Greenville County, South Carolina: From Cotton Fields to Textile Center of the World

by Ray Belcher

Book Overview

Amid the devastation left in South Carolina by the War Between the States, one of the few intact remnants of the pre-war life was a tiny cotton textile industry. For decades prior to the Civil War, the upstate textile industry rested unobtrusively near Greenville, its center of production, surrounded by former plantation fields of cotton. Now, when its state needed it the most, the textile industry, empowered by the vision of Greenville's Henry P...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596291540
• ISBN13: 9781596291546
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 9.7"