TOWNS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 709 



fourteen stores ; Piedmont, six stores ; Fairvicw, five stores ; Hunt- 

 ersville, Marietta, Merrittsville, and Sandy Flat, three stores each ; 

 Bellevue, Fork Shoals, Lima, O'Neal, Plain, Sterling Grove, Tay- 

 lor's, Highland Grove, two stores each ; Alba, Batesville, Chick 

 Springs, Fountain Inn, Gowansville, Lickville, Mush Creek, Pelham's, 

 Pliny, and Hart's, one store each. Of this number thirteen sell liquors, 

 twelve hardware, twenty-seven dry goods, sixty-nine miscellaneous arti- 

 cles, and ninety-one general merchandise. The estimated wealth of the 

 storekeepers is*^ $1,298,000. 



Greenville, the county seat, long noted for the salubrity of its climate 

 and the beauty of its situation, at the foot of the Blue Ridge mountains, 

 and in full view of them, is located on Reedy river, at the junction of the 

 Columbia and Greenville railroad with the Atlanta and Charlotte Air- 

 Line railroad. In 1820 the population was 500, in 1840 it was 850, in 

 1850 it was 1,305, in 1860 it was 1,518, in 1870 it was 2,757, in 1880 it 

 was 6,160. A careful enumeration by the Inter-State Directory Com- 

 pany, in 1883, shows the population to be 8,355. It appeared on the 

 same date that there were in course of erection sixteen residences, 

 seven stores, one warehouse, one stable, one large church, and a musi- 

 cal conservatory three stories high, and including twenty-one rooms. 



It has an elevation of ten hundred and fifty feet above the sea 

 level. It has six hundred yards of granite pavement, twelve hundred 

 yards of other rock pavement, and twelve hundred yards of brick pave- 

 ment. There are two miles of street railway in the town. Reedy river, 

 with two falls of over thirty feet each, traverses the town, which has in 

 addition twenty-five street cisterns, capacity, fifteen thousand gallons 

 each. Rock culverts and drains, with side drains of terra cotta, make a 

 good system of drainage and sewerage. There are six hotels and three 

 livery stables in the town. The handsome brick Court House cost 

 $25,000, and an opera hall, costing $15,000, has seven hundred seats. 

 The University grounds are handsomely kept, and the agricultural fair 

 grounds cover thirty acres, having some fine buildings. There are ten 

 churches, with a seating capacit}^ of three hundred to one thousand each, 

 and costing, in the aggregate, $75,000. There are two colleges, a military 

 institute, a public school, and a number of other schools. Building 

 materials are brick and granite, obtained in the vicinit^^ The value of 

 real and personal property is stated at $2,500,000, of which $1,800,000 is 

 insured. The taxes are six and a half mills on the dollar, yielding 

 $11,500 per annum. There is a debt of $55,000 in aid of the Air-Line 

 railroad. Forty thousand bales of cotton, it is stated, have been shipped 

 in one year to New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston, and yarn, 

 to the value of $200,000, to Boston. Before the war no cotton was shipped 



