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Piedmont is located in northern Anderson County and southwestern Greenville County at (34.704140, -82.461427 It is 12 miles (19 km) south of the center of Greenville.Exit 35 on Interstate 85 is 2 miles (3 km) to the west of the center of Piedmont.
Shoals at Cedar Falls Park, Greenville County, South Carolina. Cedar Falls Park is a 90-acre (36 ha) recreation area in Upstate South Carolina where the Reedy River widens to 200 feet (61 m), cascading over rocks and boulders. The park is maintained by Greenville County Parks, Recreation, and Tourism. [1]
The Upstate, historically known as the Upcountry, [4] is a region of the U.S. state of South Carolina, comprising the northwesternmost area of the state.Although loosely defined among locals, the general definition includes the 10 counties of the commerce-rich I-85 corridor in the northwest corner of South Carolina.
The Reedy River Falls with the Liberty Bridge in the foreground.. The Reedy River rises in Greenville County in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the city of Greenville, and flows generally south-southeastwardly through Greenville, Lake Conestee Nature Park, and the Piedmont region into Laurens County.
The park also contains several lodging options, including villas and cabins. It was first leased from SCE&G (now SCANA) in 1970, who built the Dreher Shoals Dam, creating Lake Murray. Today it is a largely heavily wooded island with the only access being a bridge on its Northern side. The park is named after the former owner of island, Billy ...
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.
The cities of Concord and Kannapolis are expecting a daily shortfall of 22 million US gallons (83,000 m 3) of water a day by 2035 [5] in their Rocky River watershed and want to pump up to 36 million US gallons (140,000 m 3) of water daily from the Catawba River. [6]
The Saluda Dam [1] or Saluda River Dam, [2] officially the Dreher Shoals Dam, [1] [3] commonly referred to as the Lake Murray Dam, [4] [5] is an earthen embankment dam located approximately 10 miles (15 km) west of Columbia, South Carolina on the Saluda River. Construction on the dam began in 1927 and was completed in 1930.