The Center for a Better South
Retired editor Linda W. Brown of Kingstree, S.C., spied this leaning shed and rusty equipment in the countryside of Clarendon County near Davis Station. Both, she said, “speak to the condition of small farms in rural communities in 2013.” See another picture from the area.
Clarendon County, split in half by Interstate 95, had almost 21 percent of residents living in poverty, according to the 2010 Census.
Photo taken Oct. 20, 2013 by Linda W. Brown. All rights reserved.
Retired editor Linda W. Brown of Kingstree, S.C., snapped a photo of this old tobacco barn with a bushy roof along S.C. Highway 261 just outside Manning in Clarendon County. “It doesn’t show in the picture,” she writes, “but there is a fairly new fiberglass basketball goal right in front of the old tobacco barn. Changing times, changing lives.”
Clarendon County, split in half by Interstate 95, had almost 21 percent of residents living in poverty, according to the 2010 Census.
Photo taken Oct. 20, 2013 by Linda W. Brown. All rights reserved.
From what photographer and retired editor Linda W. Brown of Kingstree can tell, the area around Davis Station in rural Clarendon County used by be dairy country, “but the broken-down silos show that that is now a thing of the past.”
Clarendon County, split in half by Interstate 95, had almost 21 percent of residents living in poverty, according to the 2010 Census.
Photo taken October 2013 by Linda W. Brown. All rights reserved.
During the Great Depression, the Farm Security Administration hired documentary photographers like Marion Post Wolcott to take photographs of rural and small-town life across the country to highlight the effects of economic stagnation. The collection offers more than 164,000 black-and-white photos and 1,600 color photos taken from across the nation.
What’s interesting about this 1939 photo by Wolcott, described as “A Negro church in a corn field” near the South Carolina Crescent town of Manning in Clarendon County, is how it could have been taken just as easily today, 74 years later. According to the 2010 Census, almost 21 percent of Clarendon County residents live in poverty.