Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-07
SOUTH CAROLINA NOTES.
THE PLUC1xY LITTLE TOWN OF
GREENWOOD.

A Historical LOcality-Situation of the
Town-Galvanizedb by the Augusta and
Knoxville ROad-Statistics-M
Princes-Business Houses-A Railroad
Center-Chsster, Greenvilie and Able
willie Road Organized-P earce's Gran
lite Observation-Disclosures Encsmpment
A Phenomenal TOwn-Cspt, Kaouls
! WOrk-SaVannah and the Central Rail
embarrassing in Popularity.
Five miles from Troy the traveller trend
ing north from Augusta pauses briet
season at Bradley, neat village, con-
/ tanning six stores, one church, one school,
and carriage shop. On the outskirts,
most charmingly located, is the hand
some residence of DIR. Neel, EMPOWERED in
a noble oak grove and surrounded with
| fruitful orchards, luxuriant vegetable
and flower gardens and every appliance
OF a comfortable home. The doctor is
public spirited gentlemen and active di-
rector of the Augusta and Knoxville and
Greenville, Laurens and Spartanburg
railroad. Here, too, in a stately mansion
resides the venerable Gen. Bradley, the
former President of the road. The
adjacent country is fertile and well
cultivated. Another five miles,
cred with promising crops, and Nerdery
station is reached. A luXuriant corn field
! forms the verdant setting of the pretty
little town, which boasts a saw mill, four
stores, church and school, and several
neat dwellings.
A moment, and we are off again, speed
! ing along across babbling brooks and
"bosky dells," and broad expanses of
! corn and cotton, the former rejoicing IN
the abundant moisture and glad sunshine,
! and suggesting very coTnucOpia when
the golden ears are garnered.
Soon eight miles are left behind, and
then on perfectly level grade we roll
| into
GREENWOOD,
! that plucky little city so noted for its en-
terprise and intelligence.
1t is situated within ten miles of his
torical old Cambridge, long the seat OF
! justice of the broad principally out of
which four large counties have been
| carved. The former ''district" divisions,
! albeit incOnVenient from the size, gave
an individuality to South Carolina, and
enjoying the prestige OF antiquity, were
abandoned with reluctance by many of
| her citizens.
! In the vicinity, too, stands old
NINETY SIX
of revolutionary fame, which the writer
]
! town is most happily placed on an ele-
vatei plateau, with no abrupt knobs or
! descents, and almost in the very centre
| the waters of the Saluda and Savannah
rivers divide, and pour their contents into
| the Atlantic, the former in Carolina,
the latter in Georgia, with
near 200 miles of intervening
/ space. On all sides stretches broad belt
| of fertile, level country, yielding abundant
| crops, and noted for its salubrlty. The
! place has existed as a small village for
| more than half century, but almost for
! gotten in its retired seclusion far from the
busy marts Of the country, was suddenly
| awakened to a sense of It's innate impOr-
lance and superior advantages by the
! Augusta to that point. Then the
latent enterprise of spirited
and energetic people asserted itself, and
| the old business part of the town was de-
! serted, and substantial brick stores, ele-
! CANT residences aud
FIRsT-CLASs HOTEL
| sprang up like magic on the line of the
railroad. While travelling in Florida the
writer often remarked that the progress
and real prosperity of a place could
usually be accurately determined by the
modations. If this be true, then
| Greenwood certainly owes debt of graft
| tude to Mr.. Thomas Riley, the proprietor
OF the Greenwood Hotel. That gentleman
/ keeps model house and gives his per-
! sOnal attention TO every want OF his nu-
merous guests. His table is a constant
! rebuKe TO the scrimpy menu so often to he
endured IN boarding houses. Here a
square meal OF the best the market af-
! fOrds is guaranteed to all. Mr.. Riley is
| also director Of the Augusta and Knox
! vile and the Greenwood, Laurens and
/ Spartanburg railroads, and it is said
that more to him than any other single
| individual is the completion OF this pio-
/ neer highway due. At one time, when
| there were a hundred cOnvicts at work
| and no money in the treasury, he main
| tanned the whole force until the emer-
| gency was tided over from his own pri-
! Vate purse. In all matters of public in
terest too he is foremost citizen.
STATISTICS OF GREENWOOD.
The young city contains about 400 in
! habitants, seventeen business places, Fix
| churches three White and three colOred) },
| one female college, one male high school
and two private schools, six physicians
| and two lawyers. }. S. Daily is the editor
OF the sprightly Greenwood Tribune, and
! is getting up the best paper ever pub
lished in the town. We owe him many
thanks for MS polite attentions.
TIE GILES SEMINARY
is a monument to the genius and industry
OF two Southern ladies, the Misses Giles,
sisters, by whose unaided efforts the
chaste college building was erected and
equipped, and a school for young ladies'
probably inferior 10 no other in Carolina
established. These enterprisng edu-
Gators number one hundred pupils upon
their roll, and are universally esteemed
and respected.
The male academy, also under the
direction Of Prof. S. p. BoOzer, one of the
most cultivated and progressive gentle
men Of this whole section and a ripe
scholar, is doing good work in preparing
the rising youth of the community to en-
ter the once more rehabilitated and time
honored university of the State. The pro-
lessor, gentleman of means and public
spirited citizen, is an amateur educator
only, teaching for the love of it. His
name appears first on the list Of the re-
Gently elected Greenwood directors Of the
new railroad now on the taps.
or the physicians DR.. w. b. Millwee is
the Oldest practitioner in the place, and
gives his unqualified testimony to the re-
markabe health Of this region. He is an
interesting gentleman, well posted in the
traditions and history of the county.
Some of the merchants - notably
Messrs. Baily, Barksdale d Co., and J. Il.
DurGt A. Eo-rI1n douhla StOras davnted