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    American Auto Trails-South Carolina's U.S. Highways 25 and 178
    American Auto Trails-South Carolina's U.S. Highways 25 and 178
    American Auto Trails-South Carolina's U.S. Highways 25 and 178
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    American Auto Trails-South Carolina's U.S. Highways 25 and 178

    By Lyn Wilkerson

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    This edition in the American Auto Trails series explores U.S. Highways 25 and 178 through the western side of South Carolina, from the Cherokee Foothills along the North Carolina Line to the Low Country along the Savannah River. Driving Maps as well as GPS Coordinates for all listed Historic Sites are included.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLyn Wilkerson
    Release dateMay 8, 2010
    ISBN9781452335155
    American Auto Trails-South Carolina's U.S. Highways 25 and 178
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    Lyn Wilkerson

    Caddo Publications USA was created in 2000 to encourage the exploration of America’s history by the typical automotive traveler. The intent of Caddo Publications USA is to provide support to both national and local historical organizations as historical guides are developed in various digital and traditional print formats. Using the American Guide series of the 1930’s and 40’s as our inspiration, we began to develop historical travel guides for the U.S. in the 1990’s.

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      American Auto Trails-South Carolina's U.S. Highways 25 and 178 - Lyn Wilkerson

      Introduction

      This guide, along with the various others produced by Lyn Wilkerson and Caddo Publications USA, are based on the American Guide Series. Until the mid-1950’s, the U.S. Highway System provided the means for various modes of transport to explore this diverse land. To encourage such explorations, the Works Projects Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Federal Writers Project created the American Guide Series. This series of books were commissioned by the Federal Government to capture the culture and history of the United States and provide the direction necessary for travelers to explore it. Each state created a commission of writers who canvassed their respective territories for content to submit. The preliminary works were then sent to Washington D.C. for final assembly in to a standard format. The result was a travel guide for each state. The series spread to include guides for important cities as well. After the State Guides were complete, the concept of a national guide was developed. However, it would not be until 1949, with the backing of Hastings House Publishing, that a true national guide would be created. Through several rounds of condensing, the final product maintained much of the most essential points of interest and the most colorful material.

      To quote from the California edition of the American Guide Series, romance has been kept in its place. . . The intent of this guide is to provide information about the historic sites, towns, and landmarks along the chosen routes, and to provide background information and stories for what lies in-between. It is not our desire to dramatize the history or expand on it in any way. We believe that the character and culture of this state, and our country as a whole, can speak for itself. The guide has been created, not for just travelers new to the city, but for current residents who may not realize what lies just around the corner in their own neighborhood. The goal of Caddo Publications USA is to encourage the exploration of the rich history that many of us drive by on a regular basis without any sense it existed, and to entertain and educate so that history will not be lost in the future.

      U.S. Highway 25

      U.S. Highway 25 unwinds in a blue haze from the Blue Ridge Mountains and cuts diagonally, north to south, across the Piedmont to the Savannah River. Part of the roadbed coincides with the State Road begun under the supervision of Joel R. Poinsett in 1818-1820. It was called the Buncombe or Augusta Road in its upper stretches. Later, U.S. Highway 25 would become the eastern branch of the Dixie Highway, which runs from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan to Miami, Florida.

      North Carolina State Line

      Lima (7 miles south of the North Carolina State Line on U.S. 25)

      Side Trip to Glassy Mountain (South Carolina Highway 11 East, County Road 912 East, Callahan Mountain Road North, Glassy Mountain Road East)

      Glassy Mountain (3.5 miles east on SC 11, 1.6 miles east on CR 912, 0.4 mile north on Callahan Mountain Road, 3.4 miles east on Glassy Mountain Road)

      Glassy Mountain is named for its sheer rock face, which rises 1,000 feet from its base to its summit. Columbus Hale, traveling in his carriage from Charleston to these mountains in 1805, described his impressions: ‘The sun just rising gilded the world . . . and the reflection on the Glassy Mountain was beyond any description. . .’ The mountains stands in an area known as the Dark Corner due to its isolation and the primitive ways of its inhabitants. As late as 1936, 22 pupils of Glassy Rock Mountain grammar school saw their first motion picture, radio, and barber ship when they took a trip to Travelers Rest. During the First World War, soldiers from Camp Wadsworth used the cliff as a backstop for their firing range.

      Junction with South Carolina Highway 414 (3.7 miles south of Lima on U.S. 25)

      Side Trip to Tigerville and Campbell’s Covered Bridge (South Carolina Highway 414 East)

      Tigerville (4 miles east on SC 414)

      Tigerville got its name from early settlers who settled here shortly after the Revolution. They called bobcats they saw here tygers, and named the nearby Tyger River. The Head of Tyger Baptist Church, later Tyger Baptist Church, was founded about 1800. A community grew up here centered at the intersection of the State Road, built in 1820, and the Tugaloo Path, an Indian trail. The first post office here opened in Lemuel Jennings’ general store in 1881, with Jennings as postmaster. Tigerville, described as charming and romantic in 1883, boasted several large houses, a cotton gin, a blacksmith shop, and an academy. Jennings’ store, later operated as Wood General Store for almost 90 years, still stands nearby, as does J.H. Roe & Company, built in 1904.

      Campbell’s Covered Bridge (11.2 miles east on SC 414, 0.2 mile south on Pleasant Hill Road)

      This bridge, built in 1909, is the last extant covered bridge in South Carolina. Built by Charles Irwin Willis (1878-1966), it was named for Alexander Lafayette Campbell (1836-1920), who owned and operated a grist mill here for many years. Measuring 35 feet long and 12 feet wide, it is an excellent example of a four-span Howe truss, featuring diagonal timbers and vertical iron rods.

      Junction with Poinsett Highway (5.1 miles south of SC 414 on U.S. 25)

      Side Trip to Travelers Rest (Poinsett Highway West)

      Travelers Rest (1 mile west on Poinsett Highway)

      This little hamlet was catapulted into prominence in 1938 after the publication of Ben Robertson’s Travelers Rest. The scene is laid in the region, though the name does not specifically apply to this village. Published by the author, it sold poorly until South Carolina patriotic societies advertised it by attacking it, asserting the account to be libelous of a heroic age.

      ‘Bloody Bill’ Bates, a troublesome Tory, harassed this section during

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