All posts in January 2023

Greenville is the setting of my historical fiction novel, “When He Was Gone,” which is focused on the remarkable true story of Elizabeth Garraux, one of the city’s early settlers. So, what was Greenville like back then? The city is now the state’s sixth largest, with a population of 74,000. But in the 1890s, Greenville…

The site of the old Greenville News building has recently been transformed into spiffy Camperdown Plaza, but long ago, it was the location of one of Greenville’s early successful businesses. George Heldman was a contemporary of Elizabeth Garraux, whose life story is the focus of my novel, “When He Was Gone.” George was a saddlemaker…

You may have ridden in or have at least seen the free trolleys that run through downtown Greenville, but you may not know that trolleys started moving people around the city almost 150 years ago. The Street Railway Company laid the first trolley tracks in 1875. There were seven cars pulled along the 2.25 miles…