City Directories and History: Reported to have been constructed in 1892. This is one of Clinton’s finest homes and an historic anchor for the South Broad Street area of Clinton.
The new railroad connections began to change the towns of Clinton and Cross Hill from wayward frontier towns to commercial and social hubs within the county. In 1884, M.S. Bailey opened Clinton’s first Bank on West Pitts Street. Between 1884 and 1894, Clinton’s residents built a new hotel, two railroad passenger depots, a bank, several one story brick commercial buildings that housed drug stores and several general merchandise stores, and offices. Despite this evident growth, the population only
increased by 50 persons.
The weekly Clinton Enterprise paper began operation in 1875, competing with the older Laurensville Herald and Laurens Advertising commercial district was ringed with small, one-story story homes of the county seat. In the late 1880s and 1890s, residential building remained scattered throughout town, with no clear establishment of neighborhoods. Successful businessmen and lawyers were building homes on and near Hampton, Woodrow, and Broad Streets, including J.W. Copeland (site 1796), owner of Copeland’s Store (Site 1634); D.E. Tribble (Figure 10)(site 1694), owner of D.E. Tribble Bldg. Supply and undertakers (site 1642); M.S. Bailey, owner of the local bank and president of Clinton Cotton Mills; and W town of Laurens. The burgeoning D.E. Tribble House president of M.S. Bailey & Sons bank. Eastern Laurens County Historical and Architectural Survey, SCDAH – 2003
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