Spartanburg is the county seat for Spartanburg County
Moore is in Spartanburg County
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On Stillhouse Road (State Highway 196) at U.S. 221 on Stillhouse Road.
1½ miles SE is Walnut Grove, home of Margaret Catherine Moore Barry (1752–1823). Local tradition says she was known as “Kate Barry” and acted as a scout for the Patriots before the Battle of Cowpens, Jan. 17, 1781. With her . . . — — Map (db m9912) HM
On State Highway 417 near Bethany Church Road, on the left when traveling south.
On Dec. 18, 1933, work began on the J.L. Berry Gully, 1.5 miles S.E. as part of the South Tyger River Erosion Control Demonstration Project by the USDI Soil Erosion Service, Dr. T.S. Bule, Project Director. This project was a forerunner of the . . . — — Map (db m13328) HM
On Reidville Road (State Highway 296) at Nazareth Church Road (State Highway 661), on the right when traveling north on Reidville Road.
This Presbyterian Church, located about .4 miles SE, was organized soon after 1766 by Scotch-Irish who settled the area. From Revolutionary War days the congregation has been influential in religious, educational, and civic affairs of Spartanburg . . . — — Map (db m9915) HM
In 1765 Narareth’s first meeting house was built on this site. Made of logs cut from surrounding forest, pulpit of clapboard, seats of crude wooden plank, without backs and dirt floor. — — Map (db m121926) HM
Erected on or near this site between 1785-1790 a larger and better frame house of worship replaced the old log meeting house. Used for a time as a session house. — — Map (db m121925) HM
On U.S. 221, 0.1 miles north of Moore-Duncan Highway (State Highway 290), on the left when traveling north.
Believed built in 1786 by Thomas Moore, Revolutionary soldier, brigadier general in the War of 1812 and a member of Congress, Fredonia was later owned by Andrew B. Moore, earliest known doctor in this region, and Thomas J. Moore, Confederate . . . — — Map (db m13191) HM
On Stillhouse Road (State Highway 196) at U.S. 221 on Stillhouse Road.
Charles and Mary Moore built the Manor House in 1765 1½ miles SE on land granted by George III in 1763. They founded Rocky Spring Academy (1770-1850) the first in Spartanburg County. In a raid in 1780 "Bloody" Bill Cunningham, a Tory, murdered . . . — — Map (db m9914) HM