Mark's Photo Travels

When it comes to choosing where to go on my outings, I usually end up choosing the last thing that caught my interest before making a decision. And this time is no different. I happened to come across the website for Rock City Gardens , an attraction located on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga Tennessee. The page that interested me most was the one for their map of Rock City barns , barns much like the ones I remember seeing while traveling during summer vacations when I was little. Their map showed a barn located a few miles south of Abbeville. Earlier last week I found the time to visit this barn, and a few others old buildings along the way and back. My route took me down U.S. 25 to Hodges, down S.C. 185 and S.C. 203 to Abbeville, then S.C. 72 and S.C. 28 to the Bethel community where the Rock City Barn is located. I'll briefly as possible describe the stops I made along the way and back. Southern Greenville County About a mile south of Moonville at  7788 Augusta Road...

Earlier in the week I toured some of the small towns of Greenwood, Abbeville, and Laurens Counties with Tom Taylor , a fine fellow I first met in person at Pinckneyville . Tom has already written about his experiences , and I'm ready to share mine. Tom had some time off coming up, and he was ready and willing to spend part of a day searching for ghost towns. After some back and forth, we settled on finding Shoals Junction. The name came to our attention from the South Carolina section of the Abandoned Rails website, more specifically the Ware Shoals Railroad section  of the site. Several small communities surround Shoals Junction and so we decided to tour as many of these communities as time allowed. Turns out time allowed for quite a nice tour! Ware Shoals Ware Shoals was on the way to Shoals Junction so it was a good place to visit first. After a tour of the town, including a drive by the old mill site on Mill St., the Ware S...