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The Peachoid is a 135 foot (41 m) tall water tower in Gaffney, South Carolina, U.S., that resembles a peach. [1] The water tower holds one million U.S. gallons (3.78541 million litres) of water and is located off Peachoid Road by Interstate 85 between exits 90 and 92 (near the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway). Usually referred to by locals as ...
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC or DHEC) was the government agency responsible for public health and the environment in the U.S. state of South Carolina. [1] It was created in 1973 from the merger of the South Carolina State Board of Health and the South Carolina Pollution Control Authority.
Gaffney is a city in and the seat of Cherokee County, South Carolina, United States, [5] in the Upstate region of South Carolina. Gaffney is known as the "Peach Capital of South Carolina". The population was 12,539 at the 2010 census, [6] with an estimated population of 12,609 in 2019. [7]
In 1937, it was doubled in size by a rear addition. It is one of 14 public libraries built in South Carolina between 1903 and 1916 with funding from Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Foundation, and was Gaffney's first public library. [2] [3] It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]
The grant is part of a $128 million federal effort to fund 186 projects that advance environmental justice by supporting areas that suffered most acutely from pollution and disinvestment. It will ...
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.
Santee Cooper, also known officially from the 1930s as the South Carolina Public Service Authority, is South Carolina's state-owned electric and water utility that came into being during the New Deal as both a rural electrification and public works project that created two lakes and cleared large tracts of land while building hydro-electric dams and power plants. [1]
Retired Newberry business owner Joe White won South Carolina’s House District 40 runoff election Tuesday over Tammy Johns, giving the Midlands district new representation for the first time ...