Small Towns in the South Carolina Upcountry

Will Cobb

Forward – Sam Harrelson

Join Will as he travels throughout eight counties in the Upcountry of South Carolina. Whether it be ghosts, battles, or just pure history, this book contains it all.

Counties

Abbeville

Greenwood

Cherokee

Laurens

Newberry

Spartanburg

Chester

York

Interviews

Former Gov. Mark Sanford

Pete Godfrey

Luis Shelley

Ken Stribling

Towns

1. Abbeville County – Lowendsville, Abbeville, Donalds, Due West, Calhoun Falls, Honea Path

2. Cherokee County – Blacksburg, Cherokee Falls, Cashion Crossroads, Kings Creek, Gaffney, Gowdeysville

3. Chester County – Lowrys, Chester, Richburg, Great Falls

4. Greenwood County – Hodges, Ninety Six, Cokesbury, Ware Shoals

5. Laurens County – Cross Hill, Gray Court, Waterloo, Joanna, Kinards

6. Newberry County – Little Mountain, Peak, Pomaria, Prosperity, Silverstreet, Whirtmire

7. Spartanburg County – Landrum, Cowpens, Chesnee, Cross Anchor, Drayton

8. York County – Smyrna, Hickory Grove, Sharon, McConnells, Brattonsville, York, Fort Mill

The book also features a special forward written by Sam Harrelson, a former teacher of Will’s. He was born in the small town of Mullins, which is located in the Pee-Dee Region.

The book also features an article of Will’s that was featured in several papers about a gas station that shuttered its doors within the last year in his hometown.

Price: TBA

Release Date: Late March

We are pleased to announce that the book is in its final stages of being edited. Be sure to look for the book in stores in the next month!

We are sad to announce that Godfrey’s Market in Hodges has come to an end. The market, built by Frank and Pete Godfrey in 1948, has sadly changed it’s name to a more simpler, “Hodges One Stop.” Many of the locals have frowned upon this change and are still calling it Godfrey’s. It’ll take a long time for anyone to get used to it. To most of the residents, it was like a second home.

To all whom it may concern:

We will not have many posts on the site over the next couple of weeks due to edits being made on the book.

STSC Staff

Located on the backroads of Kershaw County, you may stumble across the old Cool Springs Plantation. The plantation was built back in the mid 1800′s by the Boykin Family. The plantation was owned up until the 1970′s by the family. Somewhere along the line, a man by the name of Dixie Boykin somehow held ownership of the plantation. There was no exact reason given for his cause of death. Dixie was ‘fond’ of wine and, if you visit the plantation, always set out a glass of wine for the former farmer. Other things menitoned were seeing a man in early 1900′s attire as well as hearing music from the same era.

I persuade all of you to click here and order Tally Johnson’s book about Ghost Stories in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina. This is where most of the stores on our site come from.

Dear Readers,

After a short hiatus, the Small Towns SC website is back! We have much, much more coming soon to the site. With my Book being released within the following months,I hope the site grows to be the biggest web resource in the state of South Carolina. We have so much more coming soon! We hope to conduct another, yes another, web re-design under the leadership of Devin Tonhaeuser(hopefully) and myself. We want to hear YOUR opinion however. We are looking at Woo-Themes to get a new theme for the site, and we want you to help us decide our next step with the site. By clicking here, you will be able to view the themes that could be the next for our site. Please email me at will@smalltownssc.com if you have one that you like.

Until then, I’m glad to say, We’re Back!

Will Cobb

Will is VERY close to the completion of his book. He was hoping for the book to have a late November release, but due to circumstances, he was unable to accomplish this. In the following days, look for information about the book. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas!