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The Graniteville Historic District encompasses one of the first textile company towns to be established in the Southern United States.Built in the late 1840s by William Gregg near Aiken, South Carolina, and now known as Graniteville, it was modeled after New England mill towns.
Graniteville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Aiken County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,614 at the 2010 census . [ 3 ] It lies along U.S. Route 1 , five miles (8.0 km) west of Aiken in Horse Creek Valley , which originates in the nearby town of Vaucluse .
William Gregg (February 2, 1800 – September 12, 1867) was an ardent advocate of industrialization in the antebellum Southern United States and the founder of the Graniteville Mill, the largest textile mill in South Carolina during the antebellum period. Gregg was a revolutionary figure in the textile industry.
The Hickman Mill Historic District encompasses an early 20th-century textile mill complex in Graniteville, South Carolina. It is located just south of the older Graniteville Mill, and is bounded on the north by Marshall Street, the east by Canal Street, and the south by Hard Street. The complex includes a large brick mill building, and the ...
Aiken County (/ ˈ eɪ k ən /) is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 168,808. [1] Its county seat and largest community is Aiken. [2] Aiken County is a part of the Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Sep. 26—GRANITEVILLE — The future of Hickman Hall is no longer in limbo. Better World Studios Inc. recently purchased the 12,528-square-foot building, a local landmark that was in foreclosure ...
Derrick, Samuel M. (1930), Centennial History of South Carolina Railroad, Columbia, SC: The State Company Dunning, A. E. (c. 2007), Train Wreck and Chlorine Spill in Graniteville, South Carolina (PDF) , U.S. Department of Transportation, Transportation Safety Management Committee, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-20
The Graniteville train crash was an American rail disaster that occurred on January 6, 2005, in Graniteville, South Carolina. At 2:39 am EST, two Norfolk Southern trains collided near the Avondale Mills plant in Graniteville. [1] Nine people were killed and over 250 people were treated for toxic chlorine exposure.