TOWNS OF SOUTH CAEOLIXA. 715 



chanics, eight lawyers, two physicians, and one clergyman ; there was 

 then eight stores, five taverns, a male and female academy, and two 

 weekly papers, one devoted to agriculture. In 1840 the population was 

 600 ; in 1860 it was 1,360 ; in 1880, 1,339. There are ten miles of street, 

 paved at a cost of twenty-five cents to one dollar per yard. The Court 

 House is a venerable and handsome building, costing originally $8,000. 

 The King's Mountain Military Academy and the Female Academy are 

 fine buildings, costing about $20,000 each ; there are several other 

 schools, and a newspaper. The churches are the Episcopal, Methodist, 

 Presbyterian, Baptist and Associate Reformed. Building materials are 

 chiefly stone and brick from the vicinity. Taxes are four mills on the 

 dollar, two of which go to pay the balance due on paving the streets, 

 which is nearly paid up. Six to ten thousand bales of cotton are shipped 

 to New York. The yearly sales are stated as, provisions, $200,000 ; dry 

 goods, $150,000 ; miscellaneous, $50,000. 



Rock Hill, on the Charlotte and Columbia railroad, has an elevation 

 of six hundred and sixty-eight feet above sea-level. In 1880 the popu- 

 lation was 800, almost all of whom had settled there after the war. There 

 are three hotels, a town hall, engine house, and two public halls, with a 

 capacity for seating six hundred persons ; has stage, scenery, &c., for 

 theatrical exhibitions (license fee, $5). The whites have three brick 

 churches, and there are three wooden churches belonging to the colored 

 people. The best stores rent for $400 ; cottage dwellings, from $100 to 

 $150. Excellent brick are manufactured in the town. The value of 

 property is estimated at $500,000, of which $200,000 is insured. Taxes 

 are three mills on the dollar. Fifteen thousand bales of cotton are ship- 

 ped to New York, Baltimore and Charleston. The yearly sales of goods 

 aggregate $500,000. A cotton factory, two carriage factories, a tin man- 

 ufactory, two shoe shops, and two saddlery and harness shops, employing 

 one hundred and twenty-five hands in manufactures. There is a private 

 banking establishment in the town. The 



ALPINE REGION, 



of South Carolina, occupies the larger portions of Oconee and Pickens 

 counties, although it extends through the northern portions of Green- 

 ville, Spartanburg and York counties, whose towns have been already 

 treated of. Taken as a whole, it will be seen, on reference to the table, 

 that the percentage of the population living in towns is greater for 

 the Alpine Region than for any region in South Carolina, except imme- 



