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Centerville Township was named from an ancient settlement, which once promised to become a village. It was located
Anderson Co. Route Map – 1852
almost in the center of the district of Anderson. Colonel Elias Earle from Centerville, Maryland, was given a large tract of land for services rendered in the Revolutionary War and he built a home on it between Anderson and Townville, naming it “Centerville.” A mill to grind wheat and com was one of the first things to be erected in the new settlement; soon followed a blacksmith shop, a saw mill, a general store which probably also housed the post office. Colonel Earle was postmaster.
Earle’s gun factory was located on Six-and-Twenty Creek, but flooding of the creek in 1908 washed away most of the ancient rubbish. After the flooding, great hammers and shafting which had been buried a century were uncovered. Another industry established at Centerville by Colonel Earle was the raising of silkworms and the manufacture of silk. Haynes Whitaker later owned the Earle property.
(Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC)
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