Visit Florence SC

10/15/2026

Check out this week's upcoming events for Florence County at https://conta.cc/4zwDAKT

10/13/2026

Don't miss out on your chance to win 2 passes to Moore Farms Botanical Garden Barks & BOOze event! Details below!

🎃🐾 GIVEAWAY TIME: Win 2 🎟️ BOOze Passes to Moore Farms Barks & BOOze!

👉 Enter to win: https://visitflo.com/barks-booze

A little BOO, a little brew, and a whole lot of tail-wagging fun! Join Moore Farms on Saturday, October 24, from 3–6 p.m. for a Halloween celebration with something for almost everyone:

🍺 B**r, w**e, and live music for the grown-ups
🍬 Games, candy, and Halloween decorations throughout the garden for the kids
🐶 Dog-friendly fun and a costume contest for the pups!

Costumes are encouraged—bring the family, dress up your dog, and enjoy an afternoon for a good cause. All event proceeds benefit the humane society. ❤️

👉 Enter to win: https://visitflo.com/barks-booze

Winner will be chosen Wednesday, October 14 at 4:30PM.

Admission: $10 general admission | $20 BOOze Pass | $5 ages 3–11 | FREE ages 2 & under. Purchase tickets at https://visitflo.com/barks-booze-buy-tickets

10/13/2026

🥜🎉 It Just Doesn't Get Any Nuttier Than This! 🎉🥜

A BIG congratulations to Chris from the Fort Mill Welcome Center on completing the South Carolina Pecan Trail! 👏🌟

Chris has officially cracked the trail, and he's got the shirt to prove it! 😎🥜

We're always excited to see our fellow tourism professionals exploring Florence County and discovering what makes the SC Pecan Trail so special!

Way to go, Chris! Thanks for joining in on the nutty fun! 🌳❤️

10/12/2026

🎃🐾 GIVEAWAY TIME: Win 2 🎟️ BOOze Passes to Moore Farms Barks & BOOze!

👉 Enter to win: https://visitflo.com/barks-booze

A little BOO, a little brew, and a whole lot of tail-wagging fun! Join Moore Farms on Saturday, October 24, from 3–6 p.m. for a Halloween celebration with something for almost everyone:

🍺 B**r, w**e, and live music for the grown-ups
🍬 Games, candy, and Halloween decorations throughout the garden for the kids
🐶 Dog-friendly fun and a costume contest for the pups!

Costumes are encouraged—bring the family, dress up your dog, and enjoy an afternoon for a good cause. All event proceeds benefit the humane society. ❤️

👉 Enter to win: https://visitflo.com/barks-booze

Winner will be chosen Wednesday, October 14 at 4:30PM.

Admission: $10 general admission | $20 BOOze Pass | $5 ages 3–11 | FREE ages 2 & under. Purchase tickets at https://visitflo.com/barks-booze-buy-tickets

10/12/2026

Get creative this week with all of the arts events happening in the P*e Dee area! Check out upcoming events at https://conta.cc/4yGlyWD

10/08/2026

One of our favorite pieces of artwork downtown is “Big Bleu Birdnanna”! 🎨

With so much amazing public art around Florence, we want to know — what’s your favorite? 👇

10/08/2026

Check out all of this week's upcoming events for Florence County at https://conta.cc/4ybJSP8

10/07/2026

Notice anything new in Downtown Florence? The lights are back on at the Carolina!

10/06/2026

The Florence County, SC road beckoned as much for the pecan trees lining each side as for what looked like promising white columns nearly a quarter of a mile away. As I drew closer, the columns delivered on that promise.

The house, in fact, is often known as The Columns - given that name in 1902 by Jennie Robertson Rankin when she and her husband, Walter, purchased the house. Walter died an untimely death two years later, but Jennie remained there until 1959.

As for those columns, there are 22 of them encircling the house on three sides, constructed in 1857 by enslaved workers with bricks handmade on site. Ten years later, the Civil War gave the enslaved their freedom, but the house and the farm remained. Cotton and to***co continued to be raised by some of the former slaves and their families.

The original owner, WIlliam Rogers Johnson, died in 1893, and the house transitioned into the 20th century, continuing as a working farm throughout the time that it was owned by the Rankin family, but a more interesting line item on its resume was the role it played in the 1934 movie, "Carolina", starring Lionel Barrymore, Janet Gaynor, and a little girl named Shirley Temple.

Because of that movie, the house is also sometimes known as "Carolina Hall". Then again, when Rankin descendant, James Harwell, purchased the place in 1974, the name Rankin-Harwell House also began to apply, so take your pick.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and today remains one of South Carolina's finest examples of Greek Revival architecture.

Photo by Beth Yarbrough.