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If you guys are looking for a way to get in good with your sweetie, I got just the thing. When I fished at Secession with my buddy Jeff he pointed out the Belmont Inn and the Opera House in Abbeville and told me about coming up and going to a play and staying at the Belmont Inn. Both of these building were built around 1910 and have been restored to wonderful condition. I am certainly no connoisseur of plays, but Arsenic and Old Lace is the current play and I laughed my tail off at the show. The actors were really good and it was an entertaining evening.
We got a package deal from the Belmont which cost $209. That gave us a night at the Inn, 2 tickets to the play, 2 dinners at the Inn (any menu items such as Ribeye, salmon), and many other choices plus desert, and breakfast the next morning as well. When you figured the 2 dinner meals alone would have cost you $60-$70 the package is a good deal.
Both are on the square in Abbeville which is loaded with historic markers, buildings, and many restaurants. I learned that the Civil War began and ended in Abbeville and that Seccesion Hill and Lake Secession got their names from the secession letter that the confederacy issued from Abbeville, marking the beginning of the civil war. And years later, the surrender was signed there as well, thus it is the birth and death of the war.

All in all, a really fun get away for the wife and I. We went up Friday morning and came back Saturday afternoon. I know this has nothing to do with Crappie fishing, but had it not been for the Fall Crappiefest and going back the next week with Jeff I would never have known about this, so I thought some of you might like to try it. I am sure we will go back in the next few months.

Belmont Inn | On the Square in Abbeville, SC

Home - Abbeville Opera House

Forgot to mention that I also ran over the the Sportsman's One Stop in Iva to spend some time browsing in the store. When we went there of the Fest, we ran in, got minnows and took off, so I never had time to check out the store. I found some of Ronnie's jigs in the identical pattern to the red, silver, white Hal Fly that my buddy and I use to kill the crappie with in Atlanta, so I got a half dozen to try out.

Ray I'm glad to hear you and your wife came and spent some time in Abbeville. A lot of history around the town and many things to see that are very interesting. My 5x great-grandfather came over from Scotland- Ireland in 1773 aboard the Lord Dunluce with the Kellswater congregation of the Irish Reformed Presbyterians. He had purchased 400 -acres a few miles out from Abbeville, as you can see I have long roots there and in the upstate of South Carolina.

I have always enjoyed spending time around the town and the country side close by visiting old homesteads and the old graveyards. You can't just stop and walk through the woods like I use to years ago to find things that was once there but still a lot to keep you busy for a weekend or more. Did you visit Burt-Stark Mansion, some interesting info there.

glad to hear you and your Sweetie had a good time Ray.
will have to try Abbeville on one them ==
wonder where this road goes that me and Sweetie do from time to time

Very good Ray, Ann and I would really enjoy something like that.