Carolina Ghost Towns Tom Taylor

The towns of Petersburg, Lisbon, and Vienna were located on the Savannah River at its confluence with the Broad River.  Petersburg and Vienna were on the Georgia side, and Vienna was across the Savannah in South Carolina.
Resources:
Blog Post
Plan of Petersburg
Old Petersburg report
Moses Waddel
Augusta Canal

Tunnel Hill was the shanty boomtown for workers working on the Stumphouse Tunnel, part of the Blue Ridge Railroad.  It was abandoned around the time of the Civil War when the railroad ran out of money to complete the project.
Blog post



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Renno was a railroad farming town in the Jacks Township of Laurens County, South Carolina.
Renno Blog Posts
Exploring Laurens County 2008
Renno and Stomp Springs 2011
Exploring Jacks Township 2013
Renno Revisited 2018
Township definitions:
A town is a populated area with commerce and administrative functions concentrated in a specific area
A township is an administrative area, similar to a county, but smaller.  It can contain several towns or cities.
Laurens County Townships:

Images of Bell's Store:


Images of Renno School:




Sardis Church Cemetery:

The Temple of Health was a stage coach stop in upper Abbeville County. It got its name from a set of springs that were purported to have healing properties.







Here are the links to information within the podcast…

Blog posts:

The Temple of Health

Ground Truthing

Trembly Bald

Script for this episode

The theme music for Carolina Ghost Towns is “Summertime” by LesFM. Other incidental music is from Pixabay.
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Ferguson was a lumber town founded an the banks of the Santee River by the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company. All that's left of the town is on Ferguson Island in Lake Marion.







Here are the links to information within the podcast…

Multiple blog posts:

The Ghost Towns of Lake Marion - Part One, Part Two, Part Three

Return to Ferguson

Script for this episode

The theme music for Carolina Ghost Towns is “Summertime” by LesFM. Other incidental music is from Pixabay.
You can reach us at CarolinaGhostTownsPod@gmail.com. 
www.randomconnections.com

Kingville, or Kingsville, was a major railroad junction in lower Richland County, South Carolina. It served as a support center and hospital for Confederate troops in the Civil War. The town was destroyed by Sherman's army, but rebuilt by freed slaves.



Here are the links to information within the podcast…

Original blog post

Script for this episode
Kingville Historical Foundation

The theme music for Carolina Ghost Towns is “Summertime” by LesFM. Other incidental music is from Pixabay.  Additional voices by Elevenlabs.io.  
You can reach us at CarolinaGhostTownsPod@gmail.com. 
www.randomconnections.com