Canning Vegetables | Digital Traditions
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Rebecca Hill describes her process for canning vegetables.Photo
Greenwood
Lying in the Lower Piedmont of South Carolina’s Upstate, Greenwood County resulted from a merger of Abbeville and Edgefield counties in 1897.
Lying in the Lower Piedmont of South Carolina’s Upstate, Greenwood County resulted from a merger of Abbeville and Edgefield counties in 1897. Greenwood County was named after its county seat, and the county seat’s name honors area local John McGehee’s plantation.
The county’s railroad augmented the rise of cotton growing and the textile manufacturing industry in the county. Food processing, life science, and advanced materials lead the county’s economy today. The county is also known as the home of Lander University, a small public university, and Lake Greenwood.
Area Info & History. Accessed June 06, 2016. https://www.greenwoodcounty-sc.gov/
Benefits of a Brick Furnace | Digital Traditions
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Baylor discusses the benefits of using a brick furnace.
Amos Baylor Photos | Digital Traditions
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Vegetable farmer and cane-syrup/molasses maker from Greenwood, SC (Greenwood County). Interview conducted by Anne Kimzey.
Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894-1984) | Road Trip
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Benjamin Elijah Mays was born in the town of Epworth, southeast of Greenwood, August 1894. A son of former slaves, Mays' childhood played a key role in shaping the man that he would become. His...
