SPARTANBURG, S. C., city and county seat of Spartanburg County, situated at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on the main line of the Southern Railway, and on the Charleston and Western Carolina, the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio, and the Piedmont and Northern railroads, about 100 miles northwest of Columbia. The city is within a few hours of the great eastern markets and the coal fields of Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. It is an agricultural region in which cotton is the principal product. It has an agreeable climate, without extremes. The average annual rainfall is 54 inches and the average temperature 51° F. The educational institutions include Wofford College for Young Men; Converse College for Young Women; Cecil's Business College; several private schools and a first-class public school system. The city is the home of the South Atlantic States Music Festival. It has 100 miles of paved sidewalks and 16 miles of paved streets. The eight city banks have combined resources amounting to $11,400,000; postal receipts in 1917-18 amounted to $338,000, due to the prox imity of Camp Wadsworth, where 125,000 sol diers were trained. The tax valuation of the city is $10,000,000, an increase of 34 per cent since 1915. The city has a fine Y. M. C. A.
building, Y. W. C. A., several churches, five hospitals and several clPbs.
Spartanburg County ranks first in South Carolina in invested capital and value of annual products of industrial ooncerns, nearly all of which are located in Spartanburg. The aver age cotton crop is 68000 bales, while 147,000 bales are manufactured. There are 27 mill cor porations operating 36 mills, with 834,000 spin dles and 20,600 looms. The value of the manu factured product is $35,000,000. The capital invested amounts to $14,600,000. The city has excellent hotels, two of which are modern fire proofed structures. The city has adopted the commission form of government. The site of Camp Wadsworth, embracing 1,350 acres with perfect water and sewerage systems, has been purchased from the government and is being offered for suburban homes and industrial de velopment. There is a municipally owned water-system in Spartanburg, with a capacity of 10,000,000 gallons. Pop. within corporate limits, 25,000; including suburbs, 35,000.