First visible work at the 9-11 memorial

Ground has been broken for Oconee County’s long-awaited remembrance to the attacks against three United States locations on September 11, 2001. Brandy Shirley of the citizens committee that has been planning the memorial for years says the groundbreaking was three weeks ago. Since then, erosion control and drainage features are being worked on at the location near Walhalla Middle School and fronting SC 183/the Pickens Highway location. Shirley believes this memorial to those who died and were hurt when terrorists flew airplanes into Washington and New York City buildings and into an open field in western Pennsylvania will be special because it will feature actual debris from each of the crash sites. As to when the memorial will be finished—and opened to the Oconee and visiting public—Shirley is predicting March.