The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 18, 1919, Image 3
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Histori
Due to the fact, that the land on
which the present town of Greelyville
is located was purchased fortyfive
vears aco for one dollar per acre.
making a total of $64000 for the
tract of land, which now comprises
the city limits, and which same
amount of land together with all improvements
is now worth in the neighborhood
of a million and a half dollars,
would really be an astounding
and remarkable statement to fake but
for the fact that this wonderful
growth is only a fair representation
of how this section of the old Palmetto
State and our beautiful Southland
is going forwara in leaps and bounds.
However, Greelyville has really made
wonderful progress and at a great
deal more rapid pace than some of
our other towns and communities in j
Williamsburg and surrounding coun- j
ties.
The little city is located on the
high and healthful ridge of fertile
land lying between the Black and j
Santee rivers, being also on the main
line of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail- j
road between Sumter and Charleston j
and is, therefore, the natural outlet I
for the varied agricultural products [
grown on this probably as fertile and
productive, land as lies within the
state.
The DODulation. totaling about'
twelve hundred, is made up of prosperous,
law abiding, progressive citizens,
who are ever looking to the improvement
of their town in every way
possible and all are striving and expecting
to progress much more rapidly
in the future than in the past.
In 1872 the late Mr. Samuel J.
Taylor came to the present site of
Greelyville and formed a co-partnership
with Mr. S. J. Hutson for the
purpose of manufacturing turpentine
and rosin and proceeded to purchase
several hundred acres of fine timber
land. Mr. Taylor later bought out Mr.
Hutson's interest in the turpentine
firm and took in his orotner-in-iaw, |
Mr. W. S. Vainer, who remained
with him until his death. Mr. Taylor
was a natural bom naval stores man
and his experience in the business
met with marked success, thereby
forming the foundation of his estate.
After fifteen years in the turpentine
business, his local supply of timber
being exhausted, he gave up his original
intention of removing his turpentine
equipment and setting up elsewhere,
but preferred to remain at his
present home, which by now he had
become very much attached to, both
sentimentally and on account of the
fact that he had acquired veiy large
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CARRIES ONE OF THE MOST
SONABLE GOODS IN WILLI;
LINE OF CRADDOCK TERR^
DOLLY MADISON SHOES.
WE ARE OUTFITTERS
WHETHER IT BE CLOTHING
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YOUR WANTS FULLY AND 1
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MARKET AFFORDS AS CHEA!
A LARGE ASSORTMENT
CARRIED IN STOCK.
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i land holdings and had commenced a
j prosperous and promising mercantile
j business. Mr. Taylor spent the reI
mair.der of his days in farming and
i the mercantile business, he finally being
succeeded in the latter by his son,
I It was the one and great desire of
the late Mr. Taylor to found a town
' on the spot where he had settled back
in the woods in 1872. To this end he
would practically give any good citii
zen a lot. provided he would build a
: decent house and live in the town. No
other man gave more assistance nor
put forth any greater effort in furthj
ering Mr. Taylor's scheme along this
, line than Mr. T. W. Boyle, who is
i classed by most as Greelyville's lead|
ing citizen at the present day. Mr.
j Taylor, owning practically all the
: land where the present town site is,
took great pleasure in donating the
land for the present system of streets,
as well as the land for the school
houses and churches. These two men
were principally responsible for the
fine beautifully shaded streets which
the town now affords and they always
cooperated fully in any matters pertaining
first to the laying off and
building of the town and later to the
development^ and uplift of the town
and community.
Mr. T. W. Boyle first came to this
town 1886, when it was then known
as Taylor's Still and only a flag stop
on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad,
which railroad was built through
this section in 1880. Mr. Boyle first
went to work with the saw mijl of
Hogan & Hogan, which commenced
the manufacture of yellow pine lumber
in 1885, and a few months later
upon the death of Mr. Samuel Hogan,
went into the firm, which was then
called Boyle & Hogan, which continued
under this name for five years
when Mr. E. G. Mallard went into
the fii m and the style of the firm was
changed to the Mallard Lumber Company,-it
being mutually agreed to
name the company after the oldest
member, and the concern has gone
under this name until the present day,
Mr. T. W. Boyle, being Vive-President.
Mr. Boyle takes great pleasure
in stating that when he came to the
present spot of Greelyville that there
was only one store and two dwellings j
here, the nearest school being five!
miles away and the nearest telegraph |
office and stop for passenger trains
being Foreston, a distance of six miles.
Mr. Boyle has developed into one of
the most public spirited and progres-!
sive mfn not only of his own town j
and community but is well known in 1
many ways throughout the entire;
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State. His financial progress has been
nothing short ol remarkable, as he
came to this town merely as an em
ployee in a saw null and is, at the
present time, worth probably in the
neighborhood of a million dollars. He
is interested in many important commercial
enterprises of the State and
in a large number of such in his home
town, notably among his Greelyville
interests being the Mallard Lumber
Company, of which he is vice-president,
Lank of Greelyville, of which
he is president; Greelyville Land &
Improvement Company, Taylor Gin
Company, Boyle Hardware Company
and, in aduition to these is one of the
largest farm land owners in the county
of Williamsburg. He is an honored
christian gentleman, a most valuable ,
citizen of town county and state.
The town of Greelyville secured its
name from the late Horace Greely,
as about the time the Honorable
Horace Greely was so prominent in
national politics, always showing the
part of leniency towards the South
during the re-construction period,
this little settlement in the woods
was shaping itself into a town and,
through their admiration for Mr.
Greely, its citizens decided to call the
little village Greelyville. The town of
Greelyville was incorporated in the
year 1894 and has a splendid form of
government, the key note to which is
to always give the fullest amount of
protection to its citizens with the
smallest rate of taxation possible.
Its present Mayor is Mr. Ben S.
Fleming and its town Clerk Mr.
George Green. The town has a spacious
town hall, splendid school buildings
and churches and a good private
electric lighting plant and telephone
system and looks forward to having
in the near future water works, sewage,
fire protection, white way and
complete system of paved streets.
Especially during the past five
years has the town experienced a remarkable
boom and commercial
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ness section of the town has doubled
in worth and size. Notably among
the improvements during the years
1918 and 1919 are the Mallard
Lumber Company to their commissary
and office $25,000; S. V. Taylor's Department
Store, $12,000 dadition and
interior improvements; Enterprise
Mercantile Company, entire new store
and refrigeration plant, $15,000; i
Farmers Tobacco Warehouse, entire
new building, which is now used as
Bonded Cotton Warehouse No. 42 of
the State of South Carolina. $25,000;
Ford Motor Company, now under
construction, garage and show rooms.;
$10,000.
In addition to the above mentioned
improvements during the last two
years, there are many new buildings,
and establishments planned for the
very near future, the exact time for
their completion is only measured by
the time it will take to get the much
needed building material, which the j
whole country is clamoring tor aur-1
ini?- these war times.
Headed by Mr. T. \V. lloyle, a|
movement is on foot for the establish- i
ment of a cotton mill here, the site j
for which has already befn selected
and set aside An lip-to-date cotton i
mill of, at least. 10.000 spindles,
equiped with the best machinery and !
best housing and living conditions for I
employees is planned.
Composed of Mr. Joe K. Allsbrook,
Mr. Henry Ferrell and other, is the
Planters Gin & Trading Company,
who now operate an up-to-date ginnery
and who contemplate installing
an ice plant just as soon as the necessary
ice machinery can be purchased,
which they have so far found to
be almost an impossibility. They
will install an ice plant with at least
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iu ion daily capacity, wnicn win mne
care of the local needs of the community.
There is also a movement in the
air to erect an oil mill in Greelyville
for the refinement of cotton seed oil
and its products but the people backing
this project state that it is not
far enough along yet to make any
devnite announcements.
Already under construction is the
new 50x100 foot brick garage and
show rooms of the Ford Motor Company,
which will cost in the neighborhood
of $10,000, when completed. The
Ford agency will be under the supervision
of Mr. W. C. Plowden, of New
Zion, and Mr. G. T. Mcintosh, local
manager at Greelyville. who will be
able to offer Ford patrons the best
service obtainable when this building
is completed in the way of parts, accessories
and modern show rooms.
Dr. Hazedden is nearing completion
of his brick building, which Kvill cost
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approximately $6,000, and will be oc- tl
cupied by himself. b<
Brick and other building- material tt
has already been ordered for very ex- m
tensive brick buildings and office te
space on Main street directly across n<
the street from the Mallard Lumber ee
Company commissary, which improve- te
ments the broad minded and optomis- th
tic members of the Mallard Lumber m
Company have taken upon them-: rc
selves to erect, having no immediate j o\
prospects in view of renting the space j a<
other than their strong faith in Gree- j a
lyville that no building will ever be o\
vacant in the limits of the town. j it
Among the improvements during tY
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Is Your
Farm
f MONEY INVESTED IN STl
I WAYS PAYS DIVIDENDS TO T1
| MALS IN STOCK AT ALL TIME
PATRONS FOR LIVE STOCK 0]
OUR LINE OF BUGGIES AN
| RANTED TO GIVE SATISFACTO
I PLY OF
(AGENTS FOR OVERLAND J
Greelyvill
GREELYVILLE,
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I WHEN BY THE REASON 01
| KETS TO US AS NEVER BEFOR
I THESE EXTRAORINARY CONDI
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B OUR INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS
I PRODUCTS?
I UNDER THE STIMULUS 01
I ADDITIONS TO OLD ONES IN J
| THE WAR IS ENDED, MILI
| FOR SOMETHING TO KEEP TH
I LET THE WORKINGMEN 0
I AND STOP THE ENDLESS CLA]
I ER WAGES, AND SHORTER AN
I MORE HOLIDAYS AND HALF I
I LET US ALL GET BUSY AN
BOUND TO COME LATER ONTO
DO THIS YOU BUSINES:
READY FOR THE COMING YE.A
MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT
JUSTING YOUR FARMS TO A 5
WATCH YOUR STEP AND I
CAN.
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ie past few months it would hardly ]
? justice to the town to eliminate
le mention of the modern general 1
ercantile establishment of the Enrprise
Mercantile Company, in con- ]
iction with which ii.ey have install- (
1 an up-to-date refrigeration sys m,
worthy of a town many times j
le size of Greelyville, and also a ,
odem resturant, all under the same
>of and management. This concern
vns its own farm of several hundred |
n-es, on which they expect to raise (
good line of beef cattle for their ,
vn market Under this same head,
is only correct to call attention to
le new $10,000, addition and imi!
n?!!iBass^!rB:r?iivK:a'! mmm
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;rdy horses and mules is a
he farmer. we carry a lar
s and are prepared to sup
F any kind.
d wagons is unusually com
ry service. we invite your
vnd willys knight and stev
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Dlcano S
itive Working
ites Should Beg
HE THINKIN
?' THE WAR JUST ENDED, THE W
E, WE ARE LIVING IN A FOOL S
TIONS TO CONTINUE AS THEY l
E IS REACHED AGAIN, AND THF
FALL AWAY, WHAT SHALL WE
?* WAR'S HIGH PRICES, Wt HAV
ISTRENEROUS ENDEAVOR TO M
.S AND FACTORIES WILL SOON I
EM BUSY- SOME ARE DOING T
F THIS COUNTRY THINK SOBE
MOR OF RADICAL LEADERS FOR
iD STILL SHORTER HOURS OF ;
IOLIDAYS.
D ADJUST OURSELVES TO THE
3 MEN AND FARMERS THAT Al
lR, YOU MUST HAVE THE VER\
\ THIS WE HAVE AND STAND RE
STANDARD OF "BETTER FARMIN
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Socially
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provement to the already commodious
S. V. Tayldk Department Store. This
makes Mr. Tavlor's store the lareest
in town and from the immense volume
and high quality of his stock,
makes his establishment ^ne the town
:an justly be proud of.
An account of Greelyville can hardly
be written without the mention of
the general mercantile store of M.
Joseph & Brother, composed of
Messrs. Moses and B. Joseph, both
born and reared in Syria, than whom
there are no bigger nearted, public
spirited and v. orthy citizens in town.
The banking needs of Greelyville
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HIS ALREADY.
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AND MORE AND
conditions that are
re farming must get
r best grade of farm
:ady to assist you in adg."
iadise as quickly as we '
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