Morgan Square, Spartanburg, showing the Confederate monument and City Hall around 1907. First known as "Public Square," it was created in 1787 as a public pasture, and renamed after a statue of...
Spartanburg County was created out of the old Ninety Six District in 1785, but there were settlements in the area as early as 1761, primarily of Scotch-Irish from Pennsylvania and Virginia. Known only...