The road heads south, almost dead straight, for 16mi from the "main"
road. Once you cross a railroad track along the main road, you are in
the woods, with a tree canopy over the road for maybe 10mi or so. A few
houses along the road, coupla small black churches (saw the preacher
arrive at one, on the way back only 2 cars there) but every mile or two
will be a large brick pillared gate of some sort with a discrete sign,
this plantation, that plantation, etc. and a road leading back down into
the woods. One of them had a large gate house, maybe 2000ft2, then the
road goes on back. Some have no signs but the pillars and gates.
Along about mile 10 is a large bridge over a tributary of the Ashepoo
river, and along in there are what appeared to be old rice fields, some
had water in them (state law prohibits messing with the flood gates that
let water in and out so as to provide habitat for the waterfowl, etc.).
On past there a few miles the houses start to appear, toward the end of
the road which ended at the river. Some sorta ratty houses on pilings,
a coupla shrimpers at a boat dock, a little store for the marina, and
that was about it.
We saw maybe 10 cars in our 16mi out/16mi back, mostly white folks.
These properties are owned by wealthy people, mostly kept in
conservation, some go back 300yr or more if they survived the Late
Unpleasantness. Aside from the road being fairly nice, I am guessing
there is not a lot of difference in what is there now v. what was there
a coupla hundred years ago when Carolina Gold rice and Sea Islands
cotton ruled the planet.
Bennett's Point Rd runs south from here 32.736462,-80.574961
--R
On 6/18/12 8:09 PM, Mountain Man wrote:
--R wrote:
I had a few words with the old gent, me speaking my
version of English, and him in his version, he was nicely warning us about
the bad people around there. Within a minute or so we had a fairly complete
understanding of the local social situation. He went on down by the road to
wait for his ride to church, we did 34miles out to the end of the road,
through old plantations, rice fields, marsh, and the Ashepoo River. It is a
whole nuther world.
Be polite, now... but I am interested in greater detail about the
impression of old plantations, etc. and how the local social situation
on your ride impressed you. I live in an insular place also. While
our town has the largest number of south of the border folk of any
city in the state - all great people, btw - we don't see these
individuals much. Just help a midwestern looser out... puleeez -
thanks.
mao
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