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South Carolina state road 86 cuts through the small town also, connecting with Interstate 85 at Exit 35. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 8.8 square miles (22.7 km 2 ), of which 8.6 square miles (22.3 km 2 ) is land and 0.15 square miles (0.4 km 2 ), or 1.93%, is water. [ 5 ]
The Piedmont Manufacturing Company was established by Henry Pinckney Hammett in 1873. Over the next few years, it constructed a textile mill and village at Garrison Shoals on the Saluda River at the present location of Piedmont. Piedmont Number One, which opened in 1876, was a four-story brick factory with an L-shaped floor plan.
Sullivan House, also known as Tumbling Shoals, is a historic home located near Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was built about 1838, and is a two-story, frame I-house dwelling, two rooms in length, and one room deep, with a side-gabled roof. The house typifies the first post-pioneer permanent settlement in the lower Carolina Piedmont.
The Piedmont & Northern Railway (reporting mark PN) was a heavy electric interurban company operating over two disconnected divisions in North and South Carolina.Tracks spanned 128 miles (206 km) total between the two segments, with the northern division running 24 miles (39 km) from Charlotte, to Gastonia, North Carolina, including a three-mile (5 km) spur to Belmont.
From this confluence the Saluda River flows generally southeastwardly through the Piedmont region, through or along the boundaries of Pickens, Greenville, Anderson, Abbeville, Laurens, Greenwood, Newberry, Saluda, Lexington and Richland Counties, past the towns of Piedmont, West Pelzer, Pelzer, Ware Shoals and West Columbia.
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The Ware Shoals Railroad (reporting mark WS) was a shortline connecting the town of Ware Shoals, South Carolina, to the Southern Railway and Piedmont and Northern Railway (later Seaboard Coast Line) at Shoals Junction, South Carolina, a distance of 5.2 miles (8.4 km). [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.