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Greenville History, cemeteries, geneaology and special interest Downtown Greenville is where Greenville's first settler, Richard Pearis, established his plantation shortly after 1770, approximately located around East Court Street and South Main Street. Originally part of the Cherokee Nation, Greenville County officially began in 1786.
Greenville SC Cemetery Info Find A Grave South Carolina findagrave.com Click on "Browse by Location" and go to South Carolina. Greenville Cemetery Renewed: Lincoln Cemetery, negelected for years, has caretakers once again. The Rutherford Road cemetery holds hundreds of graves including those of First, Second and Korean Wars. Historic Tombstones! Visit a cemetery with your kids. It's a field trip with a Richland Cemetery According to SC listings in the National Register of Historic Places, Richland Cemetery, in downtown Greenville, was established in 1884 as the first municipal cemetery for and is the resting place of many of Greenville's African American community leaders. Richland Cemetery is about six acres and is the hill top behind the fire station at the corner of Stone Avenue and East Park Avenue. Greenville County Library Website for genealogy, census info, and lots more resources. Genealogical Brain Twister Tracing your family tree is not an easy task to take on. Read on: The child of your parent's brother or sister is your first cousin. However, your first cousin's child is not your second cousin, but your first cousin ONCE REMOVED. The child of your first cousin once removed is your first cousin TWICE REMOVED, and his child is your first cousin three times removed. Your second cousin is your grandparent's brother's (or sister's) grandchild. That second cousin's child is your And your third cousin? It's your great-grandparent's brother's (or sister's) great-grandchild. The third cousin's child is your third cousin once removed, his child is your thrid cousin twice removed. The grandchild of your brother or sister is your grandnephew or grandniece. The sister or brother of your grandparent is your great-aunt or great-uncle. The sister or brother of your great-grandparent is your great-grandaunt or great-granduncle. Whew! Isn't this grand? Or is it great? (The above was found as a newspaper clipping stuffed inside an old family Bible. Newspaper or columnist is unknown). gs Main menu sections of this website Greenville area info | Memo-News | Area photos Email Privacy Policy: Your e-mail is encouraged and welcomed and your privacy is important. This Web site is maintained by one person and your e-mail goes to that individual only. Your e-mail address is not traded, sold, or offered in any way to anyone. You will not receive junk e-mail from this Web site, So fire away. Photos: © 2007 greenvillesouth.com, except The Hunter Wilson Lumber Company photos. --gs
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Links to Greenville History -- Tell them you found them through the GreenvilleSouth.com Web site.
2007 News: The Upcountry History Museum at Heritage Green, Greenville, should be opening in September, 2007. Stayed tuned for details and watch local newspapers. upcountryhistory.org Greenville County Historic Preservation Commission greenvillehistoricpreservation.org Greenville County Historical Society greenvillehistory.org Palmetto Preservation Works provides historic preservation consulting services and preservation-related real estate projects. Greenville Cultural Exchange Center - (no website) 700 Arlington Avenue, Greenville SC. A collection of historical objects from Greenville County's black schools, churches, doctors, teachers, etc., for persons interested in tracing the roots of Greenville County's black community. Cultural Exchange Center Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10 am to 5 pm. Telephone 864-232-9162. 16th SC Volunteers Museum of Confederate History is located in the downtown area. Visit their website for information. Furman University's Huff Center for the Study of Piedmont History Visit the Huff Center website by cliking here Furman University Special Collections & Archives Click here to visit the archive webpages For much more information and links to other Greenville history websites, visit the Consortium for Greenville History by clicking here. Greenville County Library Website A great and obvious choice for local history reference.
Also, there is a list of African American Historic Places in South Carolina (CLICK HERE to jump to that webpage). South Carolina Historical Markers: Find out about historic buildings, structures, sites, objects and landscapes in our state at the SC Inventory of Historic Properties | Go here for Guidelines on the South Carolina Historical Marker program. South Carolina Museums National South Carolina Heritage Corridor Who was Abraham Lincoln? Greenville History Highlight
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The Hunter Wilson Lumber Company photograph above recently was found in a Greenville family's records and furniture, stored away since the early 1900s. The photograph, by Sands Photography, of The square sign attached at the roof line of the Hunter Wilson Lumber Company reads: GRAVES ZENITH READY MIXED PAINTS, HUNTER WILSON LUMBER CO., GREENVILLE, S.C. Odd place to put a sign, don't you think? How'd they get it to stay up there in a high wind? I guess they don't make nails like they used to. --gs |
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Around 1904 and probably earlier, the site was used as a potter's field. The cemetery has primarily military graves from the 1940s and 1950s. Another mention is of more than a dozen men who perished at nearby Camp Sevier during the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919. 
history lesson! Shown here, the tombstone of 
second cousin once removed, his child your second cousin twice removed, and so on.
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Book of African-American history
Wilson Cook was a prominent member of the Greenville District Republican Party following the Civil War and served in the State House from 1868 to 1870. The native of NC was brought to Greenville by Vardry McBee as a slave, but worked after hours and saved a sizeable sum. Once a freeman, he soon owned a general store, a tannery, and in 1881 was the largest black taxpayer in the County. Cook was also a founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Greenville. 
216 1/2 N. Main Street, Greenville SC, is not dated. (This photography studio no longer exists).