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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDYT_old-college_Greenville-SC.html
Built in 1851 with two class rooms for use while the main building was being completed.Dr. James C. Furman used the south end,Dr. Charles H. Judson, the north end.Entrusted by action of the Trustees on June 10, 1910 to the Quaterion Club for prese…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDO5_the-shack_Greenville-SC.html
The Shack, built in 1937, served as a snack bar and rustic gathering place on the campus of the university's coordinated women's college until it was moved to Furman's new campus in 1961. Now a student residence, it is the only remaining structure…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDDN_getting-water-from-here-to-there_Greenville-SC.html
To secure a safe and reliable water source, Greenville needed a reservoir. City leaders hired American Pipe Company, which, under the name Paris Mountain Water Company, bought Mountain Creek's forested watershed and built this dam around 1890.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDDG_barracks-in-the-woods_Greenville-SC.html
Look around and you'll notice lumps in the terrain. These overgrown foundations are all that's left of wooden barracks that once housed the men who built this park.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began work here in 1935, transporting men…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCT_open-to-the-sky_Greenville-SC.html
Political speeches, group baptisms, concerts and more have drawn spectators to this amphitheatre since the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built it of local stone in the 1930s. It is one of South Carolina's only remaining amphitheaters with clas…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDCH_the-dam-for-reservoir-2_Greenville-SC.html
When this dam was built in 1898, the water it collects was known simply as Reservoir 2. The first reservoir, today called Mountain Lake, had been constructed eight years earlier, but the growing city demanded additional reliable and pure water, so…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDC3_sulphur-spring_Greenville-SC.html
Water with heavy mineral content has long been valued as a health tonic. Sulfur water, despite its rotten-egg smell, was among the most popular "remedies."
A sulphurous spring - now plugged with concrete - once flowed here and, in 1900, local e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDC0_the-original-water-filter_Greenville-SC.html
A watershed is the land that drains into a body of water. The land in front of you is a forested watershed. That's important because rain falling on a dirt road will end up as a mud puddle, but rain falling on a forested slope will end up as clear…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDBZ_bulls-eye_Greenville-SC.html
An archery range was one of the planned recreational features when the Civilian Conservation Corps designed the park in 1936. Eventually laid out between here and the Sulphur Springs parking lot, the course began with a posted diagram and instruct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDB1_the-pearis-of-paris-mountain_Greenville-SC.html
An adventurous hero or an opportunistic traitor, Richard Pearis led a life touched by many of colonial America's defining themes. Leaving Virginia, he settled by the Reedy River in 1768 and is credited with being the first to harness local waterpo…