The Lone Star Buffet
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If you like cooking that is reminiscent of the Old South, you will
love our "All You Can Eat" buffet. Lone Star features fresh vegetables from
the local fields and South Carolina's Farmer's Market. Our Dining Rooms
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Lone Star has three separate dining rooms. The largest
is Shuler's Dining
Hall, which can seat approximately 90 guests. Then there is
Dantzler's Country Store, with a seating capacity of up to 55. In addition,
a large screened porch
and courtyard
adjoin Dantzler's, providing additional space. The third dining room is
Zeagler's General
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Unique Atmosphere
When you enter the doors of Lone Star, you feel like
you are going back in time, when the hub of activities in the Old South
centered around its small rural churches and old country stores. These settings,
more than any others, were where the folks shared the news and did their
socializing. Enjoy bluegrass or country music entertainment
virtually every Saturday night, and country music and bluegrass festivals
on Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends.The four old stores or commissaries that comprise Lone Star are full of antiques, most of which were in the old buildings when they were acquired and moved to their present site. Some of the original counters and showcases are in place, and shelves are full of merchandise that had been right there in times before the Great Depression, when mules and wagons and steam locomotives represented the primary modes of transportation.
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In the courtyard in the rear of the buildings, there
is a smoke house where meat was cured, an old
whiskey still, and an outhouse
or "privy". Yesteryear, they served their needs very well; today, each makes
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Finally, there is an old 40 box post office that was tucked in the corner of Zeagler's General Store. Over the years, numerous attempts were made by the United States Postal Authority to close the small, antiquated operation, but it didn't happen. You see, the post mistress was a friend of the late Senator Strom Thurmond, and he always took care of his friends! The post office was in full operation until 1995, just two years before Zeagler's General Store closed its doors for good.