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dred rooms. Tliere are four churches for the wliitcs, and three for 

 colored persons. The Wofford College is under the direction of the 

 Methodist Church. There is also a male seminary, a female seminary, 

 six public and private schools, and an orphan house. The National 

 Bank has a paid in capital of $100,000 ; surplus, $30,000. Property is 

 valued at one and one-quarter million dollars. There is a city debt of 

 $150,000 for subscription to railroads, and §20,000 for Macadamizing the 

 streets. Twenty-five to thirty thousand bales of cotton are shipped an- 

 nually to New York and Charleston. There is a mineral spring in the 

 town, and several in the vicinity. The town is lighted with gas. 



Gaffne}'^, on the Air Line railroad, east of Spartanburg twenty-one 

 miles, was founded in 1873. The population, in 1880, numbered 400, 

 and is now estimated at 1,000. There is a hotel, and brick town hall 

 eighty-five feet by fifty-four feet ; four churches, costing $5,000, and two 

 schools. Stores and dwellings rent for ten dollars to twenty-five dollars 

 a month. The jiroperty valuation is $500,000. There is no town debt 

 or taxes. The yearly sales are about $315,000. Eight to ten thousand 

 bales of cotton are shipped to New York and Baltimore. There is a 

 brick yard, lime kiln and two blacksmith forges in the village. One 

 mile distant are the Limestone Springs, formerly a noted summer resort, 

 now a female academy. Near here is the ^Magnetic Iron Manufacturing- 

 Company, with a magnificent water power. Iron ore, lead, copper,-gold, 

 flexible siuidstone (ita columite or diamond rock), blue lime.stofie, white 

 and streaked marbles, fire-proof sand, and soapstone, are all found in this 

 neighborhood. There is a weekly newspaper. 



Clifton, on the Pacolet river, two-thirds of a mile from the Air Line 

 railroad, is a manufacturing village, of one thousand- inhabitants, built 

 up within two years. The village is the property of the Cotton Manu- 

 facturing Company', which employs six hundred hands. There is a 

 church and school. Sales, about seventy thousand dollars per annum. 

 Shipment of factory goods, $600,000 per annum. 



Woodruff, on the proposed line of the Greenwood and Spartanburg 



railroad, is eighteen miles south of the Court House. It has a population 



of three hundred. There are four churches, one colored, and three 



chools. AVagon making and saw milling are local industries. Mail by 



pi-ivate conveyance. 



Reidville, twelve miles southwest of the Court House, and five miles 

 from Vernonville, on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line railroad, is a 

 village of three hundred ijihabitants, that has grown up around educa- 

 tional institutions located there. These are a female college, one hun- 

 dred and fifty pupils, and a male high school, one hundred pupils. 

 Board costs ten dollars to twelve dollars a month ; the buildings are of 

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