Mark's Photo Travels

While plotting my return home last Saturday from the Bon Haven house , I noticed the Hub City Railroad Museum was only a short distance away along my path home. The museum has been on my to-visit list for some time, and having nothing of any importance to do at home, I decided to stop by. The Hub City Railroad Museum opened May 2010  in part of the Magnolia Street Station on Magnolia Street in the old baggage room. Most of the rest of the building houses a waiting area for an Amtrack train station. Magnolia Street Station, known Spartanburg Union Station "back in the day", was built in 1904 as a train station for  Southern Railway , Clinchfield Railroad , and Charleston & Western Carolina Railway . This post card  in Spartanburg County Library's digital collection, dated in the 1910s, shows the train station before most of it was torn down in 1971: Another post card from the same time period shows a different angle: This photo at the SC Digital Li...

Last Sunday, I finally had a chance to visit the Travelers Rest History Museum  run by the Travelers Rest Historical Society . The museum has been open since late August on Saturdays and Sundays, but I usually have other commitments those days. But not this day. The museum is located at 3 Edwards Street , just south of downtown Travelers Rest in the area where U.S. 276 and U.S. 25 briefly mingle. The Swamp Rabbit Trail passes by a few feet away, and their parking lot also doubles as Swamp Rabbit Trail parking. When I arrived, some kind of event was being held on the Swamp Rabbit Trail. Police were stationed at road crossings directing traffic while joggers (all women from what I could tell) were headed north up the trail. According to a historical society meeting about the building I attended and summarized on a plaque by the front door, the building was originally a grocery store on Main Street and moved to its present location in 2010. Bricks for the building came fr...