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Gaffney became a major center for the textile industry in South Carolina, which was the backbone of the county's economy up until the 1980s. Uptown Gaffney began to languish after Interstate 85 was built in the county as industries located near the new highway. Two serial killers have at different times attacked residents of Gaffney.
Location of Cherokee County in South Carolina. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cherokee County, South Carolina.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cherokee County, South Carolina, United States.
Irene Mill Finishing Plant, also known as the Cherokee Finishing Company, is a historic factory building located at Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina, United States of America. The building was constructed in 1915–1916, and is a large, rectangular, one-story brick building with a gable roof with exposed support beams.
Cherokee County is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,216. [1] The county seat is Gaffney. [2] The county was formed in 1897 from parts of York, Union, and Spartanburg counties.
Ellen Furnace Site (38CK68) is a historic archaeological site located near Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina. The site includes a partially collapsed but well-preserved iron furnace constructed about 1838 of quarried stone and two earthen sluiceways. Also present are building foundations, tramway road beds, and ore mines.
Cowpens Furnace Site (38CK73) is the remains of an early 19th-century iron-making furnace in Cherokee County, South Carolina. [3] [4] The site shows early American iron-making technology. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] Iron making began in Upstate South Carolina just before the Revolutionary War ...
Nesbitt's Limestone Quarry (38CK69) is a historic archaeological site located near Gaffney, Cherokee County, South Carolina. The site includes the most extensive and best preserved limestone quarry associated with early iron production in the northwestern Piedmont of South Carolina. It was the primary source of limestone for the region's ironworks.
The district encompasses 111 contributing building in a primarily residential area of Gaffney. The majority of the buildings were built between about 1890 and about 1930, and consist of houses sited on large urban lots and oriented towards wide, tree-lined streets.