ELLENTON, S.C. (WJBF) — The move to make way for the Savannah River Site in the 1950’s erased entire towns across Aiken, Barnwell, and Allendale counties. Decades later, those who lived through it are still unpacking what was lost — and what came next.
“Our clock was the sun,” Mary Elizabeth Sapp Bush told Shawn. “We worked from sun up to sundown.”
93-year-old Mary Elizabeth Sapp Bush grew up just outside Ellenton — the oldest of nine — on a working farm where hard labor wasn’t optional. “That was just our lives. We were both we were farmers, and at the time, it was hard work, but that was all we knew,” she added…