Aiken County – Building a better South

April 14, 2015April 15, 2015

Empty store, New Holland Crossroads, S.C.

Abandoned store, New Holland Crossroads, S.C.

This old store is diagonally across the Old Ninety Six Indian Trail from Jackson Hole in the western part of South Carolina. New Holland Crossroads in rural Aiken County, S.C., looks pretty much like a ghost town these days, said photographer Linda W. Brown of Kingstree, S.C.

Aiken County, longtime home of the federal Savannah River Site, is not a Southern Crescent county but it is adjacent to impoverished Barnwell and Orangeburg counties. Rural areas in Aiken County look much like those in the Crescent.

March 24, 2015March 25, 2015

Old diner, New Holland Crossroads, S.C.

Jackson Hole, New Holland Crossroads, S.C.

This apparently abandoned building is at New Holland Crossroads in Aiken County, S.C., writes photographer Linda W. Brown of Kingstree, S.C.

“There is an old ‘A’ food service rating on the door, so I would guess that it was some sort of eating establishment, or bar that served food, at one time or another,” she observed.