Hound of Goshen

The town of Athens was a short-lived town on the north end of Travelers Rest, South Carolina. It had been part of Travelers Rest, but split off from the lower town due to civic disagreement. Later, it was reabsorbed into Travelers Rest. A segregated community known as Pine Ridge grew up in the old Athens area, but retained several of the Athens names.

Most of the information I have comes from a 2016 blog post I wrote about the town. Here's a link. NOTE: In this episode I said that Athens Baptist Church is closed and unoccupied. I’m getting conflicting information about that. There is no longer a sign in front of the building and Google Maps doesn’t identify the location. I can’t find any social media presence for the church. The last news article that mentions the church was in 2017. The church is listed with a pastor’s name on the North Enoree Baptist Association website. I’ve reached out to them for confirmation, but as of this recording I haven’t heard back from them.

Cokesbury Masonic Female College

The communities of Tabernacle, Mount Ariel, and Cokesbury are located in northern Greenwood County, South Carolina. These communities represent the evolution of a Utopian Methodist settlement formed around an academic institution. Resources for this episode:

• Cokesbury College Website
• Blog post - Cokesbury Tour
• Cokesbury - SC Picture Project
• Tabernacle Cemetery - SC Picture Project
• Cokesbury, The Methodist Town
• Old Cokesbury (PDF)
• Stephen Olin - Wikipedia
• Historic Cokesbury Postcard

Mayucha was a boom town in Oconee County, South Carolina, at the turn of the 20th Century. Now located in the Sumter National Forest, the town was known for gold mining. There is much that is unknown about this town.

Resources:

• Wikipedia Article - from Archive
• Blog post - Mysterious Mayucha and the Wolf Pit
• Salem: Twice a Town
• Oconee LDMA Camp
• Treasure.net discussion
• Miuka Falls
• Wolf Pit Cemetery

Lost Cove Cabin - photo by Brenda Wiley

The community of Lost Cove was never really a town, yet it's on just about every list of North Carolina ghost towns. It was always been remote, with no roads into the community.

Resources:

• Atlas Obscura
• Lost Cove, North Carolina: The Life and Death of a Thriving Community (1864-1957) - Christy Smith
• Citizens of Lost Cove
• Epitaph for Lost Cove

Season 4 of Carolina Ghost Towns drops on Tuesday, September 1.

Happy Fourth of July!

I'm taking some time off from the podcast to travel and be with family. I'll be back with more episodes later in August. Until then, have a great summer!

In the 1730s, a group of Swiss and French Huguenots let by Jean Pierre Purry came to South Carolina and settled on the Savannah River. Their new town became known as Purrysburg.

These are some of the resources used in this episode:

• Blog Post - Grave Matters on the Savannah
• Blog Post - A Paddle and a Pow Wow on the Savannah River
• A History of Purrysburg on Carolana
• Wikipedia article

• Memorial presented to His Grace, my lord the Duke of Newcastle ... upon the present condition of Carolina, and the means of its amelioration: by Jean Pierre Purry

• A description of the province of South Carolina, drawn up at Charles Town, in September, 1731. Tr. from Mr. Purry's original treatise, in French, and published in the Gentleman's magazine, for August, September, and October, 1732
• The history of South Carolina in the revolution, 1775-1780
• Purrysburg Cemetery