LONG HOUSE BUILDING

The Great Pee Dee River country of the Carolinas runs from the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. Small towns dot it banks and byways. The country is deep in history, lure and wildness.. 

To the west is the Sand Hills full of wildlife and swamps, conjuring up thoughts of a Jurassic world. It is the river though that defines the country. My camera never seems to get its fill of wandering here.

There is much revolutionary war and times of slavery written in this land and towns. Slaves were transported on the river north, sold and left. Sherman laid much of the area to waste in his march south in the late 1700’s. You can almost hear the voices of the past if you stop and listen. Sometimes they’re in the wind or the still moments of a Southern Summer.

You stumble onto sites like Long House Building in Darlington SC. Only a small brass plate on the corner revealing its name. You search and search for the history of the place. Like many sites here, the history has been lost with time. 

What remains is the beauty of the place. Its patina, color and graceful ruin lingering in your soul. All enough to make you return…