Photograph: Greer town square and oil mill c. 1908

Title

Photograph: Greer town square and oil mill c. 1908

Accession Number

2023.66.1

Accession Date

11 April 2023

Accession Creator

David Lovegrove

Depositor

Found in Collection

Description

Photograph of the town square, located where the P&N depot is now, about 1908. This is almost certainly a photograph of a Sales Day, which functioned much like a farmer's market. Taken from the 2nd-floor balcony of the Raymond Hotel at the corner of Randall and Trade. The large building complex in the top right is the Greer Cottonseed Oil Company, and most of the buildings to its left are either cotton or cottonseed warehouses, or guano (fertilizer) warehouses. See the annotated image for the identification of each known building. On the far left is a white building; this was the first town hall. At the time of this photograph, it was reportedly being used as the town jail. The small gazebo beside it is a well. The buildings along the top are all lining the Southern railroad tracks; the depot is just out of the picture to the right.

Written on the front: "Early Greer around where railroad tracks run." Written on the back: "Big Field near Southern Depot near Randall. c 1900"

Date

c. 1908

Format

photograph

Storage Location

General Archive Box #1 Folder #16