Another Roadside Attraction Geotrail

South Carolina - The Cotton Museum

There is nothing better than a good road trip: driving down the open road, eating at tiny roadside diners, going 150 miles out of the way to take a selfie in front of … the Peachoid water tower! Oh Say, can you see … me with the world’s largest frying pan?

This geotrail honors those unique, odd, bizarre, fun, historic, campy, weird, and just downright interesting roadside attractions in North and South Carolina. The caches aren’t meant to be hard, it is a power-trail after all. None of the caches are hidden at the posted locations - but answer the question correctly and you will have a working set of coordinates. All of the hides are preform bottles.

The South Carolina Cotton Museum is located in the heart of cotton country. A hundred years ago the Boll Weevil nearly destroyed the cotton crop and a map in the museum shows the bug’s relentless year-by-year march across the South.  The museum’s weevil - the World’s Largest - is a six legged nightmare, with bulbous eyes and a roto-rooter-tipped snout.  A microscopic real weevil sits at its feet, in a bottle, for comparison.  The weevils are all gone now, and the museum even has the last Boll Weevil captured in South Carolina.  Exhibits contrast the hardscrabble past of cotton with its apparently limitless future.  The museum also has a full sized sharecroppers shack, old cotton mill machinery, a 19th century cotton gin and press. 

More terrifying than the giant weevil, is another creature featured in the museum.  “The Lizard Man” with scaly green skin, weightlifter arms, and glowing red eyes appeared in a local butter bean drying shed in 1988 and quickly became infamous for tearing pieces off of cars and terrifying locals.  The museum has original plaster cast of Lizard Man’s footprints that were donated by the local sheriff. Many locals believe he still lives in the nearby swamp.

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Where can you find the World's Largest Boll Weevil?

A. Greenville, SC - 367

B. Bishopville, SC - 231

C. Beaufort, SC - 009

D. Myrtle Beach, SC - 700