Greenwood, South Carolina

Greenwood, South Carolina

Greenwood is a pretty good size town,
has the essentials like Wal-Mart and Cracker Barrel and Lowe's.

Did you know that Greenwood has the
'widest main street in the world'?
The perfect place for the
South Carolina Festival of Flowers.


Greenwood is also the home of FujiFilm's
North American headquarters:

The 500 acre complex boasts four state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities for the production of QuickSnap recyclable cameras, color photographic paper, and digital printing plates for the Graphic Arts industry. Fujifilm South Carolina is also home of the Greenwood Research Laboratories and Fujifilm's largest distribution center in the world.

And don't forget the Park Seed Company
has their main facility and gardens here:

Park Seed obtained 500 acres on the northern edge of Greenwood, and designed and built there a total business complex to house the company’s offices, research facilities, seed storage and processing areas, temperature-controlled areas for storing plants and bulbs, computer facilities, mailorder department, and customer service facility, plus its catalog preparation area and a showroom and reception area for its rapidly growing wholesale division.

Just up the road a piece in nearby Laurens, South Carolina is the
Michelin Lauren Proving Grounds:

Consisting of over a dozen special tracks and surfaces for tire and suspension system testing, driver training, and event management, all situated on over 3300 acres. Our commitment to mobility safety is evident in our involvement through instruction of First Responder groups nationwide, teaching them a variety of handling and avoidance techniques.

Lake Greenwood

It is almost time to move on, we have enjoyed our time here in South Carolina, especially the little campground we found in Cross Hill. The owners, Alan and Marie Titus are really nice folks! So if you are in the area, stop by the All Seasons Family Campground, tell them we sent you!


Greenwood, South Carolina
been there, done that...

on safari

South Carolina Festival of Flowers
Safari Topiary
Greenwood, South Carolina

horse

mama and baby elephant

Clemson tiger

FugiFilm camera and pandas

T-rex dinosaur

lion

gamecock

photo album HERE

Park Seed Company - since 1868

Park Seed Catalog, a staple wishbook for gardeners over the years, there just might be one in your mailbox!

Now you can also peruse the online catalog HERE and anything you order will be shipped from right here in Greenwood, South Carolina!




~photos 6 May 2011, Park Seed Company, Greenwood, SC - playing tourist in rural South Carolina

Cokesbury College

Built in 1854, home of the Masonic Female College of South Carolina, under supervison of the Freemasons, Bascomb Lodge No. 80. The school was unusual for its time in providing an education for young women.



The three-story Greek Revival style building has a bell tower and four square columns that extend from the ground level to the pediment. The first floor contained four student recitation rooms and four music rooms, there was a chapel on the second floor, and the third floor housed a Masonic Lodge headquarters.

Mt. Ariel Church

Thoroughly Methodist, the village was first called Mount Ariel. The name was changed to Cokesbury in 1834 to honor Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury, first two Methodist bishops in the United States. The school building and adjacent village of Old Cokesbury were listed together on the National Register on August 25, 1970.

Restoration plans for the school building and lots more information and pictures on historic Cokesbury HERE


~photos 6 May 2011 - playing tourist in rural South Carolina

they're back

Do you hear it? The constant whirring sounds like the mother ship is hovering overhead, just out of sight. Cicadas.

Before today, I had yet to see one, so that made the sound that much more eerie.


I went in search of, camera in hand, and was pulled toward the forest by the deafening sound.


These empty pods are hanging from the trees, shed after 13 years underground.


Apparently they have only one purpose - no they do not eat all the vegetation in site like the locusts, they do not bite or sting.


They are lovers, not fighters. Their only purpose is to mate (kind of like prom night?), or to use granddaughter Sarah's word - they are procreating!

They sound like this, click HERE


~photos taken 3 May 2011 in Cross Hill, South Carolina at our present home away from home, All Seasons Family Campground

Cross Hill, South Carolina

A once-booming little town in high cotton until the arrival of the boll weevil and the depression, now Cross Hill, South Carolina is nice and quiet, filled with lots of old houses...


lots of porches

and columns

and azaleas



some kept up

and some run down

The cemetery (circa 1797) hosts confederate war veterans alongside more modern guests.

walking tour of Greenville SC

Liberty Bridge

Falls Park on the Reedy River

Reedy River runs through downtown

art along Main Street

tree-lined Main Street

azaleas and dogwoods


photo album HERE