Glenn Springs, So

Wofford College Digital Commons @ Wofford Local History Manuscript Collection 1888 Glenn Springs, So. Ca. : its location, discovery, history, personal sketches of its habitues, what it will cure, &c. Trimmier's Printing Officend a Book Store Simpson & Simpson Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/localhist Part of the American Material Culture Commons, American Popular Culture Commons, Cultural History Commons, Native American Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Other History Commons, Public History Commons, Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Trimmier's Printing Office and Book Store and Simpson & Simpson, "Glenn Springs, So. Ca. : its location, discovery, history, personal sketches of its habitues, what it will cure, &c." (1888). Local History. Book 3. http://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/localhist/3 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Manuscript Collection at Digital Commons @ Wofford. It has been accepted for inclusion in Local History by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Wofford. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ITS LOCATION DISCOVERY HISTORY PERSONAL SKETCHES OF ITS HABTUES ) SPARTANBURGSC.: TRIMMIER"S PRINTINGOFFICE ANDBOOKSTORE 1888. GLENN SPRINGSSWATER ALWAYS FOR SALE AT TRIMMIER'S + BOOK+ STORE and PRIP NTINGOFFICE Main Streetabove Merchants Hotel SPARTANBURGS C ~ c::> ~ ITS+ LOCATION DISCOVERYHISTORY PERSONAL SKETCHES OF ITS HABITUES of 0 ~ Estimates for Job Printing and PricesOfBook Store MERCIIANDISE Generally Furnished on Short Notice and SatisfactionGuaranteed in Every Instance. TRIMMIER'SBOOKSTORE - Is also the Branch Office at Spartanburg S. C., for the FAMOUSGLENNSPRINGS The Western llnion TelegraphOfficeislocated 'in same building up stairs SPARTANBURG S C. : T. J. TR IMMIER. Propriet or Trimmier's Printing OfficeandBook Store, Trimmier'sPrinting Officeand Book Store J 1888. GLENN Springs DISCOVERED or ' The season of 1877, at Glenn purpose of visiting this portion of i Springs, S. C., was unusually bril- the country. H e haJ been sent out : liant The gloom which had over- by companies of manufacturers and miners to investigate and report up- shadowed the State while under on its capabilities in these respects; Carpet-bagr ule, bad just been dis- but he was aswilling to impart as to pelled, and the gallant H ampton was receive information. He was entire- INTRODUCTION. ' firmly seated in the guber natonal ly familiar with the Geological re- chair. New life was infused among ports of the Stateby Profs. Tourney all classes. Hopes which had been and Leiber, and could designate In presentingthis little volume, it is w ith the hope lhal it will not find its way almost dead, was revived, and many, more accurately than I could, the directly lo the waste basket-as such pamphlets too often do without their me rits very many, had resor ted to this cele- various points of interest, which he being known--but thatit will be read by everyone into whose handsit may fall. brated watering place, and fountain desired to examane, in this wonder- of health, for rest and recreation to ful Piedmont region. Of course, If youaresuffering with Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, Chronic H eptatitis, Jaun- enable them to meet more energet- the first thing which attracted his dice, Torpor of Liver, and General D ebility following upon Malarial Diseases ically the hopes and expectations of attention, was the wonderful Springs. Dropsy, Diarrhoea Dysentery, Constipation, H e morrhoids, Uterine Renal and the future. There was there the He soondiscovered that their ingre- 'I Cystic Diseases l:-Jaematuria, R heumat ism, Catamenial Derangement, and other grave and dignified judge-the as- dients were Sulphur, Magnesia and Female Complaints, you will find here the means of a sure and speedy relief. Or if tute lawyer, the laborious planter, Lime, combined in such proportions you expect to leave home for the summeryou will find here inte resting descriptions ' the enterprising merchant and the and such intimacv, as to mock the of South Carolina's favorite resort. pious divine, with their wives and efforts of the most skilful Pharma- daughters Wit, mirthand hilarity ceutist; and his opinion as to their Or if youare neither sicknor expect to leave home for the summeryou will find ' abounded. All seemed to feel that remedial efficacy, corresponded fully this a n interesting little volume, containing a romance of the discovery of G lenn they were again free. with the experience of the many Springsin the time of t:1e Indians ; its re-discovery by the white m an. and its !, Among the many visitors, how- gratefulvisitors who have been bene- history, with personal sketches of some of South Carolina's distinguished men, who ever, who gave tone and character, fi tted by them. were constant visitors at this fountain of health ; and other description of Glenn and interest to this distinguished as- He next turned his attention to Springs as a SummerResort and accounts cf the wonderful results from the useof ' semblage, none attracted more atten- the mining capabilities of the coun- this water.. tion than a young English gentle- try. II SIMPSON& SIMPSON man, who had justarrived from the He was aware of the location of Proprr EToR s. old country He was apparently the Fair Forest gold mines in the about twenty-fiveor thirty years of vicinity of Glenn Springs, and we age. His manners wasas genial and visitedthem. Coming as he did from as unaffected as a child's, and his a country where mining is prosecu- learning was accurate and profound. ted as a systematic industry, and up- i H e had devoted himself to the study on scientific principles, he was of of the physical sciences, especially course struck with the slovenly and Geology, Mineralogy and Mining. inefficient manner which had been Whilemodest and unassuming in his adopted in developing these mines, scientific acquirements, yet, Le was but his practiced and scientific eye ready and willing to share his great soon discovered their great value, storewith others. To me, who had and he predicted thatat some future just begun to turn attention to these day the mines of this region would studi es, he was altogether indispen- be more important and remunerative sable, and he was as kind as indis- than those of ( 'alifornia and Colo- pensable. H e made no secretof his rado. ' 4 THE LOST AMULET THE LOST AMULET 5 They had never been worked lower shine as it dances over the broken many quaint and curious volumes of it wasto me again exceedingly in- than the water level, ,and none of edges of the rock, and again hiding "forgottten lore," as Poe, the po- teresting. and I am sure it will be them had yet reached the granite, itself in the deep shadows of the et of America, has it, and many man- to vou. where he believed with Profs. Tou- vine clad trees." At Musgroves, uscripts containing incidents of the Pleaseaccept my grateful recol- meyand Lieber, that the most as- Van Pattons and numerous other personal history of my ancestors, lections of your kindness to me tonishing results would be obtained. placeson this noble st.ream the falls which had been kept up for genera- while at Glenn Springs, and the as- From these interesting mines we areequally as interesting, and it is tions Among these, was one con- surance of my highest regard. went to the iron region of the county, impossible to examine them without taining the adventures of my great- Verytruly, and he was more astonished at the rich being struck with the great facilities grand-father, subsequently the Duke George LANCAS'fER. field here opened for remunerative which they afford at small cost, for of Lancaster in the province of South industry, than with the mines of the manufacturing purposes. At Trough Carolina about the year 1760 Some NARRATIVE. Shoals, on the Pacolet, this magnifi- more precious metals. Said he, look- of the incidents I remember, distinct- I "th tbe custom ing at the group of rocks, containing cent stream rushes through a crevice ly, but not enough to give you now n accordance ance wi I the magnetic ore of iron, the redand in the rock, only eight feet wide, at t d t f th Th and injunctions of mv ancestors, brown hematites, the limestone and an inclination of twenty feet in sixty a clotnndec e accountt th . ey proceed to give some of the most flexible quartz for fluxing, "herewe chains crashing like pipe stems the corare ale , andasd t oetihev~d? e iscovery is p1oefcethoi·s important. and striking incidents of have iron ore of nearly every species toughest, and the most obstinate wonde1ful Spring. When I go my hfe- f fif and of the very best quality, with timber thrown in to impede its pro- h I ill d 0 f the I am now an old man, and or ty rocks for firestone and fluxing, all on gress. ome ~1t :en .J~u ~cohy d and years or more my life has been a the banks of a noble stream capable 'Ihose were some of the natural manuscript o .w i?n . a u. e, . t hum-drum affair. I can recall noth- whichI am surewillbe an interest- . o- d ·i all this Ion time that is of affording abundant water power. and almost undeveloped resources mg chapter in your local history. mo ur ng . g of the region of country, which im- Theresources of your country, sir, p this · 0 i 1 ·th the worthy of mention or remembrance. are illimitable." pressed Mr. Lancaster, the English tlbace is. piece h. coral '~t1 1 During the winter I have generally gentleman, of whom we have spoken o er specimens w ic w1 e_ave, pent my time in town and the rest With Profs.

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