Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Anderson

~Here are some pictures from my trip to the town of Anderson in South Carolina:

This fountain is outside of the Anderson County Museum, which has a lot of interesting historical exhibits about the area.  The fountain honors Robert Anderson (for whom the town and county are named), who was a military officer during the American Revolution and later a politician in South Carolina:


This obelisk is a monument of James L. Orr, a local philanthropist and cotton mill who lived in the late 1800s.  The top of this cenotaph is not actually broken -- the monument was built that way to represent how Orr's life was cut short.  Note the "JLO" initials design 2/3 up the monument:


A Revolutionary War-era cannon affectionately known as Ol' Reformer, outside the museum:


A bell made in Baltimore in the year 1900.  This thing is LOUD:


...and underneath the bell, a geocache!:

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