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By Andrew M. Staton

Simpsonville was once little greater than a cease at the highway among Greenville and Laurens, South Carolina, whilst a guy named Peter Simpson moved to the world within the 1840s. Simpson turned the postmaster and blacksmith for the world, then referred to as �Plain� or �Dry Ridge,� and streets and church buildings started to spring up, making a city. by the point of its incorporation in 1901, Simpsonville used to be thriving as a small railroad city, with a cloth mill drawing extra to the realm in 1908. less than the management of 2 rather influential and long-standing mayors, Dr. L.L. Richardson and Ralph Hendricks, Simpsonville grew during the twentieth century to turn into the hub of trade and improvement that it really is today.

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