Lowndesville’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Lowndesville. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusLowndesville is a town in Abbeville County, South Carolina. The population was 120 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 128 to 120 (-6%). Half of its homes were built before 1967.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lowndesville yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Lowndesville’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lowndesville’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo3 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewFeatherstone Tenant Farm, County …: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Lowndesville
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Lowndesville, decade by decade
2000
unknown3 items
Nothing in Lowndesville is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Lowndesville has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Alexander-Cleveland House in Elberton, 5.3 miles away.
Lowndesville and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Featherstone Tenant Farm, County Road 81 and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.