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Jacksonboro Farmhouse
Pale light shines through sprawling, moss-draped tree limbs which tower over this vacant farmhouse near Jacksonboro in Colleton County. Rebeccah Connelly of Charleston, 2010 © Do Not Use Without...
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Williamston Barn
This classic Anderson County barnyard scene near Williamston was captured in 2006 by photographer Jerry Stafford of Seneca when he was searching for rural lifestyle images to promote a fund-raising...
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Abbeville Livery Stable
The Livery Stable is located on Trinity Street in historic downtown Abbeville. The original Livery Stable, built in the 1840s, was used to board horses until 1872, when it was destroyed by a...
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Gaston Livery Stable
The Gaston Livery Stable in Aiken was constructed in 1893 and is made entirely of locally-produced brick. Of the five brick barns remaining in South Carolina, it is believed to be the oldest. At two...
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Pageland Farm
Pageland is located in northwestern Chesterfield County, halfway between Chesterfield and Lancaster. A few families lived in the area as early as 1788, but the town itself was not formed until the...
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Denver Downs Farm
Denver Downs Farm is a South Carolina Century Farm, owned and operated by the Garrison family of Anderson County since 1869. Bill Fitzpatrick of Taylors © Do Not Use Without Written Consent The Denver...
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Chattooga Belle Farm
Chattooga Belle Farm is a 138-acre working farm in Long Creek, South Carolina, near Seneca and along the Chattooga River. Actor and comedian Groucho Marx was an owner of this orchard during the 1950s...
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Cottontop
Cottontop, an old family homestead located in Norway, South Carolina, was built in 1905 by Henry Boncil Dyches, the son of a Confederate veteran. The home remains in the family and is now connected...
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Chester
The historic farming community of Chester is still going strong. Scots-Irish settlers harvested cotton here in the early nineteenth century, and the Upstate has been a major textile producer ever...
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McLaurin Roper McColl Farmstead
This farmhouse in the Marolboro County community of Clio presents a diversity of architectural styles that reflects the generations that have farmed this land for nearly 200 years. The core of the home...
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Sans Souci Farm
Sans Souci was established before 1750 as a plantation in Sumter County, located on land originally deeded to brothers John, Edward, and Hugh Rutledge. John served as South Carolina’s first governor...
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Warren Farm
This boarded-up farmhouse in the rural Colleton County town of Williams was built by Colonel George Warren in 1842. The town initially was called Buck Head. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century it...
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Canola Field
Yellow blooms blaze against a midnight-blue sky in the canola fields of Marion County. The Pee Dee region of the state is the newest hotspot for growing canola, a seed developed from cross breeding...
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Cooks Farm
Three years before he died in 1960, Claude Cook planted peach trees on some land near Trenton. The project first bore the South Carolina state fruit the year of his death, and Cook’s oldest son,...
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Bowman
This house in rural Bowman stands as a symbol of resilience within South Carolina’s agricultural community. The small farming village, located southeast of Orangeburg, was established in 1887 when...
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Seashore Farmers’ Lodge
This newly-restored lodge in the Sol Legare community of James Island reflects the tight-knit community that has existed here since Emancipation. Following the Civil War, freed slaves moved to this...
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Duncan
This pastoral early-morning scene might lead people to think of Duncan as strictly a farming community, but the Spartanburg County town is rich in its history as a post-Civil War railroad town. Prior...
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Graniteville Farm Bell
The village of Graniteville was founded by industrialist William Gregg in 1846, who planned his model town based on similar New England villages he had toured in 1844. Graniteville, named for the local...
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Old Brick Warehouse
The Marion County town of Mullins is a farming community that boasts the largest tobacco market in the state. Since the late nineteenth century, tobacco farming has kept the community thriving, and for...
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L.W. Paul Farm
When people think of South Carolina’s Grand Strand, they likely summon visions of the Atlantic Ocean from atop the Skywheel at Myrtle Beach or shagging on Ocean Drive just up the road in North Myrtle...
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