Sparta Cemetery

The main cemetery in Sparta was established on property deeded to the town in 1806. Burials illustrate a common nineteenth-century pattern of migration to the area, as settlers from New England and Virginia moved south and west through the Carolinas ...

Spartanburg Methodist College

While minister of Duncan Memorial Methodist Church, the Rev. David E. Camak established the Textile Industrial Institute in the dwelling across the street to educate cotton mill workers. The institute opened Sept. 5, 1911, and its operation was soon assumed ...

Spartanburg Water Works

1927 - 1970

On March 24, 1927, the Commissioners of

Public Works awarded a construction

contract for a new office building at

168 West Main Street to T.W. Houston.

The building was designed by local

architect J. Frank Collins, and it

served as the General Office of ...