Spartanburg
a city and countyseat of Spartanburg co., S. C.; on the the Glenn Springs, the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio and South Carolina , the Charleston and Western Carolina, and the Southern railroads; 98 miles N. of Columbia. Here are Wofford College (M. E., S.), Converse College for Women, Converse College, State Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, Kennedy Public Library, street railroad and electric light plants, National and State banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. It has cotton mills, ironworks, lumber mills, limestone quarries, and iron mines. When the United States entered the World War in 1917 one of the 16 divisional cantonments, Camp Wadsworth, for the training of National Guard troops, was established near the town. Most of the New York State troops were trained there. Pop: (1910) 17,517; (1920) 22,638.
SPEAR a Manual for Teachers" (1907); and compiled several graded readers.