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https://cdn.scencyclopedia.org/sce/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/14141852/TR_City_Logo_1.jpg321146(Greenville County; 2020 pop. 8,202). The modern city developed in northern Greenville County near the intersection of the Buncombe Road and the road to Jones Gap. After the completion of the new wagon road to Asheville and Knoxville in 1794, drovers crowded the Buncombe Road in the fall, camping and staying overnight at local farmhouses […]