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South Carolina roads of importance to the Back Country prior to 1900

March 30, 2023 - The Piedmont Museum volunteers have been delving into the Payne/Garrison/Tarrant Collection and finding historic information about the area of western Greenville County that has provided new revelations concerning our ancient roads. Plats dating back to the 1790s often show roads passing across p...

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Greenville’s history coming alive

March 11, 2023 - The Story of Greenville County, our history, is vital to the understanding of who we are.  As today, commerce has always led our story.  There is no separating Greenville’s story from our beginnings as a trade route to the interior of the colonies and on to a focused drover’...

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The Jonquils are Blooming at Cedarhurst Portending a Great 2023

February 20, 2023 - Fork Shoals Historical Society is privileged to share news of the upcoming restoration of our historic house/inn along Augusta Road in southern Greenville County.  The McCullough House...

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Moonville Mae Shares History in the Family

January 24, 2023 - My doll from Aunt Lizzie...

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Moonville Mae says Merry Christmas from Piedmont!

December 20, 2022 - Piedmont Historical Preservation Society is participating in the Duke Power World of Energy Festival of Trees at the Oconee site.  Visit the World of Energy in December and vote for ou...

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Piedmont Historical Preservation Society working to preserve Textile history

November 14, 2022 - Piedmont Historical Preservation Society has been blessed to oversee a collection of textile historical documents and artifacts and the person leading the work to catalogue these treasures is historian and archivist, Joe Hursey.  During the efforts to preserve our documents, Joe finds inform...

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Backcountry Law after the Revolution

October 17, 2022 - The fact that the Constitution of the United States was signed five years after the Backcountry opened up to legal settlement is an important statement to Greenville residents and historians.  By 1787 a primitive government was operating in Greenville County and later Washington District (no...

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Constitution Day Celebrated by DAR

October 17, 2022 - DAR members withFountain Inn Mayor G.P. McLeer,Jr (Terry, Cathy and Carol)...

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Paternalism and the Piedmont YWCA

October 16, 2022 - Piedmont Manufacturing Company started spinning its spindles in 1876 after construction of the first mill building by owner Henry Hammett. Soon after completion of the first mill building, Hammett moved on to build more than just mill buildings in Piedmont, including the mill village&nb...

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