Sycamore, a South Carolina village in Allendale County of about 180 people,has a tiny, one-room post office on Main Street just off the main highway. It’s open from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on weekdays and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. According to a 2011 story, this post office and 27 others across South Carolina were scheduled for closure.
Sycamore is about 60 percent white with a 35 percent black community of residents. Unlike the whole of Allendale County with its almost 40 percent poverty rate, poverty is comparatively low at 10 percent in Sycamore.
- More about Allendale County from QuickFacts from the U.S. Census.
- More about Sycamore.
Photo by Andy Brack, Center for a Better South, Oct. 1, 2014. All rights reserved.