Historical Markers in Fountain Inn, South Carolina
Greenville is the county seat for Greenville County
Fountain Inn is in Greenville County
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On North Main Street (State Highway 14) west of Howard Creek Drive, on the right when traveling west.
[Top Plaque]:
In Honor of our fallen hero
Courtesy of Cannon Memorial Park
[Lower Plaque]:
Although you are gone
your strength to fight for
our lives, property and our
freedom at home will always
be known.
May you . . . — — Map (db m40286) HM
On McCarter Drive (State Highway 418) at Interstate 385, on the right when traveling north on McCarter Drive.
Named in 1985 by action
of the General Assembly
and Highway Commission
in recognition of his
many years of devoted
service to the people
of Greenville County
and of the state
Former Mayor, Fountain Inn
Member
House of . . . — — Map (db m40142) HM
On McCarter Drive (State Highway 418) west of Interstate 385, on the right when traveling west.
[Front]:
In 1766-67 S.C. & N.C. negotiated with the Cherokee to establish a boundary between Indian land to the west and new settlement to the east. This north-south line ran past this point to N.C. and on to Va. In S.C. it ran north . . . — — Map (db m49086) HM
On North Main Street (State Highway 14) at East Fairview Street on North Main Street.
[Southwest]:
Don't look at me in sympathy, I'm glad I'm this way for I feel good and I'm knocking on wood, as long as I can say you just watch me peg it. You can tell by the way I leg it that I'm Peg Leg Bates, the one legged dancing man. I . . . — — Map (db m9022) HM
Near Cedar Falls Road at Turner Road, on the right when traveling north.
Pre 1700 Cedar Falls Environment
• The Piedmont foothills of South Carolina was a frontier landscape. Ancient oak and hickory trees reached for the sun creating a rich canopy that shaded the forest floor.
• The forest was interspersed . . . — — Map (db m198540) HM
On Fairview Church Road (County Route 23-451) at Phillips Lane, on the left when traveling west on Fairview Church Road.
(Front): Settlers from the Nazareth area of Spartanburg County founded this Presbyterian church in 1786 on land ceded by the Cherokee Indians in the treaty of DeWitt's Corner, 1777. It is said that three buildings, two of logs and one of . . . — — Map (db m8946) HM
On Knight Street north of Walker Street, on the right when traveling north.
(front)
Fountain Inn Cemetery was established c. 1890. Most of the land was deeded to the town by Lafayette Martin, and his son, D.R. Martin, sold an adjoining parcel in 1924 to expand the cemetery. An earlier graveyard had been located . . . — — Map (db m198321) HM
On Woodside Avenue at 1st Street, on the right when traveling south on Woodside Avenue.
(front)
Fountain Inn Cotton Mill
Fountain Inn Cotton Mill, which stood here from 1898 to 2002, was first owned and operated by brothers A.J., C.E., R.L., and W.J. Graham. Built with 5,000 spindles, it expanded to 10,000 spindles . . . — — Map (db m198269) HM
On North Main Street at Quillen Avenue, on the right when traveling east on North Main Street.
(front)
Fountain Inn High School was built in 1939 and was the town high school until 1957. It remained in use as Fountain Inn Elementary School until 1997. The City of Fountain Inn purchased the property in 1999 and at that time the . . . — — Map (db m198266) HM
On Duckett Street at Mount Zion Drive (County Road 89) on Duckett Street.
[Front]:
The Fountain Inn Rosenwald School, also known as the Fountain Inn Colored School, was a complex of several buildings built here from 1928 to 1942. The first school, a frame seven-room elementary school for grades 1-7, was a . . . — — Map (db m50524) HM
Near Cedar Falls Road at Turner Road, on the right when traveling north.
The Cherokee in South Carolina Prior to 1776
The Cherokee call themselves Tsalagi or Aniyunwiya which means “Principal People”.
There were no known permanent Native American settlements at this site. The area was a wilderness hunting . . . — — Map (db m198539) HM
Near Cedar Falls Road at Turner Road, on the right when traveling north.
Cedar Falls 1800’s
The rock shoals at Cedar Falls were used for hundreds of years by Native Americans as a hunting camp site and transportation ford to cross the Reedy River. Due to the elevation change in the river, generating waterpower . . . — — Map (db m198574) HM
Near Cedar Falls Road at Turner Road, on the right when traveling north.
Settled in the 1780’s, Fork Shoals was not a typical Southern textile mill village where residents earned their living solely at the mill. The community was primarily agrarian and the people supplemented their farm income by working at the mill. . . . — — Map (db m198572) HM
On North Main Street (State Highway 14) at Howard Drive on North Main Street.
According to tradition an ante-bellum inn with a gushing fountain in the front yard stood near here on the old stage road between Greenville and Columbia and served as a meeting place for men in the area in those days. The present town, charted Dec. . . . — — Map (db m8447) HM
On Jones Mill Road (County Road 191), on the right when traveling north.
Stone's Mill:
The first grist mill on Big Durbin Creek was built about 1813 for John Bruce (d. 1818), a veteran of the American Revolution, who also ran a sawmill and woolen mill here. The present mill, built by slave labor before 1860, is made . . . — — Map (db m43522) HM
On Hickory Tavern Road south of County Road 301, on the left when traveling north.
This house was built by T.C. Bolling c. 1840 near the old Indian boundary. C.B. Stewart, minister of nearby Fairview Presbyterian Church lived here 1859-1890. — — Map (db m239611) HM
