Editing Bishopville, South Carolina (section)

==Arts and culture==
[[Pearl Fryar]]'s [[Topiary]] Garden is located in Bishopville. The {{convert|3|acre|m2|adj=on}} garden is visited annually by many tourists. Fryar and his carefully sculptured topiary garden has been featured many times on television specials and in dozens of magazines. His garden offers {{convert|3|acre|m2}} of trees and shrubs formed into fanciful spirals, three-dimensional pieces, pom poms, and other extraordinary shapes. Fryar is known nationally for live topiary sculptures. He's also won many awards as well as being named as South Carolina Ambassador for Economic Development by Mark Sanford in 2003. Fryar revealed that all he wanted was to have a nice yard and win yard of the month from his hometown of Bishopville, SC.

[[Lee State Park]] is one of the best-known parks in Lee County. Located at 487 Loop Road in Bishopville, this park host's just about everything from river fishing, boating, nature trails, show ring, and stables. The park also offers educational programs like pine needle basket weaving and owl prowls.  Year-round, during daylight hours, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers built the Park during the Great Depression. This attractive park is approximately {{convert|2,839|acre|km2}} of land. This park offers picnics in shelters and camping. Picnic tables and serene environments are stationed around the {{convert|5.6|mi|km}} of Lynches River that's owned by Lee State Park.

The South Carolina Cotton Museum and Lee County Veterans Museum are located next door to each other in Bishopville. The Cotton Museum preserves the history of cotton culture and the legacy of a way of life both long gone and very much a part of the present.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sccottontrail.org/bishopville.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=August 27, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130610082711/http://www.sccottontrail.org/bishopville.html |archive-date=June 10, 2013 }}</ref> The museum has the world's largest boll weevil.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sccotton.org/4701.html |title=South Carolina Cotton Museum |website=Sccotton.org |access-date=April 14, 2016}}</ref> The Lee County Veterans Museum was designed, built and furnished by veterans of Lee County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sccotton.org/20412.html |title=South Carolina Cotton Museum |publisher=Sccotton.org |access-date=April 14, 2016}}</ref> The museum preserves and tells the history of US wars and conflicts, as well as the stories and lives of local veterans.

===Monster===
{{Main|Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp}}
This town is known for the alleged sightings of a [[Reptilian humanoid#In cryptozoology|reptile-like monster]], known as "The Lizard Man", near a swamp called Scape Ore Swamp. It has supposedly frightened people and damaged some cars.  At one point there was a one million dollar reward for anyone who could find and present "Lizard Man".