Spartanburg, SC news and local guide

In the late 19th century Spartanburg became a center of textile manufacturing, and about 40 mills were built by the early 1900s. In 1911, sponsored by the Spartanburg Herald and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the city put up a Confederate monument at South Church and Henry streets overlooking downtown, which was moved to Duncan Park in 1966. During World War I about 100,000 soldiers trained at Camp Wadsworth, and Camp Croft trained soldiers in World War II before the land was turned over to the state as Croft State Park. By the 1950s production at the mills had begun to fall as wages rose, and most of the textile jobs eventually moved overseas. Sources Wikipedia: Spartanburg, South Carolina