1930s Images of Small Town Life in South Carolina

There’s no doubt, in many ways life in South Carolina in the 1930s was a much simpler time than life now 80+ years later. The farming towns, lumber towns and the mill towns each had their own characteristics, but they also had certain things in common. Take a look at what every small town in South Carolina had in the 1930s.

2. ...even a mercantile store, if they were lucky.

3. Tenant farms were plentiful in the 1930s as the economy rebounded from the Great Depression.

4. Most people in small towns raised their own animals as a resource for feeding the family.

5. Most small towns had at least a small schoolhouse. This one at Camp Croft was rather large.

6. Advertising on the side of barns and other buildings. It seems no matter where you lived, in a big city or small town, you still needed to buy certain things.

7. Big fancy homes where the wealthier families lived.

8. ...and the homes where everyone else lived.

10. Most small towns set aside a place at or near the church to bury deceased loved ones.

11. A post office was an integral part of the community in the 1930s. Sometimes they were located inside the mercantile/general store.

13. A simple dirt road leading in and out of town.

If you’d like to see more of South Carolina in the 1930s, then take a look at these 21 Rare Photos Taken In South Carolina During The Great Depression.

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What Every Small Town In South Carolina Had In The 1930s. It Was A Simpler Time.

Robin Jarvis

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