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He helped the White Sox win the 1917 World Series, but he and 7 teammates were banned from baseball for fixing the 1919 Series. This house, where Jackson died in 1951, was moved here in 2006 and opened as a museum in 2008. \n\nErected by the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum and Baseball Library, 2011", "property3": "23-43" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.4091, 34.8416 ] }, "properties": { "title": "Allen Temple A.M.E. Church (*National Register Site)", "notes": "Allen Temple A.M.E. Church, built 1929-30, is significant as the first A.M.E. church in Greenville.", "property3": "" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.398889, 34.848333 ] }, "properties": { "title": "American Cigar Factory (*National Register Site)", "notes": "The American Cigar Factory was one of the largest brick buildings in Greenville when it was constructed ca. 1902 by the American Improvement Company. This building was one of five factories the American Cigar Company located in the South. Situated in the heart of the central business district, it employed 150 girls and young women when it began production. It is one of the largest brick masonry buildings remaining in the downtown area and reflects the industrial growth of Greenville at the turn of the century. 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Around this location grew up the community of Greenville Court House, laid out in 1797, the county seat for Greenville District.\n\nIn marking this site...the \"Cradle of Greenville\"...and building thereon its permanent home, the Citizens and Southern National Bank of South Carolina finds pleasure in this saluting a community widely acclaimed for its commercial, industrial and civic progress spanning the almost two hundred years of its life.\n\nThis plaque is presented to the Greenville Historical Society by the citizens and Southern National Bank of Greenville, South Carolina - 1962", "property3": "23-A06" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.395556, 34.849167 ] }, "properties": { "title": "Davenport Apartments", "notes": "", "property3": "" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.4025, 34.8525 ] }, "properties": { "title": "Downtown Baptist Church", "notes": "", "property3": "" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.412111, 34.837429 ] }, "properties": { "title": "E. 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The building housed a soft drink company for many years, and was used as a U.S.O. headquarters, particularly by airmen at Donaldson Air Force Base, during and after World War II. Long referred to as the \"Traxler Building,\" because it was owned by David Traxler, it was renovated in 1985 and is now known as Falls Place.", "property3": "23-A07" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.411111, 34.849167 ] }, "properties": { "title": "First National Bank", "notes": "", "property3": "" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.394444, 34.852778 ] }, "properties": { "title": "Fountain Fox Beattie House", "notes": "", "property3": "" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.38966666, 34.85711666 ] }, "properties": { "title": "Fountain Fox Beattie House \/ Greenville Woman's Club", "notes": "(Front) \nThis house, built in 1834, first stood a few blocks south on East North St. It was built by Fountain Fox Beattie (1807 1863), a textile merchant, for his new bride Emily Edgeworth Hamlin. Their son Hamlin Beattie (1835 1914), who founded the National Bank of Greenville in 1872, added wings and elaborate Italianate ornamentation. The house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. \n\n(Reverse) \nThe house remained in the Beattie family until 1946, when the city bought the property to widen Church St. When the house was moved to Beattie Place in 1948 it was leased to the women\u00ac\u00a5s organizations of Greenville. The Greenville Woman\u00ac\u00a5s Club officially opened in 1949. The house was moved a second time in 1983 to make room for downtown expansion. Member clubs maintain the house and gardens. \n\nErected by the Greenville Woman\u00ac\u00a5s Club, 1998", "property3": "23-24" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.403367, 34.840133 ] }, "properties": { "title": "Furman University", "notes": "Established 1825 by the S. C. 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It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. The largest lynching trial in U.S. history was held here May 12-21, 1947. Willie Earle, a young black man accused of assaulting white cabdriver Thomas W. Brown, had been lynched by a white mob on Bramlett Road in Greenville. \n\nTHE WILLIE EARLE LYNCHING TRIAL\n\n\nThe trial of 31 whites, 28 of them cabdrivers, was rare at the time and drew national attention. Though 26 defendants admitted being part of the mob, all defendants were acquitted by an all-white jury. Rebecca West\u00ac\u00a5s \u201a\u00c4\u00faOpera in Greenville,\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 published in The New Yorker on June 14, 1947, interpreted the trial and its aftermath. 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Its name was changed to Greenville Woman\u00ac\u00a5s College in 1914. It was coordinated with Furman University in 1933, merged with Furman in 1938, and moved in 1961 to the consolidated campus six miles north of town.\n\nErected by Furman University - 1975", "property3": "23-15" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.405833, 34.856111 ] }, "properties": { "title": "Hampton-Pinckney Historic District", "notes": "", "property3": "" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.390556, 34.876667 ] }, "properties": { "title": "The Hugh Aiken House \n(*National Register Site) ", "notes": "The Hugh Aiken House possesses architectural significance as one of William \u201cWillie\u201d Riddle Ward\u2019s most distinctive single-family residential designs. The house is a one and one-half story frame residence constructed in 1952. It was designed in 1948 by Ward, a notable Greenville architect, for Hugh K. 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He served South Carolina in the state legislature, 1816-1820, 1830-1832; and as chairman of the Board of Public Works, 1818-1820. He represented S. C. in Congress 1821-1825, was first American minister to Mexico, 1825-1829, and secretary of war, 1837-1841.\n\n(Reverse) \nPlanter, writer, botanist, diplomat, statesman, Joel R. Poinsett had a summer home near here dividing his time in later life between it and his plantation on the Pee Dee River. He brought the lovely poinsettia to this country from Mexico. His cultural interests and scientific pursuits with this political career earned him the title \"versatile American.\" He died December 12,1851, at Stateburg, S. 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The subject of a Cherokee myth (a brave was said to have thrown himself over the falls because of unrequited love) and of at least five published poems and several noted paintings, the falls became the favorite trysting place for young lovers as well as a resort for visitors and families. Dams above and below the falls created pools where children swam in the summer and skated in the winter. 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Sirrine & Co. at a cost of $130,000, was a five-story Renaissance Revival building; its facade featured a limestone tablet bearing the initials \u201a\"STE\" for \"Southern Textile Exposition\" and the words \"Textile Hall\" \n\n(Reverse) \nWhen built, Textile Hall was described as \u201a\" fitting monument to . . . the proper cooperative spirit.\" It hosted the Southern Textile Exposition from 1917 to 1962 and gave Greenville the title \"Textile Center of the South.\" It also hosted many other meetings and special events, such as the annual Southern Textile Basketball Tournament, with teams representing mills across the South. 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He served as governor of South Carolina from 1810 to 1812.\n\nErected by Behethland Butler Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution - 1964", "property3": "23-08" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.406181, 34.830712 ] }, "properties": { "title": "William and Harriet Wilkins House", "notes": "", "property3": "" } }, { "type": "Feature", "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -82.41231666, 34.83721666 ] }, "properties": { "title": "Working Benevolent Temple and Professional Building", "notes": "(Front) \nThe Working Benevolent Society Hospital, first known as St. Luke Colored Hospital, was a two-story frame building standing here at the corner of Green Avenue and Jenkins Street. Founded in 1920, it served blacks in Greenville for twenty-eight years. The Working Benevolent Grand Lodge of S.C., at Broad and Fall Streets in Greenville, operated the hospital from 1928 until it closed in 1948. \n\n(Reverse) \nThe hospital, described at its opening as \u201a\u00c4\u00faone of the most modern institutions in the South for colored people,\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 had three wards and twenty-two beds in semi-private and private rooms. Mrs. M.H. Bright was the first superintendent. A registered nurse and a graduate of the Tuskegee Institute, she had been superintendent of the Institute hospital. Most of the superintendents after her were nurses as well. \n\nErected by the Green Avenue Area Civic Association, 2003", "property3": "23-27" } } ] }