Spartanburg County

1785 –

Spartanburg at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Source: South Caroliniana Library

This collection includes A Story of Spartan Push: The Greatest Cotton Manufacturing Centre in the South: Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Its Resources by Edward P. McKissick and Spartanburg, City and County, South Carolina: Their Wonderful Attractions and Marvelous Advantages as a Place of Settlement, and for the Profitable Investment of Capital by the Spartanburg Board of Trade. The volume combines the first reprints of two early histories of the upstate's second largest city, detailing Spartanburg's economic and cultural resources in the 1890s.

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  • Title Spartanburg County
  • Coverage 1785 –
  • Author
  • Keywords northwestern section of South Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Spartan Regiment, Battle of Cowpens, one of six counties established in the South Carolina interior by the General Assembly, largest ironworks was probably the Wofford/Berwick Iron Works, Spartanburg and Union Railroad, Bivingsville Cotton Factory, Kohler Company, Spartanburg Methodist College in 1911, Spartanburg Technical College in 1963, and the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg in 1967
  • Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
  • Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
  • URL
  • Access Date April 18, 2024
  • Original Published Date
  • Date of Last Update August 24, 2022

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