Hub City’s history titles tell the Upstate’s cultural, social and economic stories, from early settlement through war, Industrial Revolution, and development of an urban center.
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Come to Cow Pens!
Daniel Morgan was known as the best horseman, the fastest runner, the
fiercest fighter and the strongest wrestler. On a bitter cold day in
January 1781, at an upcountry cattle pasture known as "the cow pens,"
the cantankerous brigadier general led an army of militiamen,
Continental soldiers and cavalry in a stunning defeat of the British.
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Textile Town
In 1816 a pair of Rhode Island brothers stopped their wagons along the
Tyger River, cleared away trees and chinquapin thickets, and began
construction on a rustic spinning factory. From those humble beginnings
arose one of the nation's mightiest textile communities, a place that
by the end of the 19th century became known as "the Lowell of the
South."
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Hub City Music Makers
Hub City Music Makers focuses on the popular musicians from Spartanburg
and chronicles their influence on the music world at large. Against the
backdrop of Spartanburg's century-old classical music tradition, Music
Makers tells the story of the city's other exports--from blues and jazz
musicians of the '30s, the the country stars launched by WSPA Radio, to
Southern Rock's own Marshall Tucker Band and beyond.
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Seeing Spartanburg
Twenty years ago, Philip Racine's pictorial history of Spartanburg took
readers on a visual tour of our city. Treasured by teachers and local
history aficionados, Racine's book remained in demand long after it
went out of print. Now Racine's book is back -- in a tremendously
expanded form with twice the number of photographs, and this time,
loaded with historic Spartanburg objects as well. Seeing Spartanburg:
A History in Images, a 376-page, large-format book, is the best-selling
title of Spartanburg's Hub City Writers Project.
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