South Carolina Backroads
On our way to and from Charleston we bypassed Columbia and its interstates and took a backroads shortcut, driving along a slow two-lane road that had started out as a Native American trail. Towns had...
View ArticleA Ghost Resort at Cascade Springs
“Cascade Springs are situated six and one-half miles from the heart of Atlanta, on Cascade Road. Here nature has established one of the most attractive resorts in Georgia. Beautiful Cascades blend...
View ArticleThe Battle of Thompson’s Station
Abraham Lincoln, American historical figure of the moment, made an appearance at the event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Thompson’s Station, but he wasn’t the star of the show....
View ArticlePonder House
The twin monuments in Ponder Cemetery are almost startling to come across when you’re driving along Fairplay Rd. in Morgan County, Georgia. From a distance they look like they don’t belong: tall gothic...
View ArticleSouthport, North Carolina
Even on warm, sunny days, Southport is quieter than other coastal towns we’ve been to in the southeast. There are tourists at the seafood restaurants and in the shops downtown, but it isn’t hard to...
View ArticleCasulon Plantation
Charred and crumbling and obscured by trees, the shell of Casulon Plantation looks as if it’s been falling down for the last one hundred years. When I first saw photos of it I figured that the old...
View ArticleBonaventure Cemetery
When John Muir camped out in Bonaventure Cemetery in 1867 the spanish moss-shaded grounds were already heavy with history. Muir wrote of the ruins of the plantation house that had once been there, of...
View ArticleThe Old Mill Town of Rex, GA
If you just saw it in photographs you’d think that the tiny town of Rex, Georgia would be located in the most rural part of the state. Maybe somewhere down in south Georgia, or among the the cotton...
View ArticleFort Pulaski
In 2012 a straight-to-video zombie movie was filmed at Georgia’s Fort Pulaski, and for a few days the grounds were full of local extras in costume, wandering around with dead eyes and outstretched...
View ArticleThe Ghost Town of Auraria, GA
Out West, gold rush ghost towns become tourist attractions. The old settlement of Bodie, California has become a state park, its buildings preserved “in a state of arrested decay.” Visitors to the tiny...
View ArticleDetour: Ulysses S. Grant Home
This blog may be called The Southerly, but from the moment we started it I knew we’d be posting about a few of the places we travel to outside the South. And from the start I knew I had to post about...
View ArticleA South Carolina Museum Trapped in Time
The Story of Thornwell Orphanage, a short history written in 1924, portrays the the children’s home in “the beautiful little town of Clinton,” South Carolina as a peaceful spot, with attractive granite...
View ArticleThe Stone Park of E.T. Wickham
There aren’t any guideposts at E.T. Wickham’s sculpture park. No historical markers or signs to tell the story behind the broken-down concrete sculptures that line a couple of rural roads just outside...
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