Palmetto Building

Spartanburg Historic District

National Register

South Carolina

Department of Archives

and History

Palmetto Building

of Historic Places

Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street and North Church Street (U.S. 221), on the right when traveling east on East Main Street.

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Palmetto

Palmetto was named by a member of the Palmetto Guards, a Regiment from South Carolina enroute to the Mexican War. This was in appreciation of the hospitality shown them by the community while encamped here in January, 1847

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Palmetto

Thinking that local Joshua trees were related to palm trees, the 1866 prospectors named the mining camp Palmetto. Although a local 12-stamp mill worked the silver ore, the town died for lack of profitable material. New discoveries in the late ...

Pierce M. Butler / The Palmetto Regiment

Pierce M. Butler

Six miles NE, in a family cemetery at Butler Church, is the grave of Colonel Pierce M. Butler, governor of South Carolina from 1836-1836. During his military career, he was a captain in the U.S. Army, a lt. ...

Palmetto Arsenal / Iron Works

1880 Lincoln Street

1850

This sundried brick structure on a stone foundation was a arsenal which produced many guns and edged weapons for the state before and during the Civil War. Destroyed by General Sherman's army in 1865 it was soon ...

Site of Palmetto Iron Works

On the SW corner of this square was located the Palmetto Armory, later called Palmetto Iron Works, originally built for converting flint and steel muskets into percussion guns. Arms and munitions were manufactured here during the Confederate War, 1861-1865.

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Palmetto Bluff

Wilson Ruins

The ruins that lie before you are the remains of Marion and Richard T. Wilson Jr.'s winter and spring home. The four-story mansion occupied what is now the Wilson Village Green and took approximately five years to construct. Once ...

Palmetto Bluff

Wilson Ruins

The ruins that lie before you are the remains of Marion and Richard T. Wilson Jr.'s winter and spring home. The four-story mansion occupied what is now the Wilson Village Green and took approximately five years to construct. Once ...

Palmetto Regiment

East Face

South Carolina

To

her sons

of the

Palmetto Regiment

Who fell

in the

War with Mexico

Anno Domini

1847.

Marker can be reached from Assembly Street near Gervais Street.

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