Florence City/County Pics

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10/22/2017 DONATELLO 0 COMMENTS   THE NUDE BRONZE OF DAVID PAVILION   TERRAZZA & BAR   TERRAZA & BAR: Dolce Vita, The Library & Smoking Pig BBQ, downtown Dargan Street     2017 MARKED THE 5TH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST TO BE HELD IN DOWNTOWN FIRENZA (FLORENCE, SC)   FESTIVAL  SHARE

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FLORENCE IS THE NIGHT

 

BLUE VELVET 0 COMMENTS   Downtown Florence feels like a cutting-edge David Lynch film developing into something unique with loads of quirky characters, most of them mysterious and some kind of dangerous.  They match the dozens of old red brick buildings and shiny new ones looming in the dark over wide shady plazas and alleyways on track to becoming the most exhilarating small city secret in Carolina.  Dr. R.N. Beck Statue                   The Library on Dargan Street

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CITY OF FLORENCE MOMENT OF A DAY

10/31/2017 WAKE UP EVERYBODY 0 COMMENTS   HEADPHONES Wake up, everybody No more sleepin' in bed No more backward thinkin' Time for thinkin' ahead The world has changed So very much From what it used to be       St. Anne Catholic Church, Kemper Street St. Anne chimes in a Pecan Tree      SHARE

Edited October 31, 2017 by charleslpearson

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J O H N S O N V I L L E

WELCOME SIGN

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Driving East on South Carolina Highway 41 at Johnsonville's "Welcome Sign" is 74.9 miles  (120.9 km) to Charleston on the coast.

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LAKE CITY, second largest city in Florence county

LAKE CITY COMMUNITY PARK

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After so many decades of being down in the dumps, Lake City, which has six times as many people as Johnsonville in Eastern Florence county and the second largest city in the county after Florence, is finally beginning to blossom again with new upscale residential and commercial growth thanks in part to hometown girl, Darla Moore, who struck it rich on Wall Street and has given back to her roots in helping to turn a dead downtown into an arts district.

The former Bean Capital of the world was also the birthplace of the late Ronald McNair, an African American physicist and NASA astronaut. He died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L in 1986.  Many plazas, buildings and a boulevard are named for McNair's memory in Lake City.

Lake City's economy is dominated by tobacco. It has its own two-day festival in September first established in 1898.  Lake City's tobacco market has grown to become one of the two largest in South Carolina.

On February 22, 1898, Lake City was the site of a notorious lynching that resulted in the mob murders of the city's first black postmaster Frazier B. Baker and his infant daughter Julia Baker.  They were burned alive in a house fire caused by the mob attack.  

Baker was appointed postmaster of Lake City in 1897, but local whites objected and undertook a campaign to force his removal. When these efforts failed to dislodge Baker a mob attacked his family while in the comfort of their home, killing him and his daughter in a tragic house fire. Baker's wife and five other children survived.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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11/2/2017 FLORENCE 0 COMMENTS   CAPITAL OF THE PEE DEE NATIVE AMERICANS                        SHARE

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Thanks for the pics and keeping the Florence thread going. Florence will always have a special place in my heart with so many family roots there and in the Pew Dee.

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On 11/5/2017 at 6:53 PM, distortedlogic said:

Thanks for the pics and keeping the Florence thread going. Florence will always have a special place in my heart with so many family roots there and in the Pew Dee.

Under-rated Florence is a cool town...I just wish it more bike friendly but it's getting there. I'll be returning to it soon and can't wait to leave the grim and congestion of lost of magic San Francisco has become to finish a project I'm working on in Florence. I've rented a studio there but haven't been in it in a month....Oh well, it waits...Cheers!

Edited November 7, 2017 by charleslpearson

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Charles L Pearson added 7 new photos.

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"Firenze" After Dark South Carolina Collection:
https://www.charleslpearson.net/florence-is-the-nig…/firenze

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11/10/2017 FIRENZE 0 COMMENTS   MOAD NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA              SHARE

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11/16/2017 FLOW-TOWN 0 COMMENTS                    SHARE   0 COMMENTS

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11/20/2017 DOWNTOWN NORTH DARGAN 0 COMMENTS   DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT    SHARE

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11/21/2017 BUCOLIC TOWN OF PAMPLICO 0 COMMENTS   PAMPLICO, SOUTH CAROLINA Located twenty miles south of Florence, the Town of Pamplico was incorporated December 1, 1916.  In its first election that same day of incorporation the town elected the following residents to govern:  Benton D. Dargan, Mayor; and Councilmen Jesse W. Finklea, C.W. Boyd, W.W. Coleman, Sr., V.A. Burnis, and M.A. Coleman.      It is believed that Pamplico Branch got its name from a tribe of Indians who once lived in this area since Indian artifacts have been found.  Many lots were sold in late 1910, mostly to residents of the area, and a railway from Effingham, SC to the fledgling Pamplico was completed.  On June 10, 1919, the Pee Dee Land and Development Company deeded the following streets to the Town of Pamplico:  First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Avenues; Coleman, Steel, and Munn Avenues; Palmetto, Hickory, Walnut, Pine, Elm and Trade Streets.  Also that certain portion of Trade Street designated on the plat as “Dargan Place” was deeded.  In late 1919 the assets of the Pee Dee Land and Development Company were sold to A.A. Munn. The first Pamplico business was the Pamplico Supply Company, built in 1912.  The store served the residents of the area with food, work clothing and most items needed in the home and on the farm.  It was a landmark on the corner or Fourth Avenue (Main Street) and Walnut Street for 57 years, closing its doors in 1969.  The first industry established in Pamplico was the Dargan Lumber Company, which has changed owners through the years and is now the Marsh Furniture Company.  It is the one industry, in the early history of Pamplico, that has survived and continues to support the economy of Pamplico.   The first drug store was Peoples Drug Store was established in 1914 by Dr. W.H. Poston and John Ely McGough.  Mr. McGough was Pamplico’s first postmaster, appointed July 13, 1914.  Dr. Poston maintained his office until his death in 1950.  In 1961, the Pamplico Post Office was relocated to its current location at the corner of Third Avenue and N. Trade Street. The first bank in Pamplico, the Farmers and Merchants Bank, was established in 1914, and on June 6, 1918, the Bank of Pamplico was organized.  The two banks were consolidated on January 20, 1931 and named Farmers Bank of Pamplico.  Sometime later the bank was liquidated.  In 1933 the Pamplico Cash Depository was organized, and in 1945 the Pamplico Bank and Trust Company was organized.  In 2008 Pamplico Bank and Trust Company was purchased by The Citizens Bank which is now serving this area. The Pamplico Hotel was constructed in 1916 by George J. Steele at the corner of Fourth Avenue and N. Trade Street.  It burned in 1927, and Pamplico has not had a hotel since then.

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JOHNSONVILLE/KINGSBURG

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Daily Motivator:  Florentines Embarking American Eagle @ Charlotte/Douglas International Airport ...for Home.

https://www.charleslpearson.net/the-daily-motivator/mediocre-vs-greatness

"..it’s nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world...On one side you have warmth and companionship and sweet understanding, and on the other⎯cold, lonely greatness. There you make your choice...”⎯John Steinbeck,East of Eden

 

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11/24/2017 ARTS & CULTURAL NUCLEUS 0 COMMENTS   OF FLORENCE & DARLINGTON COUNTIES Florence Museum of Art   Located in different locations across downtown play the piano  SHARE

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11/26/2017 DOWNTOWN 0 COMMENTS   Evans Street Florence-Darlington Tech Downtown Dargan Street: James Allen Plaza, Arts & Cultural District Florence City/County Planning Building, Irby Street The Forum, Fitness & Spa, Elm Street at Dargan Cedar Hospital Campus, Dargan Street East of Downtown: Martin Luther King Jr. Overpass Bridge between downtown and Medical District GENTRIFICATION:  TEARING DOWN ABANDONED FLORENCE Demolition 407: Railroad Avenue at E. Pine Street near The Forum    SHARE

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11/26/2017

NIGHT SCENE

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JAMES ALLEN PLAZA

 

 

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RAIL ROAD BRIDGE OVER LYNCHES RIVER 0 COMMENTS     There is no longer train service in and out of Johnsonville where freight trains still run daily along CSX-owned rails over Lynches River at Odell Venters Landing into the City of Johnsonville, the south eastern most city in Florence county and some 36 miles (58 km) from City of Florence, the county government seat.

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KINGSBURG - JOHNSONVILLE

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GENERATION XYZ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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12/9/2017 RENAISSANCE PARK 0 COMMENTS   DOWNTOWN      SHARE

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12/9/2017

THE WAY HE WALKED

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Use to brighter lights and action just walking up the street the way he walked with that devilish swish and securing dates he handled effortlessly in one given night unless it was just too many, here in this small, Southern city he cringed at the thought...

 

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Edited December 10, 2017 by charleslpearson

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12/13/2017

EAST SIDE

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EAST FLORENCE:  MEDICAL DISTRICT
IN BROWN & GREEN WINTER

 

 

 

 

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12/14/2017

DOCTORS BRUCE AND LEE FOUNDATION

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FLORENCE COUNTY LIBRARY CENTRAL 

 

 

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Edited December 14, 2017 by charleslpearson

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FIRENZE AFTER DARK 0 COMMENTS   Timrod Creek Old Timrod School Timrod Creek & Park Downtown N. Dargan Street Downtown  SHARE