Young's Plantation Inn / Ramada Inn / Palmetto Inn, 3311 Meadors Road (Florence): 2020 3 comments
I don't normally grab a lot of pictures that aren't mine and put them up, but in this case they seem to have mainly come from a ".ru" site, so the cork is probably already out of that bottle, and I think it makes an interesting contrast:
I ran across this former Ramada Inn off I-95 exit 157 in Florence a few weeks ago, took a few drive through pictures, drove off, thought about it, and came back for a walk-through.
What I find interesting, apart from the general decrepitness is that the property seems to have operated well into 2020, judging by the COVID signs on the office (where the lights are still on). In fact, many of the rooms still look ready to go, though others, of course, do not. If it did run that late, I would put the closing date as well *after* the swimming pool fill-in date, as that looks to have been done a good time ago given the plants in the hot tub area, and the patchy grass on the pool itself.
Apparently at the end, the manager lived in-house, as there is a second story room with an irritated sign saying no knocking after 8PM as it is not an office.
To me the architecture with its fence around the top of the building and the corner towers looks a bit like a stalag, and I can't imagine what purpose the enclosed huts on top of those served. I would say AC, but the rooms appear to have had standard outside-wall AC units:
I'm not sure what Young's Plantation is, or why it merits a shout-out on the sign.
LoopNet says the property is six acres and at one time was on the market for $495,000, although it is apparently no longer for sale.
You can see the Shell Station sign here:
Here is the full set of pictures from the Internet.
UPDATE 19 October 2021 -- Adding Young's Plantation Inn as the first item in the post title, based on the comments.
3 Responses to 'Young's Plantation Inn / Ramada Inn / Palmetto Inn, 3311 Meadors Road (Florence): 2020'
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Lone Wolf
19 Oct 21 at 8:34 am
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The pool was intact (but closed) as late as May of this year. Google Earth seems to indicate that the pool did not reopen after 2013.
Nine feet is INCREDIBLY deep for a hotel pool. Most hotel pools rarely exceed 4-5 feet for liability reasons.
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I drive by there today and it is being demolished.
John
11 Jan 24 at 11:33 am
Without violating PERSEC, I am familiar with the area.
The Young family, of Young's Pecans ( https://www.youngspremiumfoods.com ) own/owned a lot of land in that area. One of their many ventures was Young's Plantation Inn.
As recently as the 90s, Young's Plantation Inn was a nice, if older place. Still family run. It was the kind of place folks would go after church for lunch. Weddings were held there.
I have no knowledge of its life as "Palmetto Inn" or Ramada, or when those changeovers might have taken place.