I love history and I particularly love historic buildings. Check out this article about the Bradley-Boggs Home in Pickens. It lifted my spirits to see another historic building is not going to be torn down to be turned into another generic strip mall. No offense to the strip mall developers, but there is plenty of places to build without destroying our past.
The Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation has been working on protecting this building and considering it is going up for auction, it was great news when Pickens City officials and representatives of the Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation discovered that the city’s rules protect the property from being demolished unless such action is approved by the city’s Architectural Review Board.
Now this is not a guarantee that the building will survive. But it is a good sign! Lets just hope the Architectural Review Board will not change it's mind in the future!
Historians now say the original portion of the home was moved from the original Pickens near the Oconee Nuclear Station to the city’s present location around 1868. The house was built by Maj. D.F. Bradley, founder of the Pickens Sentinel and Easley Progress, and for many years the Boggs family called it home prior to the Jaycees purchasing it and using it as a haunted house.
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