Stumphouse Tunnel and Isaqueena Falls
For whatever reason, I've never been to Stumphouse Tunnel and Issaqueena Falls before now. Considering the site features tunnels from a never completed railroad, and a nearby waterfall with a lovers leap type legend, it's a mystery why it took so long for this site to bubble up to the top of my to-visit list. Both sites are located off Stumphouse Tunnel Road , itself off S.C. 28, a few miles north of Walhalla. Introduction Stumphouse Tunnel was one of three planned tunnels in South Carolina for the Blue Ridge Railroad , a 195 mile railroad to be built from Anderson, South Carolina, to West Union, South Carolina, to near Clayton, Georgia then north up to Knoxville, Tennessee. The motivation for the project was to provide a more direct route for goods to travel between South Carolina and Tennessee, cutting out the much longer, costlier ways required at the time to avoid the mountains. The Blue Ridge Railroad obtained a charter from South Carolina in 1852, but work on the ...