Mike ( hupcap )

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Have you ever been to Old Sheldon Church in South Carolina?

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

I plan on making a ride to this..... " sometime " .



Known also as the Sheldon Church or Old Sheldon Church, the pre-existing building was originally known as Prince William's Parish Church. The church was built in the Greek Revival style between 1745 and 1753. Prince William's was burned by the British in 1779 during the Revolutionary War. In 1826 it was rebuilt. The following is from an article in the April 1969 Sandlapper Magazine by Charles E. Thomas, “The Picturesque Ruins Of Old Sheldon Church”. “The official South Carolina report on the “Destruction of Churches and Church Property,” after the War Between the States, described Sheldon’s second burning: “All that was combustible was consumed..., its massive walls survive the last as they did the former conflagration,” Bishop Thomas wrote, “Exactly as it happened a hundred years before in 1779, when General Prevost, marching from Savannah into South Carolina burned the Church, so now in February 1865, General Sherman marching from Georgia into South Carolina, burned it a second time.”

An alternative view has more recently come to light, however. In a letter dated February 3, 1866, Miton Leverett wrote that "Sheldon Church not burn't. Just torn up in the inside, but can be repaired." The inside of the church was apparently gutted to reuse materials to rebuild homes burnt by Sherman's army.

[hubcapsc]

I've been there numerous time, with Frank Smoak even...



Let's make a ride of it... Old Sheldon Church is near enough to civilization that a
bunch of people zoom down the little road as a cut-through, but there's other
really cool "Low Country" places to go too...

Down to the end of Bennett's Point... it's 20 miles, and you just have to turn
around and come back, maybe explore a few side roads. I've been all the way
to the little cluster-of-houses/township at the end and went into the little
store where eight or ten colorful folks and some shrimpers were laughing
and drinking a beer, it looked like that was what goes on most every
Friday afternoon... Bennett's Point road leads past large original
rice plantation properties, kind of a pig trail through the pine forest,
no traffic, there's kind of a wide place in the road where
it crosses the Ashepoo River, I stopped there in the spring once
and smelled some of the best smells I ever smelled... if you stopped
there quiet for ten or fifteen minutes you'd probably see some cool
birds or an alligator or something...

Also nearby is the Salkehatchie River Road, I love riding through there...

A giant old sawmill is there, I talked to some folks there once, the
owner shut the mill down in the 60's when the government came
in and told him how much he had to pay his employees... this machine,
I think, ran the belts that ran off to all the other machines, saws, planers,
whatever...



Frank Lloyd Wright built a house/plantation there during WWII... it went into
disrepair and was a hunting shack for a while, but rich movie producers bought
it and now it is in better shape than ever... Wright got copper for the roof during
the war, but copper was too scarce then and he couldn't get the proper thickness,
I'm sure it has a good copper roof on it now... won't matter for us, though, you
can only see the whacky "architectural" gates at the front as you pass by...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auldbrass_Plantation

There's a road through the swamp near by on the way to Edisto with
a couple of curves in it 

-Mike

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Today was 23 straight days without a day off working in Paradise , Kentucky . I've got business to deal with in the morning so I made it home tonight and Tuesday have a dentist appointment. I can't plan nothing anymore all they want me to do is work. I'm hoping after we get the new power line complete in Kentucky I can get some chill time for Joe.... Thanks for sharing all the info and yes I do want to go check this place out. Don't do the ride there until I can go 

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Nearly close by is Hunting Island where the Vietnam sections of Forrest Gump were filmed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_Island_State_Park

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g54135-d146911-r142749633-Hunting_Island_State_Park-Beaufort_South_Carolina.html