UNION  , a

town and the county-seat of Union county, South Carolina, U.S.A., about 66 m . N.W. of Columbia . Pop . (1900) 5400, of whom 1701 were negroes; (U.S. census 1910) 5623 . Union is served by the Southern and the Union & Glenn Springs railways; the latter connects at Pride, 16 m. distant, with the Seaboard Air Line . The city is situated in the Piedmont region near the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains . It is the seat of Clifford Seminary for Young Women (opened, 1881; chartered, 1883), and has a Carnegie library . Union is in a rich cotton-growing, farming and fruit-growing region, and deposits of gold, magnetic iron ore, marble and granite are found . The town has several large cotton mills and a large knitting mill . Union was settled about 1755 and was incorporated as a town in 1872 .