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Rusting cabin, Allendale County, S.C.

Rusting, vernacular cabin just east of Sycamore, S.C., on Confederate Highway.
Rusting, vernacular cabin just east of Sycamore, S.C., on Confederate Highway.

This old, rusting vernacular house east of Sycamore, S.C., is in the middle of the six-county impoverished area that the Center for a Better South has worked with area and state leaders to apply for a federal Promise Zone designation.  Read about our work here.

While the farmhouse seems to be unoccupied, but may be used as a hunting cabin, it’s easy to see good workmanship in the framing.  Structures like this dot the countryside throughout the Southern Crescent, a reminder of tenant farming of days gone by.

Sycamore, a village to the west of about 180 people, 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.

Photo by Andy Brack, Center for a Better South, Oct. 1, 2014.  All rights reserved.

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Tiny post office, Sycamore, S.C.

One-room post office, Sycamore, S.C.
One-room post office, Sycamore, S.C.

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.

Photo by Andy Brack, Center for a Better South, Oct. 1, 2014.  All rights reserved.

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Spider lilies, Sycamore, S.C.

Spider lilies bloom across from Kerr-McGee Farm Center on Main Street in Sycamore, S.C.
Spider lilies bloom across from Kerr-McGee Farm Center on Main Street in Sycamore, S.C.

These vibrant spider lilies were in bloom near a sidewalk on the grounds of town hall in tiny Sycamore, S.C., in Allendale County when we passed by in early October.  A week later, the grass had been cut and the lilies were gone.

Sycamore, a village of about 180 people, 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.

Photo by Andy Brack, Center for a Better South, Oct. 1, 2014.  All rights reserved.