on archaeological sites in the Lowcountry.

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  • COMING SOON: Grindall Shoals – Colonial Ghost Town (1755-1885)
  • COMING SOON: Fort Fremont (1899-1921)
  • COMING SOON: Bethel AME Church, Laurens (1802-1998)
  • COMING SOON: Shamrock Hotel (1909-1970)
  • COMING SOON: Shivar Springs Bottling Co. (1900-1951)

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