Abandoned S & S Truck Stop, South Carolina
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"[What makes] Murphy Village unique is that it's a continent away from Dublin and Galway — it's located across from an S & S Truck Stop on a stretch of U.S. 25, four miles north of the Clearwater Road on the Aiken- Edgefield county line in South Carolina..."
Irish America, Volume 10. 1994
What remained of the S&S Truck Stop in 2012, and which is no longer there at all. Murphy Village is a settlement of Irish Travellers that has become a suburb of McMansions as eccentric in style as any other American suburb of McMansions.
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