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Featured: ABC 2/18/2015

A grant from South Carolina Parks Recreation and Tourism allowed Palmetto Conservation Foundation to deck and add handrails to this 1,100-foot long bridge over the Broad River. The view is spectacular, especially when the bald eagles soar overhead.

While standing on the trestle you can look down and see the pilings left from the original bridge, which was destroyed during the Civil War. At the time, General William Tecumseh Sherman�s troops were devastating the area as they continued their infamous march to the sea, burning nearby bridges and towns. Telegrams from that time have led historians to believe that the Confederate soldiers were in fact the ones to burn this particular bridge. The Confederates may have done this to keep the Union troops from crossing and furthering the destruction.

I am a retired fitness instructor/personal trainer just wanting to show people the beautiful world we live in. The beautiful world God has given us. Beauty is around us everywhere, the matter is that we have to see it with different eyes. Everyone knows that a flower, a puppy or a sunset is beautiful, but there are many other things that deserve our attention and that are beautiful for other reasons than simply visual. Things tell us stories, everything you find in your way has something to say, an old building, an abandoned church, even old tools tell us about themselves. But, how do we make other people listen and find the beauty? Well, that's called "art". Art makes things talk by themselves and tell us their story, it gives real...