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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CW8_old-greenville-graveyard_Greenville-SC.html
[Front]:About 150 feet east of this point are buried some of Greenville's earliest settlers, including Elias Earle (1762-1823), State Representative and Senator and United States Congressman; George Washington Earle (1777-1821), wealthy planter an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQU6_woodlawn-memorial-park-veterans-memorial_Greenville-SC.html
In honor of those who servedin the Armed Forces of theUnited States of America In Memory ofAll American VeteransThis memorial honors all American veterans who, although separate by generations, shared a common, undeniable goal — to valian…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPYL_fulton-h-anthony-memorial-bridge_Greenville-SC.html
Named in honor ofPatrolman Anthonywho was killed nearnere March 10, 1973while performing his dutyas a highway patrolmanandin recognition of his lifeof service as a conscientiousloyal and dedicatedlaw enforcement officer.Erected in 1981in the50th A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEMB_brutontown_Greenville-SC.html
[Front]:Brutontown, an historic African-American community, grew up around the intersection of Paris Mountain Rd. and Rutherford Rd. Benjamin Bruton, a mulatto freedman, bought 1.75 acres here in 1874. He built a house and blacksmith shop, labeled…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDDN_getting-water-from-here-to-there_Greenville-SC.html
To secure a safe and reliable water source, Greenville needed a reservoir. City leaders hired American Pipe Company, which, under the name Paris Mountain Water Company, bought Mountain Creek's forested watershed and built this dam around 1890. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDDG_barracks-in-the-woods_Greenville-SC.html
Look around and you'll notice lumps in the terrain. These overgrown foundations are all that's left of wooden barracks that once housed the men who built this park. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began work here in 1935, transporting men…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCT_open-to-the-sky_Greenville-SC.html
Political speeches, group baptisms, concerts and more have drawn spectators to this amphitheatre since the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built it of local stone in the 1930s. It is one of South Carolina's only remaining amphitheaters with clas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDC3_sulphur-spring_Greenville-SC.html
Water with heavy mineral content has long been valued as a health tonic. Sulfur water, despite its rotten-egg smell, was among the most popular "remedies." A sulphurous spring - now plugged with concrete - once flowed here and, in 1900, local e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDC0_the-original-water-filter_Greenville-SC.html
A watershed is the land that drains into a body of water. The land in front of you is a forested watershed. That's important because rain falling on a dirt road will end up as a mud puddle, but rain falling on a forested slope will end up as clear…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDBZ_bulls-eye_Greenville-SC.html
An archery range was one of the planned recreational features when the Civilian Conservation Corps designed the park in 1936. Eventually laid out between here and the Sulphur Springs parking lot, the course began with a posted diagram and instruct…
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