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Gaffney
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By Mike Stroud, April 2008 | |
| | | 1. Gaffney Marker | | |
Inscription.
The Grindal Shoals and Cherokee Ford roads crossed here when this land was orininally granted to John
Sarratt in 1799 by the State of South Carolina. Michael Gaffney purchased the land in 1804 and by
1820 Gaffney's Tavern was located at the crossroads. In 1873 John R. Logan laid out the present street
plan, and Gaffney was incorporated as a town in 1875.
Erected 1977 by Cherokee Historical and Preservation Society. (Marker Number 11-2.)
Location. 35° 4.412′ N, 81° 39.026′ W. Marker is in Gaffney, South Carolina, in Cherokee County. Marker is on North Granard Street (U.S. 29) near West Floyd Baker Boulevard (State Route 11), on the right when traveling west. Click for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 115 North Granard Street, Gaffney SC 29340, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 10 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. A different marker also named Gaffney (about 300 feet away, in a direct line); Cherokee County Confederate Monument (about 500 feet away); Michael Gaffney (about 500 feet away); Col. James Williams (about 500 feet away); Cherokee County Veterans Monument (about 500 feet away); Carnegie Library (about 600 feet away); Cherokee County WW I Rememberence (about 600 feet away); Gaffney Cornerstone (about 600 feet away); Michael Gaffney Home (about 600 feet away); First Baptist Church (about 600 feet away). Click for a list of all markers in Gaffney.| | | | 
By Brian Scott, October 3, 2009 | |
| | | 2. Gaffney Marker | | |
Also see . . . Wikipedia entry for Gaffney, S.C. Gaffney is a city located in the Upstate of South Carolina. (Submitted on April 20, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.)
Additional comments.
1. Gaffney
Gaffney, seat of Cherokee County, is a textile manufacturing town and marketing center for farmers. On "Sales Monday" the town resembles an Eastern bazaar; people gather from the surrounding countryside to trade eggs, butter, and livestock for brogans, coffee, and snuff. Held the first Monday in each month, the occasion was known for years as "swap day," "trade day," or "bone yard day." Like poor Jack in the old fairy story, some farmers bring a cow to the market and go home with things less useful than a handful of beans.
Previously called Gaffney's Old Field, the town was named for an Irishman, Michael Gaffney, who settled here in 1804. Hardly had the first little frame shacks been grouped together around the crossroads, than promoters took over Limestone Springs, which they ballyhooed as the South's Saratoga. It was the heyday of mineral therapeutic treatment and plantation owners in the Low Country, plagued every summer by malaria, which they called "country fever" and believed was caused by "miasmas," flocked here to drink the water. | | | | 
By Mike Stroud, 2008 | |
| | | 3. Gaffney Marker, with First Baptist Church in distant | | |
A $75,000 hotel was built in 1835, and the town assumed the characteristics of a gay resort. Wealthy patients paid through the nose for the sumptuousness to which they were accustomed at home; the corks of champagne bottles popped at night and race tracks were crowded in the afternoon. the town also became noted for its tilting tournaments, cockfights, and gander pullings, the last a cruel sport in which a plucked and greased gander was suspended mid-air and exposed to competing horsemen who tried to snatch off its head while riding past at a hard gallop. (Source: South Carolina: A Guide to the Palmetto State by the Federal Writers' Project (1949) pg 349.) — Submitted October 23, 2009, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina. |
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By Brian Scott, October 3, 2009 | |
| | 4. Gaffney Marker -
Looking South Along U.S. 29 | | |
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By Brian Scott, October 3, 2009 | |
| | 5. Gaffney City Hall -
Loocated on North Limestone Street | | |
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By Mike Stroud, 2008 | |
| | | 6. Travellers know Gaffney from the Peachoid Peach water tower located along Interstate 85. | | |
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Credits. This page originally submitted on April 20, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. This page has been viewed 1,029 times since then. Photos: 1. submitted on April 20, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. 2. submitted on October 23, 2009, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina. 3. submitted on April 20, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. 4, 5. submitted on October 23, 2009, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina. 6. submitted on April 20, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. • Craig Swain was the editor who published this page.
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