South Carolina Weird

I like the weird “ball of twine” places (yes, we’ve seen two balls of twine). South Carolina had several cool places to stop and all were free. The best stop was the UFO Welcome Center. The house is right in Bowman SC. I’m sure the neighbors love it?

Scrap materials were assembled into two flying saucers. The top is supposed to be unattached from the bottom so it can take off using alien technology. The plan is that aliens are welcomed here as their first stop on Earth.

The side yard has a rocket, two cars, and a control panel. I’m not sure of the purpose of all that but hey, you do you, UFO guy.

Old Sheldon Church was a cool stop. The ruins of this church are pretty outstanding. The history is also fascinating. The British burned the mid-1700s church during the Revolutionary War. The church was rebuilt in 1826 and then burnt during Sherman’s march during the Civil War. It is a big church for what looks like a sparsely populated area.

Fort Motte Jail has some fascinating history but I have to say there isn’t much to see.  The location started as a plantation, then a British military outpost and depot during the Revolutionary War. The site was considered for the capital of the new state of South Carolina before Columbia was picked. The former jail is the only thing we saw that was left.

The Kazoo Museum was a quick but fun stop. We didn’t go on the factory tour but wandered the small museum. There was discussion of the music written for kazoos and performances using kazoos. Did you know the biggest kazoo performance in the world involved 5,190 people playing kazoos in the Royal Albert Hall in London? There were old kazoos.

And different designs.

And a flag display of kazoos.