GREENWOOD, a city in the Piedmont section of western South Carolina, U.S.A., at an altitude of 67of t. ; the county seat of Greenwood county. It is on Federal highway 25, and is served by the Charleston and Western Carolina, the Georgia and Florida, the Piedmont and Northern (electric), the Seaboard Air Line and the Southern railways. The population was 8,703 in 1920 (33% negro) and was 11,020 in 1930 by the Federal census. It is an im portant trading centre for the western part of the State; is the seat of Lander college for women (1872) and Bailey military institute; and has large cotton mills, with 3,500 looms and over 150,000 spindles in 1928. The town was founded about 1872, incorporated in 1891 and chartered as a city in 1926.