Greenville, South Carolina Greenville, South Carolina City of Greenville Clockwise from top left: Downtown Greenville, Furman University, Falls Park on the Reedy, Peace Center, Reedy River Clockwise from top left: Downtown Greenville, Furman University, Falls Park on the Reedy, Peace Center, Reedy River Official seal of Greenville, South Carolina Seal Official logo of Greenville, South Carolina Greenville is positioned in South Carolina Greenville - Greenville County Greenville Airports Greenville Spartanburg International Airport, Greenville Downtown Airport Greenville (/ ri nv l/; locally / ri nv l/) is the biggest city and the governmental center of county of Greenville County in the upstate region of South Carolina, in the United States. The city's mayor is Knox White, who has served in that position since December 1995. With an estimated populace of 64,579 as of 2015, it is the sixth-largest town/city in the state.
Greenville is the biggest city in the Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The MSA had a populace of 874,869 in 2015, making it the biggest in South Carolina and the third biggest in the Carolinas.
Greenville is the biggest city in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson Combined Statistical Area.
Greenville is positioned approximately halfway between Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, along Interstate 85, and its urbane region also includes Interstates 185 and 385.
Greenville has attained recognition in various nationwide publications such as CNN Money, which ranked Greenville as one of the "Top 10 Fastest Growing Cities in the U.S." Bloomberg titled Greenville the 3rd Strongest Job Market, 2010; and Forbes titled Greenville the 13th Best City for Young Professionals.
1.1 From Cherokee Land to Greenville County Pearis established a plantation on the Reedy River called the Great Plains in present-day downtown Greenville.
Pearis never returned to his plantation but Paris Mountain is titled after him. The Treaty of Dewitt's Corner in 1777 ceded almost all Cherokee land, including present-day Greenville, to South Carolina. Greenville County was created in 1786 and was titled for its physical appearance.
Alston came to Greenville County in 1788 and bought 400 acres (160 ha) and a portion of Pearis' former plantation.
In 1853 Mc - Bee and other Greenville County leaders funded a new barns called the Greenville and Columbia Railroad.
In December 1860 Greenville supported a convention to debate the copy of secession for South Carolina.
The Greenville District sent James Furman, William K.
On December 20, 1860 the South Carolina state convention, along with the Greenville delegation, voted to secede from the Union.
Greenville County provided over 2,000 soldiers to the Confederate States Army.
Greenville saw no action from the war until 1865 when Union troops came through the town looking for President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy who had fled south from Richmond, Virginia.
In June 1865 Andrew Johnson appointed Greenville County native Benjamin Franklin Perry as Governor of South Carolina. General Assembly establishing Greenville, the town, as a city.
The Greenville News was established in 1874 as Greenville's first daily newspaper.
By 1915 Greenville became known as the "Textile Center of the South." During World War I, Greenville served as a training camp center for Army recruits.
The Mansion House was completed and replaced with the Poinsett Hotel in 1925. The Great Depression hurt the economy of Greenville forcing mills to lay off workers.
Furman University and the Greenville Women's College also struggled in the crippling economy forcing them to merge in 1933.
The New Deal established Sirrine Stadium and a new Greenville High School.
The Greenville Army Air Base was established in 1942 amid World War II contributing to the further expansion of Greenville. The last lynching in the South Carolina occurred in Greenville on February 16, 1947, when Willie Earle, accused of stabbing a cab driver, was taken from his jail cell by mob and murdered.
After World War II Greenville's economy surged with the establishment of new downtown stores and the expansion of the town/city limits.
Higher education facilities such as Bob Jones University in 1947 and Greenville Technical College in 1962 were established in Greenville.
The Greenville Spartanburg International Airport was established in close-by Greer in 1962.
The economy of Greenville finally waned in the 1970s leaving a void in downtown Greenville due to the flight of many retailers.
Mayor Max Heller revitalized downtown Greenville by establishing the Greenville County Museum of Art and the Hughes Main Library.
Greenville is positioned at 34 50 40 N 82 23 8 W (34.844313, 82.385428), roughly equidistant between Atlanta (145 miles [233 km] southwest), and Charlotte, North Carolina (100 miles [160 km] northeast).
Downtown Greenville from the air Greenville is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range, and includes many small hills.
Sassafras Mountain, the highest point in South Carolina, is in northern Pickens County, less than 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Greenville.
Many region tv and airways broadcast towers are on Paris Mountain, the second most prominent peak in the area, 8 miles (13 km) north of downtown Greenville.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Greenville has a total region of 28.8 square miles (74.6 km2), of which 28.7 square miles (74.3 km2) are territory and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km2), or 0.51%, are water. The Reedy River, a tributary of the Saluda River, runs through the center of the city.
Greenville is positioned in the Brevard Fault Zone and has had occasional earthquakes, though they are minor.
Greenville, like much of the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States, has a humid subtropical climate (Koppen Cfa), with four distinct seasons; the town/city is part of USDA Hardiness zone 7b/8a. Winters are short and generally cool, with a January daily average of 42.2 F (5.7 C).
Precipitation is generally less incessant in autumn than spring and, on average, Greenville receives 47.2 inches (1,200 mm) of rain annually, which is somewhat evenly distributed throughout the year, although summer is slightly wetter; annual rain has historically ranged from 31.08 in (789 mm) in 2007 to 72.53 in (1,842 mm) in 1908. In addition, there is an average of 4.7 inches (11.9 cm) of snow, occurring mainly from January thru March, with rare snow occurring in November or April.
More incessant ice storms and sleet different in with precipitation occur in the Greenville area; cyclic snow flurry has historically ranged from trace amounts as recently as 2011 12 to 21.4 in (54 cm) in 1935 36. These storms can have a primary impact on the area, as they often pull tree limbs down on power lines and make driving hazardous.
Climate data for Greenville, South Carolina (Greenville Spartanburg Int'l), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1884 present Main article: Government of the City of Greenville, South Carolina Greenville City Hall The town/city of Greenville adopted the Council-Manager form of municipal government in 1976. The Greenville City Council consists of the mayor and six council members.
Greenville Municipal Court handles criminal misdemeanor violations, traffic violations, and town/city ordinance violations. The Greenville Police Department was established in 1845 as the Greenville Police Force.
By 1876 the Greenville Police Force became the Greenville Police Department.
In 1976 the Greenville Police Department moved into the Greenville County Law Enforcement Center with the Greenville County Sheriff's Department.
The Greenville Police Department serves Greenville with around 241 employees with 199 sworn officers. As the biggest city in the Upstate, Greenville offers many activities and attractions.
Bon Secours Wellness Arena, the home of the Greenville Swamp Rabbits of the ECHL, is a 16,000-seat arena in downtown Greenville that opened in 1998 as the Bi-Lo Center. Centre Stage, Greenville's Professional Theater, a year-round theater hosting the annual New Play Festival.
It also hosts the Greenville Light Opera Works (GLOW), a experienced operetta company.
Fluor Field at the West End, home of the Greenville Drive baseball team, the Class-A partner of the Boston Red Sox.
Greenville Zoo Falls Park has been called the place of birth of Greenville, but in the mid-20th century the region was in harsh decline, and the Camperdown Bridge had been assembled across the Falls, obstructing view.
Greenville County Museum of Art specializing in American art, incessantly with a Southern perspective that dates back to the 18th century.
Greenville Zoo was established in 1960 and is positioned in Cleveland Park. Euphoria Greenville is an annual three-day culinary event held in the Wyche Pavilion at Larkin's on the River, Art in the Park, and the Peace Center for the Performing Arts. Fall for Greenville is a three-day music and food street festival held each fall. Big Fandom Greenville is a three-day comic book and science fiction convention held each October. The Greek Festival a three-day festival put on by the Greek Orthodox Church in downtown Greenville to jubilate Greek culture.
The Greenville County School District is the biggest school precinct in the state of South Carolina and ranked the 49th biggest precinct in the United States, with 14 high schools, 18 middle schools, and 50 elementary schools in the district. With a 2012 budget of $426 million, the precinct employs 5,200 teachers, 63.1% of which hold a master's degree or higher. In addition to traditional enhance schools, Greenville's downtown region is home to the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, a boarding school for young artists.
In addition to enhance schools, Greenville County has a number of private and theological schools, including St Mary's Catholic School (founded in 1900), Camperdown Academy (for students with learning disabilities), Hidden Treasure Christian School (a school for students with physical and/or mental disabilities), Christ Church Episcopal School (a college-preparatory Episcopalian school with an American school outside of Germany certified by the Bavarian Ministry of Education), Shannon Forest Christian School (an evangelical Christian school), Saint Joseph's Catholic School, Southside Christian School (established in 1967 by Southside Baptist Church), Hampton Park Christian School, and Bob Jones Academy and Elementary School.
Greenville has a several colleges and universities that first began with Furman University.
The theological school of Furman broke away in 1858 and became Southern Baptist Theological Seminary now in Louisville, Kentucky. North Greenville University was established in 1893 and is affiliated with the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Bob Jones University was established in 1927 by Bob Jones Sr.
As a private non-denominational Protestant university. Greenville Technical College was established in 1962 as a technical college.
Clemson University has a ground in Greenville called Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research that focuses on automotive research. The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville is a four-year medical school operating on the ground of the Greenville Health System. Greenville's economy was formerly based largely on textile manufacturing, and the town/city was long known as "The Textile Capital of the World".
General Electric has a gas turbine, aviation and wind energy manufacturing operations positioned in Greenville.
Greenville Memorial Hospital Greenville has two chief community systems, the Bon Secours St.
Francis Health System and the Greenville Health System.
The Greenville Health System (formerly known as Greenville Hospital System) is a not-for-profit academic medical center that includes seven campuses: Greenville Memorial Medical Center, North Greenville Long Term Acute Care Hospital and ER, Hillcrest Hospital, Patewood Memorial Hospital, Greer Memorial Hospital, Laurens County Memorial Hospital, and Oconee Memorial Hospital.
It hosts the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, a full four-year branch of the medical school in Columbia, SC.
Greenville is positioned on the Interstate 85 corridor, approximately halfway between Atlanta and Charlotte.
There are a several airports servicing the Greenville area.
Greenville serves as a freight core for Fed - Ex Express.
The Greenville Downtown Airport, is the busiest general aviation airport in South Carolina with nearly 80,000 take-offs and landings annually and more than 245 based airplane . Public transit in Greenville is handled by the Greenville Transit Authority (GTA), which contracted out operations to the City Of Greenville in 2008 under a tri-party agreement with Greenville County.
Greenlink runs a bus fitness that serves the Greenville area, much of Greenville County including Mauldin and Simpsonville, and a portion of Pickens County via a connector to Clemson.
Greenville has an Amtrak station, which is part of Amtrak's Crescent, connecting Greenville with the metros/cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans.
Additionally, Greenville is encompassed in the proposed Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor, which will run from Washington, D.C.
Interstate 85 runs by Greenville going through Interstate 185 (Greenville) and Interstate 385.
Interstate 385 ends in downtown Greenville and joins with Interstate 26.
Interstate 185 joins Interstate 385 to Interstate 85 south of Greenville.
Spectators at a Greenville Drive game Although Greenville never directly hosted a experienced sports team, the NFL team Carolina Panthers did briefly play in close-by Clemson for one season in 1995 while awaiting assembly of their stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Greenville Drive, a single A partner of the Boston Red Sox in the South Atlantic League.
Greenville has been titled one of the "Top 100 Arts Small Towns in the United States." The old Greenville County Courthouse Greenville County Museum of Art A number of small-town artists operate studios and arcades in the city, especially the Village of West Greenville near downtown.
The Metropolitan Arts Council and Upstate Visual Arts furnish a number of enhance affairs that focus on the visual arts, including the First Fridays Art Walk, Greenville Open Studios, and the West Greenville Arts Festival.
Greenville also provides some notable fine arts exhibitions: The Greenville County Museum of Art, home of the Andrew Wyeth Collection, was established with a momentous contribution from small-town industrialist, Arthur Magill. It contains pieces by Jackson Pollock, Jonathan Greene, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jasper Johns and William H.
The future of Greenville is presented visually in The Ecotopia 2121 Project (see: Ecotopia 2121 a book presented by Arcade Publishers).
Greenville's music scene features live performances by small-town jazz, country, and modern bands.
Lynyrd Skynyrd played their last concert with all initial members in Greenville, on October 19, 1977. The town/city is home to the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greenville County Youth Orchestra, Carolina Youth Symphony, and the Carolina Pops Orchestra.
Greenville Light Opera Works (GLOW Lyric Theatre) is a experienced lyric theatre in Greenville that produces Musical Theatre, Operetta and Opera.
Greenville is also the home of the Greenville Chorale, a 160-voice choral group.
Formed in 1993 by Greenville native Karl Sanders, ancient Egyptian-themed technical death metal band Nile is based in the city.
Centre Stage, Greenville Little Theater, South Carolina Children's Theater and the Warehouse Theatre are the primary playhouses in the area.
Greenville is also home to a grow civil dance scene.
The Greenville Lindy Hoppers meet weekly on Thursdays for beginner and intermediate Lindy Hop lessons, followed by a civil dance.
They also host The Greenville Lindy Exchange the last weekend of June every year, which draws hundreds of swing dancers from athwart the southeast to the Upstate. Greenville Blues hosts blues dances in the Greenville area.
The Harvest Moon Folk Society meets weekly to host a Contra dance at the River Falls Lodge and hosts Contra affairs in the downtown Greenville area. See also: List of newspapers in South Carolina, List of airways broadcasts in South Carolina, and List of tv stations in South Carolina The Greenville News building The Greenville News is the city's daily journal and also the Upstate's biggest daily journal in circulation and subscribers.
Greenville Journal: Weekly journal dealing with business, economic development, small-town events, and current issues relevant to Greenville.
It was originally the Greenville Civic and Commercial Journal Upstate Business Journal: Weekly company journal reaching 100,000 company leaders in Greenville, Spartanburg, and Anderson counties.
Greenville Business Magazine: Monthly periodical that contains company knowledge for and about the Greenville area.
Greenville HD: An all-video website that gives viewers a look at everything in Greenville, South Carolina.
Greenville is part of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson-Asheville DMA, which is the nation's 36th biggest tv market.
Television stations in the Western Carolinas, including Greenville - Spartanburg - Anderson, SC and Asheville, NC Greenville is part of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson Arbitron Metro which is the nation's 59th biggest radio market with a person 12+ populace of 813,700.
Radio stations in the Greenville Spartanburg (Upstate South Carolina) market Greenville is the biggest principal town/city of the Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin Metropolitan Statistical Area, a urbane region that covers Greenville, Laurens, Anderson and Pickens counties and had a combined populace of 874,869 as of 2015. Since South Carolina law makes annexing the suburban areas around metros/cities difficult, Greenville's populace is larger than what it is said to be.
Greenville Racial Breakdown of Population Neighborhoods inside the town/city of Greenville include: Max Heller, mayor of Greenville from 1971 to 1979; the Max Heller Convention Center is titled in his honor Luthi, mayor of Greenville from 1982 to 1983 White, Greenville lawyer and current mayor of Greenville since 1995 Cooper White, Jr., mayor of Greenville from 1969 to 1971 Bill Workman, mayor of Greenville from 1983 to 1995 and specialist in economic evolution Official records for Greenville kept April 1884 to 10 December 1941 at downtown, 11 December 1941 to 14 October 1962 at Greenville Downtown Airport, and at Greenville Spartanburg Int'l near Greer since 15 October 1962.
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