Bishopville honors Felix “Doc” Blanchard, the 1945 Heisman Trophy winner and West Point football star, with a downtown monument. Blanchard later became an Air Force pilot, giving the small town an unusually substantial memorial to a local sports legend.
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Source: scpictureproject.org/lee-county/doc-blanchard-memorial.html