Gateway Conference Center Jingle Bell Bazaar 11-16-2019

Greetings and Salutations, Y'all! 

After what felt like a week of cold, rainy weather and the first real cold front of the coming winter season, your favorite blogger was able to leave the house on Saturday, November 16th and travel down SC 9 to the neighboring town of Richburg, South Carolina to visit the Jingle Bell Bazaar at the outstanding Gateway Conference Center.  

The Jingle Bell Bazaar features a number of local vendors and artisans displaying and selling off some really beautiful holiday handicrafts. The event also includes a bake sale and raffling off of merchandise, with all money going to local charitable causes. 

Here are some photo I took from the event and the remarkable items on display. Enjoy.

My thanks to all of these artists and local craftspeople for the time and effort they put into this outstanding display of holiday spirit. I hope all of y'all enjoyed my photos. Let me know what y'all think in the comments below. 

Thank you and y'all have a wonderful Dixie Day!

Union Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church Confederate Monument

On SC Highway 9 in Richburg, South Carolina in Chester County sits a plain but beautiful Confederate Soldiers' Monument in front of the Union Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church right by the church cemetery where dozens of former Confederate soldiers are buried.

Originally called the Rocky Creek Meeting House founded in the early 1770’s as a part of the Reformed Denomination, the congregation of Union ARP Church was organized around 1795. The current sanctuary, the second on the site, was constructed in 1848. It was moved a short distance and remodeled in 1913. 

The monument, erected on May 7, 1939 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, lists the names of all the veterans buried in the church cemetery.

Church, monument, and cemetery as seen from across
SC Highway 9.