Greenville History Tours

01/21/2025

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01/21/2025

Get it on your calendar!

CLICK ON THE BANNER ABOVE to Register now for the Greenville County Historical Society Lecture Series 2024-25! For the next year, every 3rd Thursday of the month, beginning June 20, 2024, GCHS will present a different lecture in the series on many different historical topics and stories. Our panel o...

01/19/2025

Big Chuck had a busy, chilly walking tour day today. 2 happy customers from Sacramento CA this morning; 2 happy customers from Duluth, Minnesota this afternoon!

01/19/2025

Wow. Two years ago I only dreamed of owning any original artifacts from the iconic Mansion House hotel (1824-1924) at Court Square. I already own a Mansion House cigar token and 2 letterheads/stationary from 1886. Yesterday I received my 4th piece of history from that hotel. It's an 1893 stationary envelope from the hotel...addressed to Capt Robert H Wright in Newberry SC (a Civil War veteran and later store merchant). The Mansion House logo on this envelope is very unusual and "artsy." I'm also attaching another Mansion House envelope from 3 years earlier (1890) that looks much more in keeping with usual fonts/styles from the late 1800s.

01/17/2025

The two residential buildings will be located in the development’s second phase, Mosaic Townes, consisting of 22 buildings.

01/17/2025

A study by U-Haul has found that South Carolina, for the first time ever, is growing faster than any state across the country.

01/17/2025

The nearly $2 billion upfit expanded the assembly hall by more than 50 percent and will allow for the assembly of fully electric, hybrid and internal combustion engines.

01/16/2025

Sadly, Ruth Ann Butler has passed away.

01/15/2025

2 happy guests from Chicago on a Big Chuck walking tour today👍

01/14/2025

Council gave final approval for the city to enter into a development agreement to build a new West End parking garage.

01/13/2025

The Greenville location marks the first in South Carolina for Roam, which currently operates in Georgia and Texas.

01/13/2025

Big Chuck and Trish started our morning off today with delicious cup of coffee at this place in Greenville. A cup here always comes with a little extra….a big dose of inspiration! Check it out here http://inspire.coffee/

01/13/2025

Thank you Access Carolina for having me on today to talk great homes and historic neighborhoods on my tour! I'll be sharing much more about this subject in our Greenville County Historical Society lecture series this Thursday, Jan. 16th, at First Presbyterian Church of Greenville at 6:30pm! Sign up at www.greenvillehistory.org

Greenville History Tours' John Nolan shares fascinating stories and facts about some of Greenville's oldest neighborhoods.

01/12/2025

“Great Graves of Greenville.” Big Chuck was surprised at this story!
Famous Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein’s 5 year old grandson, Klaus, is buried in Greenville’s Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery! Albert Einstein's son, Hans, lived in Greenville, living at 223 Randall Street in 1938. It was here that his son, the great Albert Einstein’s grandson, died of diptheria at age 5 on January 5, 1939. James F. Mackey & Sons conducted the funeral. While I was strolling through this historic cemetery, this was undoubtedly a remarkable, poignant grave to come upon (Section U).

01/11/2025

I was thrilled to make this new acquisition. Prior to the civil war, there were no banks in Greenville. Hamlin Beattie was a prominent local merchant who was also the local agent for the Bank of Charleston. After the war in 1872, he started the first bank here, First National of Greenville, with a capital stock of $100,000. Very few artifacts remain from Greenville earliest years of its first bank. This is a personal check from 1877 (just 5 years after the bank started) of local attorney, Isaac M. Bryan, writing a check to himself for $5 on a check with the logo of First National Bank of Greenville.

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