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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