A Short History of Greenville
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A Short History of Greenville

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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A Short History of Greenville

About this book

A concise and engaging history that traces Greenville's development from backcountry settlement to one of America's best small cities

Today, Greenville, South Carolina, is regularly included on lists of the best cities and places to live in the United States. The present-day site of technological innovation nestled in the Piedmont of America's Southeast, Greenville is promoted as a future-oriented city and weekend getaway for tourists interested in art, culture, nature, and cuisine. In this lively historical account illustrated with sixty images, author Judith T. Bainbridge invites readers to explore the full expanse of Greenville's history, from its earliest days as Cherokee hunting grounds, to its development as a western outpost settlement and later a nineteenth-century summer resort. From the economic boom brought by the textile industry, to the bust of the Great Depression, and finally to the revitalization of the downtown as a haven for business and tourism in the twenty-first century, Bainbridge charts the development of this dynamic city.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. A SHORT HISTORY OF GREENVILLE
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. CHAPTER 1 The Wild West, 1766–83
  8. CHAPTER 2 Becoming Greenville, 1783–1815
  9. CHAPTER 3 “A Negligible Place,” 1815–31
  10. CHAPTER 4 “A Flourishing Little Town,” 1831–60
  11. CHAPTER 5 Decade of Decisions, 1850s
  12. CHAPTER 6 War and Reconstruction, 1860–76
  13. CHAPTER 7 Joining the New South, 1878–1900
  14. CHAPTER 8 Building the Textile Crescent, 1895–1915
  15. CHAPTER 9 Stirring the Civic Consciousness, 1897–1916
  16. CHAPTER 10 The War, the Flu, and the Homefront, 1916–20
  17. CHAPTER 11 Boom and Bust, 1920–40
  18. CHAPTER 12 War and Postwar, 1940–60
  19. CHAPTER 13 Desegregation and the Decline of Main Street, 1960–70
  20. CHAPTER 14 Reinventing Greenville, 1970–95
  21. CHAPTER 15 Twenty-First Century Wonder, 1995–2023
  22. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  23. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FURTHER READING
  24. INDEX