Florence City/County Pics

[Charles Pearson]

3/8/2018 ISAIAH 41:10   "So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." LUCAS PARK, FLORENCE, SC    SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

3/11/2018 THE DISPENSARY ROOFTOP BAR   VIA MOBILE   DOWNTOWN     OVERLOOKING FLORENCE, SC   Wonderful setting, great place.  Good luck to Freshman bartender Dion (nice Martini!) and the girl with Southern accent and plaited ponytail bartenderfrom Winthrop/Rock Hill/Charlotte...on their first night as Dispensary Rooftop bartenders.  SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

Red Doe Plantation, Old River Road

 

Red Doe Plantation mansion built 1846 for Evander F. Gregg (1818-1874), a South Carolina planter in what was then the Marion District and now Florence County. Red Doe Old Slave Quarter in back of the Mansion.

Red Doe's high masonry basement and porch form were indigenous to northeastern South Carolina making it a fine example of a raised Carolina cottage. Fireplace and walls of an Old Slave Quarter or kitchen where slaves worked.

Red Doe house and slave quarter

[vicupstate]

I wish someone could find a use for that house. It got a new roof and paint job not that long ago, yet it is looking bad again. 

FMU was offered ownership once and declined. It seems like it could be an event venue or an additional 'cottage' for the University's visitors.   

 

[Charles Pearson]

So do I.  It would be a shame if it is demolished...

[Charles Pearson]

3/18/2018 OLD RIVER ROAD   Florence City Limits to Kingsburg/US. Hwy 378-Myrtle Beach Hwy Distance 28 Miles via Old River Road            SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

3/28/2018 AZALEAS IN SPRING First week of Spring Florence, SC "Now, there are the flowers of you."

[Charles Pearson]

4/6/2018 HIPNOTIZAR        SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

4/9/2018 SAIL ON 0 COMMENTS   "And I don't mind about the Things you're gonna say, Lord..." -Lionel Ritchie (The Commodores)   THE PAVILION Timrod Park near South Park Ave. In the fresh new greens of Spring a homeless mans builds a hammock between the trees on top of Timrod Park at Warren Drive. Florence Beauty Trail, Former Florence Museum now a Private Residence at Timrod Park and Spruce Street A hilly section of Florence southwest of Timrod Park at Spruce Street and Graham "Spring-time greening of Timrod Park" in late afternoon.  SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

4/10/2018 THESE DREAMS   "The sweetest song is silence..." -Heart   South Park Avenue at Youpon Street "In a wood full of princes Freedom is a kiss But the prince hides his face From dreams in the mist..." -Heart Timrod Park at South Park Avenue above Timrod creek and Sandra Street S. Park at Youpon/Spruce Street W. Spruce at W. Graham/Timrod Park Drive W. Spruce Street at W. Graham Street  SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

4/13/2018 SUMMONINGS 0 COMMENTS   by Tanya Hyde In the woods out there, Way out there In the place where you won’t go, That’s where you’ll find her Dancing in a heated frenzy Sweating a sweet scent;   She strips down As steam rises up off her body; She raises her hands to the red moon And she calls out his name, Beckoning again and again Until finally he comes       And stands before her, Tall and mighty The face of the beast; His eyes are sharp and narrow, red; He has the horns of a ram, Curving backwards from his head; He steps out of the myst To fulfill her rapture Her final capture.    SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

4/14/2018

SIGNPOST UP AHEAD

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"O public road . . . You express me better than I can express myself.”⎯Walt Whitman.

 

South Coit Street at Timrod Park/Cherokee Road

[Charles Pearson]

4/15/2018 FLORENTINE 29501 0 COMMENTS       TIMROD PARK   29501:  Population:  43,220      SHARE   0 COMMENTS       LEAVE A REPLY.

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Edited April 16, 2018 by Charles Pearson

[Charles Pearson]

4/15/2018 SOUTHSIDE RATTLESNAKE IN THE CREEK 0 COMMENTS     Jeffries Creek, South Irby Street bridge a blurry unfocused image (couldn't get the camera right) of a beautiful brown rattlesnake with dark markings like diamonds swimming in the black water creek toward a dry island. Southside's Greenland Street at Jeffries Lane   On Greenland Street near Southside Church  a black cat (I named Etta since she reminded me of Etta a cat I used to have in San Francisco who had a brother cat named Jake)wants to chat and be petted.     Southside Baptist Church   Southside houses on Carolyn St at S. Irby at the ALDI grocery store that all look the same like a Melvina Reynolds song, "Little Boxes.'' Southside German grocery store ALDI Bowling alley and Southgate Lounge/bar Julia Cinemas early morning before opening, South Irby Street above Jeffries Creek  SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

4/16/2018 SOULE' CAFE SKATEBOARDER          SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

4/17/2018 DOWNTOWN NORTH CENTRAL   N. Irby Street (Bob) Griffin Motors Oldsmobile sponsoring of Buck Baker's entry in the 1950 Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway marked the first appearance of sponsorship in a NASCAR event. Griffin Motors, N. Irby Street Tracks Cafe, HopeHealth Medical Plaza, N. Irby Street Hope Health, N. Irby Street Florence County Judicial Center N. Dargan Street   Thomas Art Gallery, N. Dargan Rainwater Building, circa 1921. Kress Corner Mix-Use Redevelopment Part of Kress Corner Redevelopment and entrance to the Dispensary Rooftop Bar. Redevelopment Rainwater Building, N. Dargan near W. Evans  SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

4/18/2018 AS THE SUN SETS   DOWNTOWN DARLINGTON STREET DOWNTOWN FLORENCE COUNTY JUDICIAL CENTER & COUNTY COMPLEX, N. Irby St OLD POST OFFICE, W. Evans Street Dome of CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH & EMERSON APARTMENTS, E. Palmetto Street at S. Irby Street Florence "Firenze" Work-Home, Main Room, Coit Street at Timrod Park  SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

4/21/2018 FLORENCE: LOVE COMES QUICKLY 0 COMMENTS    A quiet fascination of a small rural city named Florence   SOUTH COIT STREET South Coit Street sidewalk and grass West McLeod Street at South Coit Street West Poplar Street at South Coit Street Timrod Park at Timrod Park Avenue and South Coit Street  SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

5/5/2018 DOWNTOWN MAY COLORS ARE DISTANT AND A THORNLESS BLACKBERRY TREE 0 COMMENTS   DOWNTOWN CENTRAL IN BEIGE, RED BRICK & GREEN Downtown Dargan Street and Florence County Complex and Judicial Center   A THORNLESS BLACKBERRY TREE GROWS BY MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BRIDGE   Bridge and Blackberry Thornless Tree DOWNTOWN EAST MEDICAL DISTRICT MCLEOD MEDICAL CENTER FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BRIDGE CSX FREIGHT TRAIN YARD MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BRIDGE INTO S. CHURCH STREET    SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

5/8/2018 MAY 08TH, 2018 0 COMMENTS   SOUTH IRBY STREET        SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

5/15/2018 NORTH FLORENCE 0 COMMENTS   North Florence's predominately African-American residential neighborhood lies just northeast of North Dargan Street's historic African-American 200-300 business district in downtown Florence.  This blue cottage pictured here would make a perfect writer's cottage.

[Charles Pearson]

5/27/2018 TIMROD PARK HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD                              SHARE

[Charles Pearson]

5/28/2018 FLORENTINE CHARM TIMROD PARK HISTORIC DISTRICT Timrod Park at Spruce St S. Park at Youpon S. Park at S. Waters Street S. Park Avenue between S. Waters and Cherokee Road CHEROKEE ROAD NEIGHBORHOOD First Presbyterian Church, S. Park at Cherokee Road Cherokee Road at S. Park Cherokee Road Cherokee Road Cherokee Road Cherokee Road front of Waters Street Residence Waters Street Estate back fence of Cherokee Road House Waters Street above Timrod Park Waters Street Waters Street Estate Backyard Fence and Gate....front of Main House on Cherokee Road Waters Street above Timrod Park Timrod Park at Waters Street Timrod Park below Waters Street at S. Park Waters Street

[Charles Pearson]

5/29/2018

TIMROD CREEK WHEN IT RAINS

 

Timrod Park, Florence, SC

 

 

...today I was ebullient and happy in the rain watching white water rushing down Timrod creek...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited May 29, 2018 by Charles Pearson

[Charles Pearson]

5/30/2018

OLD CHEROKEE ROAD FROM S. PARK AVE TO MOHAWK DRIVE

 

OLD CHEROKEE NEIGHBORHOOD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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