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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Greenville County, South Carolina
Greenville is the county seat for Greenville County
Adjacent to Greenville County, South Carolina
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On Gibbs Shoals Road (County Road 164) 0.1 miles north of East Suber Road (County Road 540), on the right when traveling south.
[Marker Front]:
Early White Settlement
By 1768 Indian traders and land speculators Richard Pearis (d. 1794) and Jacob Hite of Virginia acquired large tracts from the Cherokees in present-day Greenville County. Though royal . . . — — Map (db m24254) HM
On Gilreath Mill Road (State Highway 101), on the left when traveling north.
State of South Carolina
Department of Archives and History
Gilreath's Mill
has been entered on
The National Register of Historic Places
by the
United States Department of the Interior under provisions of the National
Historic . . . — — Map (db m11602) HM
On North Line Street at East Church Street, in the median on North Line Street.
This marks the eastern boundary (the present Greenville-Spartanburg county line) between the Cherokee Nation and the province of South Carolina from the end of the Cherokee War (1759-61) until 1777. In that year, the Treaty of DeWitt's Corner . . . — — Map (db m206349) HM
On Wade Hampton Blvd. (U.S. 29) near Baileyview Street, on the right when traveling east.
This marks the eastern boundary (the present Greenville-Spartanburg county line) between the Cherokee Nation and the province of South Carolina from the end of the Cherokee War (1759-61) until 1777. In that year, the Treaty of DeWitt's Corner . . . — — Map (db m11264) HM
On State Highway 14 at Berry Mill Road, on the right when traveling north on State Highway 14. Reported missing.
On this site in 1820 John Weaver established a yarn mill. It changed owners several times until about 1900 when Spartan Commodor Berry tore down and built on the same foundation. Berry operated a cotton gin, grist mill and saw mill. In 1912 he . . . — — Map (db m7939) HM
Near Brushy Creek Rd (State Highway 166) near James Road.
In Memory of Mike Garfield Friend of Children • Community Servant Lover of Greer • Dream Builder Visionary for Kids Planet and Kids Planet Too Through the laughter of those at play, Mike's legacy endures. His character and his dreams will . . . — — Map (db m12284) HM
On East Poinsett Street (State Highway 101/290) at Depot Street, on the right when traveling west on East Poinsett Street.
(front)
The Bankhead National Hwy. Association was formed in 1916 with the goal of creating a transcontinental highway that would run from Washington, D.C. to San Diego, CA. When completed in 1920, it became the second transcontinental . . . — — Map (db m198225) HM
On South Main Street (State Highway 14) at Victoria Street on South Main Street.
Discovered about 1930
by Henry Clark
near Frohawk Creek on property
belonging to J.T. Moon. Most likely
used to crack and grind corn and acorns
into meal by a band of Lower Cherokee,
this mortar is highly unusual because
of its massive . . . — — Map (db m30810) HM
Four generations of the Suber family have owned and operated a waterpowered grist mill on Princess Creek, a branch of the Enoree River, since shortly after the Civil War. James A. Suber (1826-1923) ran a sawmill and whiskey still a short distance . . . — — Map (db m56839) HM
This bridge, built in 1909, is the last extant covered bridge in S.C. Built by Charles Irwin Willis (1878–1966), it was named for Alexander Lafayette Campbell (1836–1920), who owned and operated a grist mill here for many years. . . . — — Map (db m8507) HM
In the earliest of times the rock shoal upstream of the bridge was used as a ford until a flat bridge was built across Beaverdam Creek. In Monday, August 24, 1908 starting at 7:00 p.m., twenty inches of rain fell during the next twenty-four . . . — — Map (db m27555) HM
Many generations of area residents have treasured Campbell's Covered Bridge as a local icon and place to enjoy Beaverdam Creek on a hot day, meet neighbors while your corn is ground, or as a quiet place to court your sweetheart.
There are . . . — — Map (db m37498) HM
On Gap Creek Road, 0.5 miles west of Devils Fork Road, on the left when traveling north.
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Gap Creek Baptist Church was established in 1840 and meetings were held in a log building that stood nearby to Gap Creek. In 1850 the church was a founding member of the Enoree River Association. A second church was built c.1859 . . . — — Map (db m198718) HM
On Laurens Road (U.S. 276), on the right when traveling south.
Built 1869
Laurel Creek Church
Rebuilt 1938
Trustees
G.C. Franklin
Jas A. Tolbert
J.N. Brown
R.C. Means
Rev. N.E. Franklin-PC
Rev. D.S. Curry D.S.
Laurel Creek U. M. Church
New Addition 2005
. . . — — Map (db m10889) HM
This area was settled soon after the Revolution, and a community grew up here on the road from Greenville to Laurens. It was later known as Butler’s Crossroads for Willis W. Butler, who acquired a tract including the intersection of the Laurens . . . — — Map (db m60344) HM
On East Butler Road near 100 East Butler Road, on the left when traveling west.
This church, founded around 1867 as Poplar Springs Methodist Episcopal Church South, was Mauldin's first church and it operated the community's first school. The name was changed in 1956 to Mauldin United Methodist Church. — — Map (db m16003) HM
On Murray Drive at West Butler Road (County Route 107), on the left when traveling south on Murray Drive.
The history of the Gosnell cabin originates 200 years ago. The cabin, with original dimensions of twenty-five by eighteen feet, was built out of twelve-inch thick by eight-inch wide beams of heart pine, and it was built to last.
Gresham . . . — — Map (db m30397) HM
On McKelvey Road at Fork Shoals Church Road, on the right when traveling south on McKelvey Road.
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Fork Shoals Baptist Church traces its origins to at least 1789, when Horse Creek Church was organized as a member of the Bethel Association. Local tradition, however, places the date earlier, between 1777-1780. Fork Shoals first . . . — — Map (db m198578) HM
On McKelvey Road at Fork Shoals Church Road, on the right when traveling north on McKelvey Road.
(front)
Originally associated with Fork Shoals Baptist Church, Fork Shoals School was in operation by 1877. A private Fork Shoals H.S. was built on the eastern side of the Reedy River in 1908. A two-story frame building was then built . . . — — Map (db m198581) HM
[Front]:
This church, which takes its name from a nearby salt lick, was founded in 1882. Mrs. Ellen C. Woodside (1838-1906) worked with Rev. C.L. Stewart to organize services on her farm in 1880-81. A commission from the Enoree . . . — — Map (db m29455) HM
On Old Pelzer Road at Spring Lake Road, on the right when traveling north on Old Pelzer Road.
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Garrison Cemetery is named for the Garrison family, who were among the first European settlers in the area that became Piedmont, SC. The patriarch of the family, David Garrison, settled here in the 1780s and operated a grist mill . . . — — Map (db m198599) HM
On County Road 182, on the right when traveling north.
[West Inscription]
This monument
is erected by the
Piedmont
Manufacturing Company
in commemoration of
Henry Pinckney Hammett
its originator and for
eighteen years its
President and Treasurer
[South Inscription]
. . . — — Map (db m126267) HM
On County Road 182, on the left when traveling north.
[West Inscription]:
James Lawrence Orr
Born Aug. 29, 1852
Died Feb. 26, 1905
[South Inscription]:
Representative in the Legislature.
Fearless and efficient Solicitor
of Eight Circuit for seven years.
An able . . . — — Map (db m40139) HM
On County Road 182, on the left when traveling south.
Born in Piedmont, South Carolina
August 8, 1938
Earned the Medal of Honor
while serving as Staff Sergeant
Company D, 2nd Battalion, 501st
Infantry, 101st Airborne Division
on February 21, 1968 near
Hue, Vietnam
His other . . . — — Map (db m100797) HM
On Augusta Road (U.S. 25) at Ray Road on Augusta Road.
Pepper School, established in 1914-15, was built on land donated "for the children of my community" by William A. Pepper (1829-1914). The school, with three teachers and about 75-100 students in grades 1-7 for much of its history, closed after . . . — — Map (db m37521) HM
On Greenville Street at Old Bessie Road, on the left when traveling north on Greenville Street.
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Rose Hill cemetery was established in 1876 by the Piedmont Manufacturing Co., an early textile mill that began production in that same year. Originally known as Piedmont Cemetery, the earliest known burial dates to 1877. The . . . — — Map (db m198583) HM
On County Road 182, on the left when traveling north.
President and Treasurer of the
Piedmont Manufacturing Company
President 1905-1923
Director 1896-1935
Industralist • Humanitarian • Friendly
Just — — Map (db m40137) HM
Front: The original Cooley's Bridge, built across the Saluda River in 1835-36 to replace a ferry, stood about 150 yds. above the present bridge over S.C. Hwy. 247. It was built for Hiram Cooley (ca. 1796-1864), a cotton planter who owned more . . . — — Map (db m9334) HM
On Geer Highway/North Main Street (U.S. 276) at Renfrew Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Geer Highway/North Main Street.
Born in 1878 about 1/2 mile SW, Watson was a pioneer in behavioral psychology. He graduated from Furman University, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, served as president of the American Psychological Association, and professor and . . . — — Map (db m9132) HM
On Fork Shoals Road south of Old Hundred Road (County Road 565), on the right when traveling north.
Here along the south side of the creek to Reedy River was fought, Dec. 22, 1775, the Battle of Great Cane Break, between a force of South Carolinians under Colonel William Thompson and a band of Tories under Patrick Cuningham. The Tories were . . . — — Map (db m97258) HM
On Holland Road at Balcome Boulevard, on the right when traveling south on Holland Road.
Bethel church was organized in 1801 by Bishop Francis Asbury. At first, meetings were held in the homes of John Bramlett, Solomon Holland and Deavoreaux Yeargin. Later, Mr. Bramlett gave four acres of land on which the Bethel church house was built. . . . — — Map (db m30904) HM
On Holland Road at Balcome Boulevard on Holland Road.
This historical graveyard has graves dating back to the 1800s. Many of the founders of the church are buried in the graveyard. They include the Yeargins, the Bramletts, and the Hollands as well as many more of the first members of the church. . . . — — Map (db m30908) HM
On Holland Road at Balcome Boulevard, on the right when traveling north on Holland Road.
On this site in 1861 the men of Bethel Community trained before entering the War Between the States. Known as the Jeff Davis Guard, they became Company F of General Wade Hampton's Legion and fought with distinction in many battles including the . . . — — Map (db m30854) HM
On Moore Street east of Cook Street, on the right when traveling east.
(front)
Cedar Grove Baptist Church
According to tradition, this African-American church was organized by Rev. Tom Jones shortly after the Civil War. It held its first services in a brush arbor, then built its first permanent church . . . — — Map (db m168395) HM
In the twelfth century, when travel to spiritual centers such as Jerusalem became too difficult, cathedrals became substitute centers of pilgrimage for Christians in western Europe. On such pilgrimages, the walking of a labyrinth sometimes became . . . — — Map (db m50202) HM
On Fork Shoals Road (State Highway 23-146) south of Old Hundred Road (State Highway 23-459).
[Marker Front]:
This farm has been owned by the Hopkins family since 1834, when John Hopkins (1793-1837) purchased it from William Toney. The Greek Revival main house was built ca. 1840, with later additions ca. 1890 and ca. 1925. Hopkins' . . . — — Map (db m9068) HM
On Adams Mill Road, on the left when traveling north.
This house was built in 1823 by Dr. Thomas Collins Austin (1790-1883), physician and planter. Austin attended the Medical University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and practiced medicine here for sixty years. His office, just . . . — — Map (db m48490) HM
On Woodruff Road, 0.1 miles south of Granary Drive, on the right when traveling south.
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Old Pilgrim Baptist Church
This church was founded in 1868 by black members of nearby Clear Spring Baptist Church who named their new church Pilgrim Baptist Church. Rev. John Abraham, their first pastor, held services in a . . . — — Map (db m198265) HM
On South Main Street, on the left when traveling north.
Old Stage Road
The town of Simpsonville grew up around a stagecoach stop nearby operated by Thomas Goldsmith (1788-1868). Goldsmith's house, on the Old Stage Road from Laurens to Greenville, was near a crossroads where the Old Stage Road met an . . . — — Map (db m50569) HM
On Northeast Main Street (State Highway 14), on the right when traveling north.
[Front]:
This town grew up around a stagecoach stop from Laurens to Greenville. For many years the community was known as "Plain," the name given to its first post office, opened in 1838 with Jesse T. Cook as postmaster. It was later . . . — — Map (db m50525) HM
On West Curtis Street near South Street (County Road 669), on the right when traveling west.
Simpsonville Cotton Mill
This mill, opened in 1908, was built after several leading men of Simpsonville asked Edward F. Woodside of the Pelzer Manufacturing Co. to help them establish a textile mill. The Simpsonville Cotton Mill, with Woodside . . . — — Map (db m60339) HM
On Academy Street at East College Street, on the right when traveling north on Academy Street.
(front)
Simpsonville Elementary
This school was built in 1939 with local funds and with federal funds from the Public Works Administration and the Works Projects Administration. It was the fourth school, and the third public . . . — — Map (db m168361) HM
On Academy Street (County Highway 545) at East Curtis Street (State Highway 417), on the right when traveling north on Academy Street.
(front)
The Classical Revival building, constructed in 1940, was the Simpsonville Branch of the Greenville County Library until 1997. The first town library started ca. 1915 when Miss Nannie Cox, a literature teacher, placed books in the . . . — — Map (db m168359) HM
On Southeast Main Street (State Highway 14) just north of Crisp Street, on the right when traveling west.
Simpsonville UMC was organized in April 1916 as Simpsonville Methodist Church, South. The congregation originally met in the Forum, the community building of the Woodside Mill. The first pastor was J.L. Singleton. In 1917, members pledged to . . . — — Map (db m168220) HM
On Academy Street (County Highway 545) at Park Drive (County Highway 219), on the right when traveling north on Academy Street.
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Established in the 1840s as a family cemetery, the two and one-half acre parcel was donated to Simpsonville First Baptist Church by J.H. Todd in 1890. The church deeded the property to the Town of Simpsonville in 1929. The stone . . . — — Map (db m168363) HM
On West Georgia Road, 0.2 miles north of Stenhouse Road.
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Standing Springs Baptist Church was organized in 1818 as an arm of Fork Shoals Baptist Church. There were te0n charter members and Rev. Nathan Berry was the first pastor. Early meetings were held in the home of James Cox and the . . . — — Map (db m168369) HM
On Holland Road at Balcome Boulevard (County Route 332), on the right when traveling north on Holland Road.
The old arbor was the first building used by the people of Bethel. It is believed to have been built in the early 1800s. The land on which the arbor and church were built was given by John Bramlett, Solomon Holland and Benjamin Holland. Reunions . . . — — Map (db m153769) HM
On Holland Road at Balcome Boulevard on Holland Road.
The old oak tree is among the last of several large trees on the Bethel United Methodist Church property. These large trees, some dating to the period before the Civil War, have been witnesses to the many activities and changes at Bethel. These . . . — — Map (db m30898) HM
On Fork Shoals Road (State Highway 23-146) near Old Hundred Road (State Highway 23-459).
Toney's Store
William Toney, prominent in business and civic affairs in early Greenville and Greenville County, ran a store here 1816-1829. The store was near the boundary established in 1767 between Cherokee land to the west and new settlement . . . — — Map (db m11002) HM
[Left Marker]
Samuel Slater
1768-1835
Founded
the first Cotton Mill
in America
1790
Founded
the First Sunday School
in America
1799
[Right Marker]
This Building
Dedicated
By H. Nelson Slater
To the . . . — — Map (db m21005) HM
On Wade Hampton Boulevard (U.S. 29) at Artillery Road, on the left when traveling north on Wade Hampton Boulevard.
This camp, named in honor of John Sevier, Lieut. Col., N.C. militia, 1777, Col., 1781, Brig. Gen., U.S.P.A., 1796, was approved as cantonment site May 21, 1917. The 30th Division trained here from August 28, 1917 to May 1, 1918; the 81st, from May . . . — — Map (db m10475) HM
Near East Main Street at Old Chick Springs Road. Reported missing.
[Front]:
Dr. Burwell Chick opened a resort at these mineral springs in 1840. A spacious hotel and cottages accommodated a large number of summer guests. After Dr. Chick's death, the springs were operated by his sons Pettus and Reuben, and . . . — — Map (db m22383) HM
On Mountain View Rd., on the right when traveling north.
"Where the mountains rise in beauty"
The Grand Old Mountain View State
High School stood on this spot. From
1924 to 1954 some 2000 students
passed through her doors. This
memorial was erected in 1966 by the
Mountain View Alumni Association . . . — — Map (db m10194) HM
On Mill Street at Hill Street, on the right when traveling east on Mill Street.
(side 1)
This is one of more than fifty houses built in 1923-24 for employees of Southern Bleachery, a textile processing plant opened at the east end of Mill St. in 1924. The mill village and plant were designed by J.E. Sirrine & Co. . . . — — Map (db m220023) HM
On West Main Street west of Taylors Road, on the right when traveling west.
(front)
Taylors First Baptist Church traces its origins to the years of the American Civil War. The church organized as Chick Springs Church on August 28, 1864 at the conclusion of a week of camp meetings. The congregation first met near . . . — — Map (db m198227) HM
On North Tigerville Road at Route 414 on North Tigerville Road.
[Front]:
Tigerville got its name from early settlers who settled here shortly after the Revolution. They called bobcats they saw here "tygers," and named the nearby Tyger River, Head of Tyger Baptist Church, later Tyger Baptist Church, . . . — — Map (db m18044) HM
Near State Highway 414, on the left when traveling west.
This original stone which formed one of the four
Pillars of the first building of Tyger Baptist
Church, the first in this area of South Carolina
near the head of Tyger River, about the year 1800.
I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole . . . — — Map (db m17381) HM
On Fews Bridge Road (State Highway 113), on the right when traveling east.
Named in 1984 in honor
of
pioneer settler of Upper
Greenville County
who entered this state
from Georgia in 1787
and whose descendants
have lived on these lands
ever since.
Mr. Few is said to have
built the first bridge
and . . . — — Map (db m10706) HM
On North Southerlin Rd, 0.4 miles east of North Tigerville Road (County Road 117), on the left when traveling east.
The log home of David Barton and wife Nancy Barrett was established near this site circa 1785. The tract was “west of Old Indian Boundary on both sides of Neal's Fork of Tyger River,” and ultimately consisted of 424 acres. Today Neal's . . . — — Map (db m43294) HM
On Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway (State Highway 11) at Lima Baptist Church Road, on the right when traveling west on Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway.
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Among the oldest surviving buildings in Greenville County, the John H. Goodwin House originated as a 2~room log cabin built c. 1793 by Robert Cooke. It is significant for its evolution into a 2~story dogtrot and, finally, the . . . — — Map (db m177953) HM
On North Main Street (U.S. 276) at Henderson Drive (County Road 934), on the right when traveling north on North Main Street.
(side 1)
This house was the boyhood home and birthplace of John L. Plyler (1894-1966), a Furman University alumnus and Harvard Law School graduate who served as an attorney, judge, and dean of the Furman University Law School before . . . — — Map (db m85937) HM
On Tigerville Road, 1.3 miles east of U.S. 25, on the right when traveling east.
On this site
stood the home of
Laodicea Langston Springfield
("Dicey")
1759 - 1837
Heroine of
the American Revolution.
To her daring and courage
many patriots owed their lives.
This rock was
a hearthstone in her home. . . . — — Map (db m10301) HM
This church, established in 1882, grew out of services held by itinerant Baptist ministers in a nearby log school, encouraged by Ann Pool Neves (1809-1888) and her husband Alsey A Neves and her son W.P.Z.F. Neves (1835-1917) deeded three acres for a . . . — — Map (db m50255) HM
On Jackson Grove Road (State Highway S23-262), on the left when traveling east.
[Front]:
William Preston Few, prominent Southern educator, was born 1.6 mi. NE in 1867. Few received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1896 and joined the faculty of Trinity College, Durham, N.C., that same year. He became Trinity's fifth . . . — — Map (db m9133) HM
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