Cradle of Greenville

Near this sign, before the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, Richard Pearis, best known of all Pre-Revolutionary settlers in the surrounding Cherokee Indian nation, established his home with a grist mill and trading post. Around this location grew up ...

Greenville County Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Southeast Wall

Panel 1:

The Purple Heart

Awarded to

Combat-Veterans

"For Your Tomorrow,

They Gave Their Today.

Panel 2:

The young warrior does no speak.

Nevertheless, he is heard in the still houses: who has not heard him.

He has a silence that speaks for him at night and when ...

Greenville & Columbia RR / Belton

Greenville & Columbia RR

The Greenville & Columbia Railroad, founded in 1845, began construction in 1849. It reached Greenville in 1853, with a branch at this point to Anderson - the Blue Ridge Railroad. The town of Belton grew up ...

Greenville Treaty Boundary Line

Greenville Treaty

Boundary Line.

Treaty Signed And

Ratified 1795 By

The Indians And

General Anthony Wayne.

By This Treaty

The Land To The North

Was Given

To The Indians

And To The South

To The White Settlers.

Marker is at the intersection of Boundary Road (County Route 73) and Marion - Marysville ...

History of Greenville-Bond County

Illinois Confederacy Indians roamed this prairie land, rich in game, which became Illinois County of Virginia. Ceded in 1784 to the United States it was successively included in the Northwest, Indiana; and in 1809, Illinois Territory. Formed in 1817, Bond ...

South Greenville Grange No. 225

Oliver Hudson Kelley organized National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry in Washington D.C., December 4, 1867. The Wisconsin State Grange was organized October 24, 1872 by National Deputy J. C. Abbott.

South Greenville Grange No. 225 was organized by State Deputy James ...

Greenville Presbyterian Church

Organized 1773

Burial Place of

Revolutionary Soldiers

Marker is at the intersection of Old Shoals Junction Road (U.S. 178) and Bell Road, on the right when traveling south on Old Shoals Junction Road.

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Greenville's General

Have you heard the story of General Greene,

A Rhode Island private who followed his dream.

In 1780 as Washington's man

He came to our state to free our great land.

Armies of British were sent by the King,

But they were no match for ...

Greenville County Confederate Monument

[South Side]:

All lost, but by the graves

Where martyred heroes rest

He wins the most who honor saves

Success is not the test

The world shall yet decide

In truth's clear far off light

That the soldiers

Who wore the gray and died

With Lee, where right.

[East Side]:

Come ...

The Geologic History of Greenville

The Children's Garden

The mountains of the Upstate have a very long and complex history. In fact, it took at least 200 million years for them to form! The mountains rose up as huge slowly "drifting" blocks of the earth's rocky ...