The Landrum Library presents a showing of the documentary film “Merrittsville:  Lost Village of the Dark Corner” with Dr. Anne Blythe on Tuesday, Oct. 8 beginning at 6:30 p.m. Her documentary film is an outgrowth of both her Upcountry heritage and her belief in the importance of place in our lives.

The Dark Corner of Greenville County holds many secrets. One of them, perhaps the least known and now with time, the most mysterious, is the once-thriving but now underwater lost village of Merrittsville.

Balanced upon the mountain peak dividing North and South Carolina, Merrittsville once rested in the ancient crosspath of the Saluda Gap, that natural passage way first marked by the tracks of native animals, then those of Native Americans. It later became the best route over the rugged mountains.

What is known as “the Old State Road,”- the Superhighway of the 18th century, connecting upcountry with low country. But progress always exacts its due and over time, the price we paid was the loss of this once-bustling mountain town. Merrittsville now exists only in memory and story.