North of Main: Spartanburg's Historic Black Neighborhoods of North Dean Street, Gas Bottom, and Back of the College

by Brenda Lee Pryce, Betsy Wakefield Teter, Jim Neighbors

New neighborhoods began emerging north of Main Street in Spartanburg, South Carolina in the 1870s as emancipated Black men and women spent their hard-won post-slavery wages to purchase lots and build homes. As the decades rolled by, they and their descendants established a string of neighborhoods encompassing hundreds of houses, stretching from modern-day Barnet Park to the edge of Spartanburg Medical Center.

North of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CQ7TDGW2
• ISBN13: 9798885740401
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Hub City Press
• Length: 250 Pages