Merge Old South with spooky lore and the ruins of a church and you have Yemassee, South Carolina.
Yemassee is located off of I-95 just north of the Georgia-South Carolina line. The town itself seems so isolated that you feel like you're back in the Old South. Yet, it is just a couple of miles off of I-95, so civilization is not that far away.
Besides downtown, check out the deserted ruins of the spooky Old Sheldon Church just a couple of miles down a dark two lane road. The church is part of a state park. The ruins have been stabilized, but the tombstones around the cemetery have somewhat fallen into disrepair. Here is the legend about the church-- General William Tecumseh Sherman on his March to the Sea supposedly used the church as a hospital and eventually burned it to the ground. However, there is also rumor that it was never burned down by Sherman and that it burned down shortly afterwards but not by Union soldiers. Who knows who is right, but the marker next to the cemetery blames the Union Army. Here are the pictures. A great town and a great place lost in time.
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