SPARTANBURG  , a thy and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Spartanburg county; See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South Carolina, U.S.A., about 94 M . N.W. of See also:

• COLUMBIA

Columbia . Pop . (1890), 5544; (1900), 11,395, of whom 4269 were negroes; (1910 See also:

• CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

census), 17,517 . Spartanburg is served by the South-ern, the See also:

• CHARLESTON

Charleston & Western Carolina (controlled by the See also:

• ATLANTIC

Atlantic See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

Coast See also:

• LINE

line), the Glenn Springs, the Carolina, Clinch-See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field & See also:

• OHIO

Ohio, and inter-See also:

• URBAN
• URBAN (Urbanus)

urban (electric) See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways . It is a thriving See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city in a See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton-growing and cotton-manufacturing region, about Boo ft. above the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea and 25 M . S.E. of the See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

Blue See also:

• RIDGE (a word. common to many Teutonic languages, meaning " back," whether of a man or an animal, cf. German Rucke)
• RIDGE, WILLIAM PETT (1864- )

Ridge . Spartanburg is the seat of Wofford See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (Methodist Episcopal, South; founded in 185o with a See also:

• BEQUEST (from 0. Eng. becwethan, to declare or express in words; cf. " quoth ")

bequest of See also:

• BENJAMIN
• BENJAMIN, JUDAHPHILIP (1811-1884)

Benjamin Wofford, a See also:

• LOCAL

local Methodist See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, and opened in 1854), which had, in 1908, 12 instructors and 286 students; also of Converse College (nonsectarian; for See also:

• WOMEN

women), which was founded by D . E . See also:

• CON

Con-See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse in 1889, opened in 189o, and in 1908 had 22 instructors and 355 students . An See also:

• ANNUAL

annual musical festival is held here under the auspices of the Converse College Choral Society . Four See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles south of the city, at See also:

• CEDAR (Lat. cedrus, Gr. iapos)

Cedar See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

Spring, is the South Carolina Institution for the See also:

• EDUCATION

Education of the See also:

• DEAF

Deaf and See also:

• BLIND, MATHILDE (1841—1896)

Blind, founded as a private institution in 1849 and taken over by the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state in 18J7 .

There are See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold-mines near the city; and Spartanburg county produces large crops of cotton . Cotton See also:

• MILLS, JOHN (d. 1736)
• MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832– )

mills are the basis of the city's prosperity, and it has also a large wholesale See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade, See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron-working establishments, and various manufactures . The value of its factory product was $2,127,702 in 1905, or 33.7°o more than in 1900 . Spartanburg was founded in 1787, and, although railway communication with Columbia and Charleston was opened in 1859, there was little growth until the See also:

• ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment of the first cotton See also:

• MILL
• MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
• MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
• MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
• MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)

mill in the vicinity in i88o; it was chartered as a city in this See also:

• YEAR

year .