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Town hall, Salters, S.C.

"Town hall," Salters, S.C.
“Town hall,” Salters, S.C.

Although never incorporated, Salters, S.C., has a town hall,” writes Kingstree, S.C., photographer Linda W. Brown. “Built around 1900 as a project of The Salters Social Club, it hosted community and club meetings and was a venue for school commencements, community plays, dances and suppers.

The social club members bought stock at $10 a share to raise money for its construction. The stock purchases raised $1,000 to build the structure in Williamsburg County, she said.

Copyrighted photo taken by Linda W. Brown. All rights reserved.

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Old school, Salters, S.C.

Old school, Salters, S.C.
Old school, Salters, S.C.

Built in 1924, the Salters Brick School in Williamsburg County, S.C., served grades 1-11 when it opened in 1925 with 100 students, photographer Linda W. Brown of Kingstree writes.  “After it was consolidated with a larger school, the building was used from the late 1970s to the early 1990s as the hub for Black River Glads, a wholesale gladiolas farming and sales operation. The building is currently for sale.”

Copyrighted photo by Linda W. Brown.  All rights reserved.

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Ferrell Store, Salters, S.C.

Old Ferrell Store, Salters, S.C.
Old Ferrell Store, Salters, S.C.

Country stores like this one in the Salters community of Williamsburg County, S.C., are a dying breed.

Kingstree photographer Linda W. Brown writes that J.A. Ferrell opened a store in his Salters home in 1880.

“Some years later, he built this building on the edge of his property and moved the store operations there. He continued to run the store until his death in 1918. Three other merchants have operated a general store on the premises. The last, Frank Moseley, closed the store in 1990.”

Photo by Linda W. Brown.  All rights reserved.

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Old gin, Salters, S.C.

Old cotton gin, Salters, S.C.

Old cotton gin, Salters, S.C.

Here’s another old South Carolina cotton gin, this one in the rural community of Salters in Williamsburg County.

Retired editor Linda W. Brown, who took the photo, notes that the Salters gin not only provided employment for the adults of the community, but it also was a source of recreation for the young people.  One woman who grew up there remembers “jumping cotton bales which were stacked at the gin ‘for recreation.’ She believes the gin closed somewhere around 1970. She says that during the time of year the gin was in operation, the three stores in ‘town’ stayed open late into the night.”

Residents, who often refer to themselves as “Saltines,” love their community and many fight hard to keep out landfills or growth of a current one, Brown writes.

“Visiting Salters for me is like stepping back in time to an era when people spent the afternoons sitting on their front porches watching the trains go by,” Brown writes.

Williamsburg County, located in the middle of the Southern Crescent, is about 75 miles north of Charleston, S.C.  Just under 34,000 people live in the county, which is about the number who lived there in 1900, according to Census figures.  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.

Copyrighted photo by Linda W. Brown, courtesy of the photographer.  All rights reserved.

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Old gin, Salters, S.C.

Old cotton gin, Salters, S.C.
Old cotton gin, Salters, S.C.

The cotton gin in Salters not only provided employment for adults in the rural Williamsburg County community, but it was a source of recreation for young people, former editor Linda W. Brown writes.

“Beth Moseley Tisdale grew up in Salters, and she remembers jumping cotton bales which were stacked at the gin ‘for recreation.’ She believes the gin closed somewhere around 1970. She says that during the time of year the gin was in operation, the three stores in ‘town’ stayed open late into the night.”

Residents, who often refer to themselves as “Saltines,” love their community and many fight hard to keep out landfills or growth of a current one, Brown says.

“Visiting Salters for me is like stepping back in time to an era when people spent the afternoons sitting on their front porches watching the trains go by,” she writes.

Williamsburg County, located in the middle of the Southern Crescent, is about 75 miles north of Charleston, S.C.  Just under 34,000 people live in the county, which is about the number who lived there in 1900, according to Census figures.  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.

Copyrighted photo by Linda W. Brown, courtesy of the photographer.  All rights reserved.

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Old depot, Salters, S.C.

Old depot, Salters, S.C.
Old depot, Salters, S.C.

This old railroad depot in the unincorporated community of Salters, S.C., looks almost exactly like a depot we featured in June that’s in Leary, Ga.

Former editor Linda W. Brown tells us that the old depot was built in the 1850s when the railroad came to town and served the community for about 100 years.  “The community was actually known as Salters Depot for many years,” she writes.  “Charlie Walker never called it anything else although he pronounced the last syllable as if it were a cooking utensil. Salters has always been an agricultural community and the depot primarily handled ag products.”

Residents, who often refer to themselves as “Saltines,” love their community and many fight hard to keep out landfills or growth of a current one, Brown writes.

“Visiting Salters for me is like stepping back in time to an era when people spent the afternoons sitting on their front porches watching the trains go by,” she writes.

Williamsburg County, located in the middle of the Southern Crescent, is about 75 miles north of Charleston, S.C.  Just under 34,000 people live in the county, which is about the number who lived there in 1900, according to Census figures.  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.

Copyrighted photo by Linda W. Brown, courtesy of the photographer.  All rights reserved.

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Old store, Salters, S.C.

Moseley store, Salters, S.C. Photo by Linda W. Brown.
Moseley store, Salters, S.C. Photo by Linda W. Brown.

Salters is an unincorporated small community in southwestern Williamsburg County, South Carolina.  Former editor Linda W. Brown writes that the residents, who like to call themselves “Saltines,” love their community and many fight hard to keep out landfills or growth of a current one.

“Visiting Salters for me is like stepping back in time to an era when people spent the afternoons sitting on their front porches watching the trains go by,” she writes.

Years back, you could easily watch trains go by from the front of this store pictured above.  It’s the old C.E. Moseley Store and remains in the Moseley family.  “I’m not sure when it was built, but it was open until 1943 when the Moseleys moved across the railroad tracks to a larger building,” which operated until the late 1980s.

Williamsburg County, located in the middle of the Southern Crescent, is about 75 miles north of Charleston, S.C.  Just under 34,000 people live in the county, which is about the number who lived there in 1900, according to Census figures.  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.

Copyrighted photo by Linda W. Brown, courtesy of the photographer.  All rights reserved.