Bet you didn’t know that when he was passing through here (or perhaps sometime thereafter), W. Tecumseh bought a brick for Riverbanks Zoo.
Neither did I. I learned this quite inadvertently over the weekend during an outing with the twins. We happened to be closer to the bridge than to the tram station when we decided to head back to the car on the garden side of the river, so we walked, and discovered the above.
And to think, people say such awful things about ol’ War Is Hell. So he burned Columbia? A lot of those blocks were already messed up, as Chris Tucker, who apparently did NOT set the city on fire when he was here, might say…
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I like Southern humor. A brick in the new bridge memorializing the guy who burned the old bridge spanning the Saluda (the remains of which lie right alongside). Who had the last laugh?
That is quite a hill to walk up. I love the Tram. But the nature trail over there is also quite nice and from it, you can see a big huge rock poking out of the bluff under which Sherman supposedly spent the night (probably right after he bought his brick). I will have to look for his brick. I had no idea.