Rusting cabin, Allendale County, S.C.

Rusting, vernacular cabin just east of Sycamore, S.C., on Confederate Highway.
Rusting, vernacular cabin just east of Sycamore, S.C., on Confederate Highway.

This old, rusting vernacular house east of Sycamore, S.C., is in the middle of the six-county impoverished area that the Center for a Better South has worked with area and state leaders to apply for a federal Promise Zone designation.  Read about our work here.

While the farmhouse seems to be unoccupied, but may be used as a hunting cabin, it’s easy to see good workmanship in the framing.  Structures like this dot the countryside throughout the Southern Crescent, a reminder of tenant farming of days gone by.

Sycamore, a village to the west of about 180 people, is about 60 percent white with a 35 percent black community of residents.  Unlike the whole of Allendale County with its almost 40 percent poverty rate, poverty is comparatively low at 10 percent in Sycamore.

Photo by Andy Brack, Center for a Better South, Oct. 1, 2014.  All rights reserved.

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