A Short History of Greenville
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2024
Place of publication: Columbia, SC
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781643364674
Copyright date: 2024
Table of contents: title: The Wild West, 1766-83 -- Becoming Greenville, 1783-1815 -- "A negligible place," 1815-31 -- "A flourishing little town," 1831-60 -- Decade of decisions, 1850s -- War and Reconstruction, 1860-76 -- Joining the New South, 1878-1900 -- Building the textile crescent, 1895-1915 -- Stirring the civic consciousness, 1897-1916 -- The war, the flu, and the homefront, 1916-20 -- Boom and bust, 1920-40 -- War and postwar, 1940-60 -- Desegregation and the decline of Main Street, 1960-70 -- Reinventing Greenville, 1970-95 -- Twenty-first century wonder, 1995-2023 -- Annotated bibliography of further reading.