#yemassee

[pamwmsn]

📷: pamwmsn.tumblr.com Old Sheldon Church Ruins Yemassee SC

[country-born-raised]

Carolina Cider Company

[electronicsquid]

W. Somerset Maugham playing solitaire with dog

(Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1942?)

[farewell-to-lorien]

Road signs in Yemassee, South Carolina.

[rolloroberson]

Old Sheldon Church Ruins surrounded by live oaks and Spanish moss in the heart of the South Carolina Lowcountry.

[archiveofaffinities]

Frank Lloyd Wright, C. Leigh Stevens House, Bedroom, Auldbrass, Yemassee, South Carolina, 1939-1940

[lifeinpoetry]

All the people  I have scalded, calling out for me. Through  mouthfuls of mist, I quietly name them in return.

— Logan February, from “Fire Domestic,” published in Yemassee

[pamwmsn]

📷: pamwmsn.tumblr.com Historically speaking, the “Frampton House” property was part of an original King’s Grant to the Frampton family in the 1700s. The family oversaw the production of 4,000 acres, which were used for growing cotton, rice, and other crops. During the 1865 Campaign of the Carolinas, General Sherman’s troops burned the plantation house and all the farm buildings that stood on this site. As a delegate of the 1860 SC Convention John Frampton signed the Ordinance of Succession, pulling the state out of the Union.  In 1868, just after the war, he built the current farmhouse on the property and continued to work the land.