Martha Collins and Susan Crate Bynum residents

A part of Chatham County could be coming down. For more than a hundred years, the water tower has watched over Bynum. It saw the mill workers come and go, children growing up in mill houses, laundry flapping on clotheslines, and muddy baseball games played in the patch of field just beneath it. It was there for the Friday night lights, the church picnics, the first kisses, the long summer evenings when a worn-out ball hit the grass and someone’s grandpa shouted “safe!” from the porch. Martha Collins and Susan Crate of Bynum joined Jeff Hamlin to discuss why the tower could come down.