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Laurens Glass Company was established in 1910, and was one of the largest glass plants in the southeast for over 80 years. The Laurens Railroad Company was chartered in 1847. The Columbia-Newberry-Laurens Railroad and the Charleston-Western Carolina Railroad are the two major intersections provided by the railroad. [10]
South Carolina Highway 252 Truck (SC 252 Truck) is a 6.868-mile (11.053 km) truck route of SC 252 that has its routing within Ware Shoals, within Greenwood County. About half of it is also in Laurens County. SC 252 Truck begins at an intersection with the SC 252 mainline (North Greenwood Avenue/East Fleming Street). It travels to the southeast ...
The 20 years from 1948 to 1968 were a highly transitional time for the politics of South Carolina and Laurens County, largely in part due to the Democratic Party's increasing support for African-American civil rights and enfranchisement. South Carolinian Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond won the county in 1948, and Democrats won it back from 1952 to 1960.
The first SC 72 was established in 1925 or 1926 as a new primary routing, from SC 7 at the Saluda River, north to SC 10 in Waterloo. In 1932, this routing became part of U.S. Route 221 (US 221). The second SC 72 appeared in 1940 as a new primary routing from SC 7, near the Broad River , to Leeds .
South Carolina Highway 104 (SC 104) was a state highway that was established in 1939 from SC 43 (now U.S. Route 378 (US 378)) in McCormick northeast for about 4 miles (6.4 km). The next year, its northern terminus was extended to the north-northwest to SC 10 northeast of Troy .
South Carolina Highway 418 (SC 418) is a 24.740-mile (39.815 km), east–west state highway in upstate South Carolina. It travels between U.S. Route 25 (US 25) in southern Greenville County and SC 101 / SC 146 in southern Spartanburg County ; it also travels through northern Laurens County .
Annual carloads amounted to about 8,000 in 1988, which prompted CSX to sell the portion from Laurens to a point short of downtown Greenville to the Carolina Piedmont Railroad on November 5, 1990. A key factor in the sale was the fact that the line could not support intermodal or automotive shipments on account of low clearances.
Location of Laurens County in South Carolina. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Laurens County, South Carolina.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States.