City Directories and History: This historic map, on the wall of the S.C. Dept. of Archives and History, exhibits some of the numerous locations across S.C. and Spartanburg County, which have been nearly forgotten. Rural names and forgotten places recorded on this map, have been extracted and placed in alphabetical order to assist researchers. Also see the entire map under the History Thread link – right.
INDEX OF NAMES – Does not include roads and rivers…., names are often spelled differently than contemporary spellings.
Anderson’s |
Antioch Church |
Arrowwood P.O. |
Bethel Church |
Bivings Cotton Factory |
Bivingsville P.O. |
Black Jack P.O. |
Boiling Springs |
Brodeman’s |
Buck Creek Church |
Buck Creek P.O. |
Camps Bridge |
Cannon, G. |
Cannon’s Store P.O. |
Cashville P.O. |
Cedar Spring Asylum |
Cedar Springs P.O. |
Chapel |
Cherokee Springs |
Clarksville |
Colter’s Bridge |
Cowpen Furnace |
Cowpens Battle Ground |
Cowpen’s P.O. |
Crawfordsville P.O. |
Cross Anchor P.O. |
Crowsville P.O. |
Dadd’s or Dodds Tavern |
Damascus P.O. |
Earlesville P.O. |
Emore’s P.O. |
Eyton’s |
Fingerville Cotton Factory |
Fort Prince P.O. |
Gilky Mountain |
Glen Springs or Glenn Springs |
Harris’s |
Hill’s Cotton Factory |
Hobbysville P.O. |
Holly Spring Church |
Hurricane P.O. The RH Herald reported on March 31, 1881 – “About a year ago, Mr. Converse purchased the old rolling mill site at Hurricane Shoals on the Pacolet River about seven miles from Spartanburg. The previous owner was Mr. Bobo, stock for a new mill was sold for $200,000., which was later increased to $500,000. The place will now be known as Clifton. The mill is three stories and measures 175 ft – 72 feet. They are using a Hercules Turbine Water Wheel made at Holyoke, Mass.” |
Jackson Hill P.O. |
Landrum Homeplace |
Leitner, E.C. |
Limestone Springs P.O. |
Linders Homeplace |
Mabery’s |
McBridesville P.O. |
McDaniels |
McElry’s |
Millers |
Moore’s Cotton Factory |
Morgans |
Mount Zion P.O. |
Mountain Shoals P.O. |
Musgrove’s |
Nazareth Church |
Nesbitt’s |
New Home Church |
New Hope P.O. |
New Prospect P.O. |
Old Fort |
Poolesville P.O. |
Prince’s Fort |
Providence Church |
Rogers Bridge P.O. |
Ross |
Rowland’s |
S.C. Iron Company – Pacolet River |
Sarratt’s |
Smith’s Store P.O. |
Spartanburg |
Store |
Thickety Fork P.O. |
Thickety Mountain |
Thompson’s Mill |
Turner’s |
Van Patten’s Factory |
Vernon, Dr. |
Walker’s |
Walnut Grove P.O. |
White’s |
Wilkinsville P.O. |
Winsmith, Dr. |
Woodruff’s |
Yarborough’s Mill |
Zion Hill Church |
The Rock Hill Herald reported on Jan. 29, 1885 – “Mr. Hutron, who lives below Cedar Springs in Spartanburg Co., last year planted about 40,000 hills of tobacco and he plans to double that amount this year.”
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