Another Dump Found in SC

By Jeffrey Kraemer; posted March 18, 2013

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I walked by a site where a steam station once stood for auxiliary power on the Southern Power Company's grid completed in 1910. There was the remians of a concrete bridge crossing a creek. This bridge was used for a railroad siding for the elevated trussel where they dumped coal for the plant long ago. When I crossed it I looked into the creek. Duke tore this plant down a long time ago and the creek was made of all the insulators from the power plant. Among the rubble of broken modern 30s and 40s crap and brick from the buildings were Thomas insulators of all kinds dating from the early 1910s.

I took three insulators with me that I could find whole in the area I could reach. Most of the creek I can't walk without some gear (I don't trust that water). All three of these insulators were dug out of the creek bed with rocks and bricks. I have a near complete flared bottom skirt to a Thomas with a corroded Lee pin insert, a small Thomas wall tube looking thing, and a large portion of a Thomas pin base.

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