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The postal system of those early years in Bowman's history involved horse and buggy deliveries about twice a week from Orangeburg, and patrons from both town and surrounding areas had to pick up their mail from the post office until rural routes and carriers were organized to deliver mail outside the town limits in the early 1900s.
The Branchville and Bowman Railroad, was a successor of sorts of the Smoak tramway, a three-foot gauge wooden-railed logging line built in 1884, which served the Smoak family mill in Branchville, South Carolina. [1] The Branchville and Bowman was chartered in 1890 with a goal of creating a line to the new town of Bowman, South Carolina, and ...
The Smoak Tramway was a three-foot narrow gauge line using wooden rails. Approximately 6 miles long, it started operating in 1884 and ended service in 1890. The tram way was chartered by an act of the South Carolina Legislature on December 23, 1884 (although another author cites the date as December 24, 1884 [1]). Used as a logging railroad for ...
The UFO Welcome Center was a tourist curiosity located in Bowman, South Carolina, United States, built in the back yard of Jody Pendarvis.It consisted of a 46-foot-wide flying saucer (14 m) built out of wood, fiberglass, and plastic. [1]
South Carolina prison officials are scheduled to execute Marion Bowman Jr. by lethal injection on Friday. Bowman maintains his innocence, an assertion Kandee's family doesn't buy.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of South Carolina that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1 ...
Bowman was sentenced to death for the Feb. 16, 2001, shooting death of 21-year-old Kandee Martin five days before her son's second birthday. ... South Carolina plans to execute Marion Bowman Jr ...
South Carolina has forgotten history of its own. For the first time, there will be an event to commemorate the 1876 Hamburg Massacre, a violent attack on the Reconstruction era rights of Black ...