On the first Saturday of the month of October every year, the small rural unincorporated community of Lando, South Carolina holds its annual fall festival: Lando Days.
The community of Lando, which sits about two miles from the town of Richburg in the eastern part of Chester County, South Carolina, was once the site of a former textile mill village centered around the former Lando-Manetta Mills -- now currently the Lando-Manetta Mills History Center Museum -- with a population of several hundred mill workers and their families.
Today the rural Southern community has fewer than 100 people still residing there following the loss of the textile industry in South Carolina in the 1990s.
Like most fall festivals down here in my corner of Dixie, Lando Days has dozens of tents with vendors and food trucks selling everything from homemade handicrafts and antiques to snow cones, barbecue and cotton candy. Live music and a small park for the kids are also present, as well as a small vintage car show display.
There was also a Bloodmobile set up so that people could donate blood for a drive to help the recent hurricane flooding victims in neighboring North Carolina and Tennessee. I'd recently donated blood for the same cause only a few days prior, so I was unable to offer any more today.
The following photos were taken by your favorite blogger on a visit to Lando Days 2024 on Saturday, October 5 of this year.
The community of Lando, which sits about two miles from the town of Richburg in the eastern part of Chester County, South Carolina, was once the site of a former textile mill village centered around the former Lando-Manetta Mills -- now currently the Lando-Manetta Mills History Center Museum -- with a population of several hundred mill workers and their families.
Today the rural Southern community has fewer than 100 people still residing there following the loss of the textile industry in South Carolina in the 1990s.
Like most fall festivals down here in my corner of Dixie, Lando Days has dozens of tents with vendors and food trucks selling everything from homemade handicrafts and antiques to snow cones, barbecue and cotton candy. Live music and a small park for the kids are also present, as well as a small vintage car show display.
There was also a Bloodmobile set up so that people could donate blood for a drive to help the recent hurricane flooding victims in neighboring North Carolina and Tennessee. I'd recently donated blood for the same cause only a few days prior, so I was unable to offer any more today.
The following photos were taken by your favorite blogger on a visit to Lando Days 2024 on Saturday, October 5 of this year.
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| Some friends of mine from the Rock Hill, South Carolina Camp #1569 Sons of Confederate Veterans with their own table set up. |
I hope y'all enjoyed my photos from Lando Days 2024. Until next time, have a wonderful Dixie Day y'all!
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