in Greenville, South Carolina
May 13, 2010
May 13, 2010
in Greenville, South Carolina May 13, 2010 |
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| 1. Valley Park Resort in Travelers Rest,
South Carolina and Downtown Greenville and some History of the area (this
page) 2. The Liberty Bridge at Falls Park, Greenville, South Carolina (link at the bottom of this page) |
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Valley Park Resort (Formerly Dogwood
RV Park) in the beautiful Upstate of South Carolina at the foothills
of the Blue Ridge Mountains, nestled in a valley with a very tranquil
creek that runs the whole length of the property. |
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Below: The new yard of
the two RV Gypsies in the campground - their toad and RV. |
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Below: The private stream
that runs through the campground. Some sites backed up to this stream. |
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Greenville, South Carolina |
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| Greenville is the seat of Greenville County, in upstate South Carolina, and the largest city of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson Combined Statistical Area (CSA). The CSA, an 8-county region of northwestern South Carolina, is known as "The Upstate." Greenville is located approximately halfway between Atlanta, Georgia and Charlotte, North Carolina. Size of Greenville is about 26.1 square miles. | |
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Below: Lee Duquette and the Michelin
Tire Guy |
Below: A cute and very unique chair |
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| Downtown Greenville has developed into a dining/entertainment destination. With over sixty restaurants and pubs centered around Main Street, Greenville's Downtown offers the greatest concentration of dining options in the entire Upstate area. From April through September, weekly concerts ranging from folk to jazz entertain visitors three nights a week while larger Downtown celebrations mark the coming of each new season. With almost 200 event days a year, Greenville leads the region in hosting visitors. The two RV Gypsies really liked this area. | |
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Below: A plaque in the
sidewalk - honoring Wilson Cooke |
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Major Industries - farming (tobacco, soybeans), textiles, manufacturing chemicals, processed foods, machinery, electronics, paper products, tourism |
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| South Carolina was named to honor King Charles
I (Carolus is Latin for Charles). State Nickname - Palmetto State State Motto - "Dum Spiro Spero" - While I breathe, I hope State Song - Carolina State Bird - Great Carolina Wren |
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The state flag of South Carolina was officially adopted in 1861. It has a white crescent and a white palmetto tree on a blue ground. Three white crescents (on a blue background) were first used on a South Carolina banner protesting the Stamp Act in 1765. |
| In 1775, Colonel William Moultrie designed a banner for South Carolina troops; it had a white crescent on a blue field. When South Carolina seceded from the Union, the palmetto tree was added to the flag. The palmetto tree was chosen because this tree had helped South Carolinians defeat the British in a battle at Sullivan's Island (during the Revolutionary War). The South Carolinians built a fort out of palmetto wood, and when the British fired cannonballs at the fort, instead of knocking the fort down, the soft palmetto wood just absorbed the cannonballs. | |
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South Carolina was the 8th state in the USA; it became a state on 
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