Search results
Greenville is the anchor city of Upstate South Carolina, an economic and cultural region with an estimated population of 1.59 million as of 2023. [6] Greenville was established in 1797 and incorporated in 1831.
As much as we love to talk about present day Greenville, our cool little city has quite a history. For centuries, this part of South Carolina served as hunting grounds for the Cherokee Indians. It wasn’t until 1770 that the first settler of Western origin established a presence here.
Read through the history of Greenville, its districts, its cemeteries, and the surrounding areas.
The town was a Unionist stronghold in 1850, but a combination of national events—John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry and Abraham Lincoln’s election among them—and fiery speeches supporting Secession by University President James Clement Furman and others led Greenville to vote for Secession in December 1860.
17 maj 2016 · Learn about the origins, development, and challenges of Greenville, the fourth largest city in South Carolina. Explore its role in the textile industry, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New Deal.
The city of Greenville had its origin in the Indian trading station and mill established between 1760 and 1770 by Richard Pearis at Reedy River Falls. In 1797, Lemual James Alston, a prominent resident, offered a site for the court house in Greenville County.
3 paź 2024 · Greenville is the home of Furman University, founded in 1826 as a Baptist theological school at Edgefield and moved to Greenville in 1850, Bob Jones University (1927), a Fundamentalist Bible college that moved to Greenville in 1947, and Greenville Technical College (1962).
