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The Greenville News started off as a four-page publication in 1874 by A.M. Speights. For a one-year subscription, the cost was eight dollars. After five different owners and many editors, the Peace family under the leadership of Bony Hampton Peace bought the paper in 1919 from Ellison Adger Smyth, around the same time that Greenville was becoming known as "The Textile Center of the South."
In the 1830s, McBee became a promoter of railroads, and he briefly served as president of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad in 1839. [16] In 1852, when the Greenville and Columbia Railroad was about to fail, McBee saved it by subscribing $50,000, a contribution that Debow's called "the largest individual subscription ever made to a Rail-road in the United States."
Simpsonville is a city in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States. It is part of the Greenville, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area . The population was 23,354 at the 2020 census , up from 18,238 in the 2010 census . [ 6 ]
The following people were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Greenville, South Carolina. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Greenville, SC 29601 link: Alexander Elementary [6] K4-5th 405 Patricia Paul 1601 Bramlett Road Greenville, SC 29611 link: Armstrong Elementary [7] K4-5th 428 Tracy S. Atkins 8601 White Horse Rd. Greenville, SC 29617 link: Augusta Circle Elementary [8] K5-5th 555 Mimi Melehes 100 Winyah Street Greenville 29605 link: Bell's Crossing Elementary ...
Nicholtown is a predominantly African-American community in Greenville, South Carolina. Jacqueline Woodson 's award-winning adolescent novel, Brown Girl Dreaming (2014) was based on recollections of her childhood in Nicholtown.
The South Carolina Statewide Aviation System Plan & Economic Impact Report released in 2018 concluded that in 2017 the Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) had a significant annual economic impact on the state of South Carolina and our local region. They determined that GMU had the following direct and indirect/induced economic impact: [citation ...
Welcome is located in west-central Greenville County at (34.822089, -82.448455 It is bordered to the north by Parker, to the east by Judson, to the southwest by Powdersville in Anderson County and to the west by Pickens County.