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Photographer: Brian Scott
Taken: September 27, 2008
Caption: Old Bank Building Now Home to the Welcome Center
Additional Description: Formerly the Bank of the State of South Carolina, here one can view five paintings giving a capsule history of Abbeville from the 1750s through Reconstruction. Visitors are invited to view these paintings which were done in 1922 by Wilbur Kurtz, historical consultant for Gone With the Wind. At the north end of the Square, you will note that many of the buildings are somewhat similar in design. Disastrous fires in the 1870s destroyed much of the area, with the Welcome Center building being one of the few to survive. The buildings were replaced in similar style making Abbeville square authentically Victorian. (Source: Historic Sites Tour of Abbeville County by the Abbeville Visitors Council (2010), pg 3.)
Submitted: September 29, 2008, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p37199
File Size: 2.459 Megabytes

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