7C8 TOWNS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



AViiinsboro, tlie county seat, is on the Charlotte and Columbia rail- 

 road, thirty miles from the latter place. The depot has an elevation of 

 five hundred and forty-five feet above the sea level. It is situated 

 on a ridge dividing the water shed of the Wateree from that of 

 Broad river. The soil is a rich, stiff, dark red clay loam. Granite 

 and trap rocks are found. Twenty feet below the surface the earth 

 becomes friable, somewhat resembling quicksand, being perfectly white 

 in some places. The town is regularly laid out ; the streets of good 

 width, aggregate six miles in length, have broad pavements, curbed 

 with split granite, and are well shaded by handsome trees. The Court 

 House, Jail, Town Hall, Market, Steam Fire Engine Halls, and Mt Zion 

 Collegiate Institute are all handsome brick buildings. The Thespian 

 Hall, fitted for exhibitions, is eighty by thirty-five feet. Many of the 

 private residences are beautifully located and are fine buildings. The 

 water supply is excellent and abundant from wells and springs. There 

 are five large fire wells and cisterns, a steam fire "engine, a hand fire en- 

 gine, and a hook and ladder company. Of the five churches for whites, 

 the Presbyterian cost $35,000 ; the Associate Reformed Presbyterian seats 

 300 ; the Episcopal Church seats 400 ; The Methodist 300 ; the Bap- 

 tist, 300. The colored people have an African Methodist Church, 

 seating 600, and Baptist Church, seating 200. The colored Pres- 

 byterian Mission School, built of wood, cost $2,000, and accommo- 

 dates 200 pupils. Stores and dwellings rent for $100 to $500, or about 

 ten per cent, of their value ; for the latter the demand is greater than 

 the supply, a considerable portion of the town having been burned b}^ 

 Sherman's army, which has much retarded its growth. Excellent brick 

 are made in the vicinity, and four miles distant, on Col. Thos. J. Wood- 

 ward's land, is a quarry of the finest granite, to which a railroad is being 

 built. The yearly shipments are 14,000 t© 15,000 bales of cotton to 

 Charleston and New York, and 3,000 bales to Baltimore and Richmond. 

 The Winnsboro National Bank has a paid in capital of $75,000. and a 

 surplus of $15,000. The yearly sales are given as, provisions, $350,000 ; 

 dry goods, $150,000 ; hardware, $50,000 ; miscellaneous, $100,000. Pro- 

 perty is valued at $500,000. There is a debt of $3,000, balance due on 

 purchase of steam fire engine, interest seven per cent. Town taxes are 

 restricted to two and one-half mills on the dollar by statute. In 1840 

 the population was 500, in 1850 it was 355, in 1860 it was 1,124, in 1870 

 about the same, and in 1880 it was 1,500. 



GREENVILLE COUNTY 



has twenty-six towns and trading settlements, distributed as follows : 

 Greenville Court House, one hundred and forty-nine stores ; Greer's, 



