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UFO Welcome Center, Bowman, S.C.

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Yep, there’s a welcome center for UFOs in the heart of the Southern Crescent in Bowman, S.C., in rural Orangeburg County.

The saucer-shaped building is in the yard of Jody Pendarvis, who started building it in 1994, according to RoadsideAmerica.com.

Mount Pleasant resident Don Gordon snapped the photo on a detour through Bowman in an attempt to avoid traffic jam on Interstate 26.

Orangeburg County is home too more than 91,000 people, two thirds of whom are black.  The county has a poverty rate of 24.5 percent.  The City of Orangeburg, known for its gardens and historically black colleges, officially is home to 13,850 people and has a 31.3 poverty rate in 2012, but the greater area has more than 65,000 people.

Copyrighted photo was taken and originally posted in August 2014 by Don Gordon.  All rights reserved.

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Neglected, Bowman, S.C.

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Abandoned agricultural buildings, near Bowman, S.C.

 

These old buildings along U.S. Highway 178 just south of the town limits of Bowman, S.C., are abandoned, given up to invading vines, trees and neglect.  You can imagine how they were busy in their heyday when small-farm agriculture boomed.

The red-brick-colored buildings are in Orangeburg County, home too more than 91,000 people, two thirds of whom are black.  The county has a poverty rate of 24.5 percent.  The City of Orangeburg, known for its gardens and historically black colleges, officially is home to 13,850 people and has a 31.3 poverty rate in 2012, but the greater area has more than 65,000 people. Bowman, chartered in 1894, has just under 1,000 people.

Copyrighted photo was taken April 23, 2014 by Andy Brack.  All rights reserved.

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Silos, near Bowman, S.C.

Silos, near Bowman, S.C.
Silos, near Bowman, S.C.

These empty silos off appropriately-named Holstein Road in rural Orangeburg County are waiting to be filled with crops that recently have been planted.

Orangeburg County is home too more than 91,000 people, two thirds of whom are black.  The county has a poverty rate of 24.5 percent.  The City of Orangeburg, known for its gardens and historically black colleges, officially is home to 13,850 people and has a 31.3 poverty rate in 2012, but the greater area has more than 65,000 people. Bowman, by contrast, has just under 1,000 people.

Copyrighted photo was taken April 23, 2014 by Andy Brack.  All rights reserved.

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70s sign, near Bowman, S.C.

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Pen Davis Grocery, near Bowman, S.C.

 

This floral, colorful 1970s 7-Up sign outside the old Pen Davis Grocery south of Bowman, S.C.,  on U.S. Highway 178 evokes an uplifting sense of days gone by, despite the slow decay of the store.

14.0505.signThe abandoned rural store, which sports at least two “no trespassing” signs, is in Orangeburg County, home too more than 91,000 people, two thirds of whom are black.  The county has a poverty rate of 24.5 percent.  The City of Orangeburg, known for its gardens and historically black colleges, officially is home to 13,850 people and has a 31.3 poverty rate in 2012, but the greater area has more than 65,000 people. Bowman, by contrast, has just under 1,000 people.

Copyrighted photo was taken April 23, 2014 by Andy Brack.  All rights reserved.