...Lee Kennett Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The Camp Wadsworth Affair Lee Kennett Along U.S. Highway 29, just west of Spartanburg, South Car­ olina, stands a state historical marker. It informs the reader that nearby once stood Camp Wadsworth, a First World War training...

...John W. Rumble A Carolina Country Squire in the Old South and the New: The Papers of Janies F. Sloan John W. Rumble In a story for the Spartanburg, South Carolina, Free Lance of June 23, 1899, James F. Sloan outlined his adventures as Confederate captain during the Civil War, or as he sometimes...

... farm located eight miles southeast of the village of Spartanburg, South Carolina. In addition to recording his daily work, David often used his journal to comment on current affairs, family life, and his own state of mind. His records tell us much about farm life in the county, for he was a diligent...

.... The first of these was held at Naz­ areth Church in Spartanburg County, August 5 and 6, 1870, and was attended by thirty teachers. The organization was made permanent under the name of The Teachers Conven­ tion of Spartanburg County. In 1871 institutes were held in the counties of Greenville, Orangeburg...

... through a large central corporation along the lines of the originally proposed export corporation. Leaders of the American Cotton Association point to re­ cent developments in Spartanburg County, S. C., as evidence of the practicability of the warehousing scheme.9 Spartan­ burg County is said to rank next...

... clandestine oath-bound societies that were to hold meetings late at night two or three times a week to discuss the Cooperative Workers articles of faith. Arriving in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, in March, Hoover launched his recruitment drive. Rather than performing actual organizational operations...

... at Hampton, but in Spartanburg, near the mountains, two hundred and sixty miles away. I ordered the wagon from Spartanburg, from one of our great mail­ order houses. Because of the fact that I had to get the wagon Plantation Days 325 shipped in Charleston, and there forwarded to the plantation, while I...

... their convictions had been affirmed by the highest court. The county was Spartanburg, and one concedes that those executions were exceptional. A few weeks ago a writer of fiction, a Southerner, published a short story in a magazine, the gist of which was that a good Negro was murdered by a planter for no other...

... Ridge Mountains.9 Prior to 1860, Charleston maintained railway connections with such important towns in the piedmont as Greenville, Spartanburg, Chester, Pendleton, Columbia, and Laurens; but it was not until after the War for Southern Independence that well-established railway connections obtained...

... uses are continually being found for electricity. We are wont to refer to that portion of our state including the counties of Spartanburg, Cherokee, and York, as the old Mountain District . There is to be found iron ore of the finest quality and in great quantity, and limestone to be used...

... to rank, or age, or sex, or color, as the greatest and best man in the history of a state not unprolific of great men. Such a funeral as his was never before seen in South Carolina. All the business activities of Spartanburg were suspended for the time; the Col­ lege campus, the cemetery, the streets...

... Innes, ed. Bradley D. Bargar, South Carolina Historical Magazine, 63 (1962), 128; A Letter from Freeman of South Carolina. . in Documentary History of the American Revolution, ed. Robert W. Gibbes (New York, 1855, and Spartanburg, S.C., 1972), I, 12-13. 4 David Ramsay, History of South Carolina, 2...

..., while in the counties of Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson one third of the popula­ tion is in these villages; and the villages continue to grow. The South Carolina mill village is usually a separate commun­ ity, sometimes having a population of over 5,000 inhabitants. It is entirely owned...

... at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. 1. Raymond E. Callahan, Education and the Cult of Efficiency (Chicago, 1962). 2. Lawrence A. Cremin, The Transformation of the School (New York, 1961). 104 South Atlantic Quarterly There is not much in our historical literature which attempts to bring...

... by a stranger, who differs from us in matters of political faith, but who unites with good men in measures of political reform was endorsed.14 A mass meet­ ing of both races, led by Judge Alfred Aldrich, commended Chamberlain in Barnwell. In Spartanburg the issue was higher than party. 15 * Horry gave...

... thousand:41 six thousand greeted him at Anderson. General Gordon of Georgia and the Hampton party were escorted through Spartanburg by a vast concourse of red-shirted horsemen with torches. The details of the reception at Kingstree are typical of the entire process around the state. The railroad station...

..., and the Conventionists, claiming to represent a majority of the white population of the state, violently assailed the old system as minority government. Was it right that 50 or 100 voters in a parish should have the same representation as 3,000 in Spartanburg?21 The conven­ tion finally voted1 to dispense...

...! Another in North Atlanta bore flags sent by the Spartanburg (S. C.) WCTU Save the Boys! and Am I my Brother s Keeper? 12 At a victory celebration held several days later at the YMCA parlors Mrs. E. E. Harper, chairman of the state WCTU colored department, reported, Dear Friends, all day...