SPARTANBURG , a thy and the See also:county-seat of Spartanburg county; See also:South Carolina, U.S.A., about 94 M. N.W. of See also:Columbia. Pop. (1890), 5544; (1900), 11,395, of whom 4269 were negroes; (1910 See also:census), 17,517. Spartanburg is served by the South-ern, the See also:Charleston & Western Carolina (controlled by the See also:Atlantic See also:Coast See also:line), the Glenn Springs, the Carolina, Clinch-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field & See also:Ohio, and inter-See also:urban (electric) See also:railways. It is a thriving See also:city in a See also:cotton-growing and cotton-manufacturing region, about Boo ft. above the See also:sea and 25 M. S.E. of the See also:Blue See also:Ridge. Spartanburg is the seat of Wofford See also:College (Methodist Episcopal, South; founded in 185o with a See also:bequest of See also:Benjamin Wofford, a See also:local Methodist See also:minister, and opened in 1854), which had, in 1908, 12 instructors and 286 students; also of Converse College (nonsectarian; for See also:women), which was founded by D. E. See also:Con-See also:verse in 1889, opened in 189o, and in 1908 had 22 instructors and 355 students. An See also:annual musical festival is held here under the auspices of the Converse College Choral Society. Four See also:miles south of the city, at See also:Cedar See also:Spring, is the South Carolina Institution for the See also:Education of the See also:Deaf and See also:Blind, founded as a private institution in 1849 and taken over by the See also:state in 18J7. There are See also:gold-mines near the city; and Spartanburg county produces large crops of cotton. Cotton See also:mills are the basis of the city's prosperity, and it has also a large wholesale See also:trade, See also:iron-working establishments, and various manufactures. The value of its factory product was $2,127,702 in 1905, or 33.7°o more than in 1900. Spartanburg was founded in 1787, and, although railway communication with Columbia and Charleston was opened in 1859, there was little growth until the See also:establishment of the first cotton See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill in the vicinity in i88o; it was chartered as a city in this See also:year.
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