Spartanburg County
45 places on the trail: 44 highway markers, 1 battlefields and state sites.
Era of American Revolution (1764-1783)
- 42-04"Kate Barry"One and a half miles SE is Walnut Grove, home of Margaret Catherine Moore Barry (1752-1823). Local tradition says she wa...
- 42-23Battle of Earle's FordAfter British forces took Charleston in May 1780, they set up outposts in the backcountry and attempted to control the s...
- 42-10Early Iron WorksNear here on Lawson's Fork, during the American Revolution, the S.C. government as part of the war effort supported Jose...
- 42-08Fort PrinceLocated nearby, this fort protected early settlers from the Indians and served as camp for a detachment of militia en ro...
- 23-04Indian Boundary LineThis marks the eastern boundary (present Greenville-Spartanburg county line) between the Cherokee Nation and the Provinc...
- 42-14Nazareth ChurchThis Presbyterian Church, located about .4 mile SE, was organized soon after 1766 by Scotch-Irish who settled the area. ...
South Carolina in the Early Republic (1784-1815)
Antebellum (1816-1860)
- 42-11Calvary ChurchThe Reverend John D. McCullough was the first rector of this Episcopal Church, which was established in 1848. The origin...
- 42-24Central Methodist ChurchOrganized in 1837 as the first congregation of any denomination in Spartanburg, when this site was deeded to nine truste...
- 42-13Evins-Bivings HouseAccording to family tradition, this house was built in 1854 by the Bivings family, local textile pioneers. In 1869, the ...
- 42-07Grave of William WalkerWilliam "Singin' Billy" Walker (1809-1875) was the author of Southern Harmony, a collection of religious music employing...
- 42-44Lanford Family CemeteryLanford Family Cemetery was founded in 1822. The first person buried here was James Lanford (c.1740-1822), a Revolutiona...
- 42-22Mount Zion Baptist Church CemeteryMount Zion Baptist Church, founded as early as 1804 as an affiliated branch of Bethlehem Baptist Church, was formally es...
- 42-37New Prospect Baptist ChurchThe congregation of New Prospect Baptist Church formally organized on June 3, 1820, with a membership of twenty-six. The...
- 42-19Old Rutherford RoadThis old roadbed is the last extant portion of the Rutherford Road, which appears in Robert Mills's 1825 Atlas of the St...
- 42-33The Church of the AdventThe Church of the Advent dates from the 1840s, when Episcopal services were held in Glenn Springs, Limestone Springs, an...
- 42-18Wofford CollegeWofford College, chartered in 1851, was established by a $100,000 bequest from the Rev. Benjamin Wofford of Spartanburg,...
New South (1877-1913)
- 42-30Apalache MillThis site was the location of active mill operations from 1837-2007. The core of the current mill building was completed...
- 42-27Clifton Baptist ChurchThis church, originally called Clifton Baptist Church, was founded in 1881 with ten charter members and Rev. T.J. Taylor...
- 42-02Converse CollegeFounded by citizens of Spartanburg in 1889 for the liberal education of women. Named for Dexter Edgar Converse, pioneer ...
- 42-28Converse HeightsConverse Heights is one of Spartanburg’s earliest suburbs, with most of the houses built between 1906 and 1950. This are...
- 42-17Cowpens DepotThis passenger and freight depot was built in 1896 by the Southern Railway and was originally 1 block N. at Brown & Chur...
- 42-43Dean Street SchoolThis building began as Dean Street School, a two-story wood frame structure built in 1891 to serve African American resi...
- 42-36Episcopal Church of the EpiphanyThe Episcopal Church of the Epiphany was est. 1893 as a mission to Spartanburg’s African American residents. Rev. Theodo...
- 42-35Little AfricaLittle Africa was one of a number of independent African American communities formed across the South after the Civil Wa...
- 42-16Old City CemeteryThis cemetery, established on this site about 1900 as the Spartanburg Colored Cemetery, includes many graves moved here ...
- 42-20Shiloh Methodist ChurchThis church, organized late in the eighteenth century, held its first services in a brush arbor and later constructed a ...
- 42-15Spartanburg Methodist CollegeWhile minister of Duncan Memorial Methodist Church, the Rev. David E. Camak established the Textile Industrial Institute...
- 42-32The "Hub City"The first rail line to serve the Hub City, the Spartanburg & Union R.R., was completed in 1859. In 1873, the Atlanta & C...
- 42-31Tucapau MillTucapau Mill opened in 1896 on the Middle Tyger River at Penney Shoals by investors including John Montgomery. The mill ...
World War I and the Interwar Period (1913-1941)
- 42-2515th N.Y. InfantryThe 15th N.Y. Infantry, a volunteer National Guard unit of African American soldiers, arrived here Oct. 10, 1917, to tra...
- 42-05Camp WadsworthThis camp, named in honor of Brigadier General James Samuel Wadsworth, U.S.V., was approved June 1917 as a cantonment si...
- 42-06First Erosion Control Work in the SoutheastOn 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 ...
- 42-12Hampton Heights Historic DistrictLocated one block west, this historic district was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 because o...
- 42-34Montgomery BuildingThe Montgomery Building was completed in 1924. The 10-story Chicago skeletal frame construction skyscraper was designed ...
- 42-38Spartanburg General HospitalAuthorized in 1917 by the state and opened in 1921 by the county, Spartanburg General Hospital (SGH) was housed in this ...
- 42-42Trinity ChurchIn 1922 residents of the Converse Heights neighborhood held a series of meetings to discuss forming a new Methodist chur...
World War II and After (1941-present)
- 42-40Bethune High SchoolBethune High School opened in 1953. It was housed in a brick facility built at this site and funded by the S.C. equaliza...
- 42-26Camp CroftCamp Croft, constructed in 1940-41, was named for Greenville native Maj. Gen. Edward Croft (1875-1938). The pillars from...
- 42-41First Baptist ChurchThis church’s oldest record is from September 16, 1787. Members first worshipped at a site 1½ mi. NW, deeded to them by ...
- 42-29National Assn. of Soil Conservation DistrictsThe first office of the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts (NASCD) was located in the Montgomery Buildi...
- 42-01Reidville Public SchoolBuilt in 1948 on the site of Reidville Female College (operated 1871 to 1901), one of two private schools founded in 185...