Prospect Grocery on S.C. Highway 341 near Johnsonville, S.C., rests in Sunday-afternoon quiet, but is busy during the week.
The Prospect community is famous for “The Neck” Christmas Parade and is infamous as the spot where Pee Wee Gaskins buried a number of his murder victims, according to photographer and retired editor Linda W. Brown of Kingstree, S.C.
Johnsonville, population about 1,400, is in the southeastern tip of Florence County, which had 137,948 people, according to a 2012 Census estimate. Its poverty rate — higher in the rural areas than the county seat of Florence, averaged 19.4 percent in 2010.
- QuickFacts about Florence County
Copyrighted photo taken in August 2014 by Linda W. Brown. All rights reserved.