This entry was posted on 5/29/2009 7:58 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
The 2009 Tri-State Memorial Day Roadtrip is about to come to a close, for tomorrow, we head back to GRG HQ.
During this entire roadtrip, Mary and I visited several historic and natural sights around Waycross, Savannah, and Charleston.
Roadgeek-wise, I "clinched" several more Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina counties, the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge over Charleston Harbor, I-4, I-516, I-526, and all of I-95 in Georgia plus 33 miles of I-95 in South Carolina.
Today, we visited historic
Drayton Hall, located on the scenic
Ashley River Road (SC 61) just northwest of Charleston, and the
Charleston Tea Plantation, the only place in America where tea is actually grown
and processed. Here's a photo of me with world-renowned tea expert and plantation operations manager Bill Hall...
Besides taking pictures of highway signs, I also enjoy taking pictures of historical markers. Here's one of the South Carolina historical marker at the entrance of Drayton Hall...
I'll be taking the rest of my historical marker photos from this trip and put them into photo galleries. As soon as I do, I'll notify y'all via my
Twitter page.
Here are a couple of road photos with a small side of history tidbits...
On June 5, 1991, the South Carolina legislature designated the I-526 (Mark Clark Expressway) bridge over the Ashley River the "
General William C. Westmoreland Bridge". A South Carolina native and West Point graduate, General Westmoreland (1914-2005) was most famous as the commanding general of U.S. forces in Vietnam during the 1960s. To learn more about General Westmoreland,
please click here.
Why is I-526 named the Mark Clark Expressway? To honor General Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984), a World War II general who, along with General George Patton, lead Allied forces to victory in North Africa and Sicily. After World War II, General Clark would serve as the last commander of U.N. forces during the Korean War and finish his military career as President of The Citadel. His remains were laid to rest at The Citadel near Mark Clark Hall. To learn more about General Clark,
please click here.
That's it for now. I've got to get my butt to bed and get some rest. Thanks for reading and please visit often.
