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McGill's Store
Bethany, SC
Photos and info courtesy Richard Weiss

This little time capsule is located in Bethany, SC which is just South of Kings Mountain. It could be said that this is the town of Bethany, as other than a few homes there was nothing else in town. McGill's Store really was a general store in the truest sense of the word, just like in the days of old. Aside from gas, you could get groceries, hardware, boots and of course junk food. I opted for the later and purchased a bottle of Sun Drop. There was a newspaper article on the wall about the place, the clerk told me it was from about a year ago. Clearly this place has not changed in decades. 02-08

High Shoals Bridge
High Shoals, NC
Photos and info courtesy Richard Weiss

Here is the High Shoals Bridge in High Shoals, NC. The bridge was not in use, bypassed, replaced by the typical boring slab. But for some reason, the bridge was not demolished. It appeared to have been abandoned for quite some time. 02-08

(Far left) A shot of the High Shoals Bridge

Cotton Warehouse
Rock Hill, SC
Photo courtesy Richard Weiss

Check out this old cotton exchange located in Rock Hill, SC. 02-08

Bemberg
Elizabethton, TN
Photo and info courtesy Richard Weiss

The old lettered smokestack Bemberg is for a company that made belts for bias ply tires. A local was telling me the factory has been abandoned for about 40 years  which was about the time bias ply's gave way to radials. 02-08

CSX Locomotive
Erwin, TN
Photo and info courtesy Richard Weiss

Here's a CSX locomotive found in a huge rail yard in Erwin, TN. 02-08

Olympia Cotton Mill
Columbia, SC
Photos and info courtesy Richard Weiss

The twin towers of what turned out to be the Olympia Cotton Mill is located in Columbia, SC. Atone time the largest in the south, what made this mill unique is not that the towers were more decorative than one usually finds on a textile mill, but that the complex still contained its original powerhouse.

While the oldest part of the complex had already been converted into lofts, this part was in the process of conversion. 02-08

Olympia Cotton Mill
Columbia, SC
Photo courtesy Richard Weiss

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