Seneca

[GSP Tiger]

I have been driving through Seneca a few more times recently. It is quite a nice city. Although Clemson is a few miles eastward, I think Seneca has some things to offer. Any thoughts on Seneca?

[jaxpalmer]

uhh, not much is there.

[gs3]

Is "Golden Corner" the official nickname for the area? I've never heard it before.

[GSP Tiger]

Golden Corner is Oconee County's nickname. It is the only county in South Carolina that touches the Georgia and North Carolina state lines.

[btoy]

the "Dark Corner" is an old nickname for the area north of Greer where Glassy is located. Greer's only police office to die in the line of duty died trying to catch a bootlegger up there many many years ago.

[Spartan]

Seneca is.... well, an interesting place to say the least. There is generally not much going on there. All of the activity is on 123 and the area towards Lake Keowee.

The downtown area is actually pretty neat. Ramcat Alley is a nice little strip of restaurants and such. Seneca seems to have missed out on the razing process that most of the larger cities went through in the 70s, so there is a fair amount of old architecture there. Again, Ramcat Alley is the best place to see this, but Main St and even 123 Business will give you a nice flavor of what is there.

You can get some dirt cheap houses in town that wuld be extremely nice if they were fixed up a little.

One of the problems I saw was that to get to downtown you have to go through what feels like a sketchy area, and most of the area between downtown and 123 is probably sketchy too.

Seneca has some problems to work out, but I don't see why it can't bulid off the relative success of Ramcat Alley to make the city a decent place to live. Its not a bad drive to Clemson from there either. 10 mins tops.

[GSP Tiger]

Driving into town via 130 from 123 seemed a little dark. I think additional lighting may help improve visibility.