Vacant truck stop, Ulmer, S.C.

This image recalls a more vibrant past for U.S. Highway 301 as it passed through rural Ulmer, S.C., in Allendale County.  As in our previous post, this image — oddly of an abandoned Interstate truck stop and restaurant — recalls how the Interstate [95 in this case] swallowed up businesses after the S.C. stretch opened fully in 1976.

Allendale County is South Carolina’s poorest with 40.2 percent of its inhabitants living in poverty, according to the U.S. Census.

Photo taken May 6, 2013, by Michael Kaynard, Kaynard Photography, for the Center for a Better South.  All rights reserved.

• QuickFacts about Allendale County from the U.S. Census.