You never know where you’ll run into a menagerie, photographer Linda W. Brown of Kingstree, S.C. writes. She found these stone lions, elephants and giraffes in her hometown in November.
Kingstree is the county seat for Williamsburg County, which is about 75 miles north of Charleston, S.C. Just under 34,000 people live in the county. Population peaked in 1950 at 43,807, but has dropped slowly since then.
About two-thirds of county residents are black, with almost all of those remaining being white. Only 2 percent of those in the county are of Hispanic descent. Some 32.8 percent of residents live in poverty, according to the Census. Of the county’s 1,921 firms, 36.5 percent are black-owned — a percentage that is three times South Carolina’s average.
- Photo is copyrighted 2014 by Linda W. Brown. All rights reserved.