Roughly 6.5 miles east of Florence in a wooded area just in Mars Bluff, remains a massive crater, evidence of a U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet accidentally dropping a B-6 bomb up above on the property of an unsuspecting Gregg family during the days of the Cold War. The accident, which left a gaping hole in what was once a former garden, happened on March 11, 1958, and surprisingly despite the bomb falling from 15,000 feet above, no one was killed. Today, the site is still there but people who have tried to find it have expressed that it is not that easy to spot. Regardless, it is a physical reminder of the tense days between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Mars Bluff Atomic Bomb Impact Crater, E. Palmetto Street/U.S. 301, Mars Bluff, SC 29506

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