Category: Tigerville
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Coupe de Ville and Hollywood’s Visit to Tigerville
The following story was printed in the August 1989 edition of the North Greenville College Newsletter. The pictures in the slideshow below were taken by NGC staff and are housed in the NGU Archive. Travelers probably had to check their road maps twice at the intersection of South Carolina highways…
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Tigerville Baptist Church: A History
Tigerville Baptist Church sits on the corner of the North Greenville University campus and for many years was the main church most students, faculty, and staff attended. The church’s roots go back to the founding of North Greenville when the first principal, Hugh L. Brock, started regular prayer meetings for…
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Tigerville’s Little Library
Before the 1930s, anyone who wanted to visit a library in northern Greenville County had to travel to Greenville. Eventually, the Greenville County Library started to bring book trucks out to Tigerville. The community response was so great that the library system decided to build a small library branch in…
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From J.H. Roe & Son to The Eddie Runyan Creative Arts Center: North Greenville’s Second Oldest Building
John Heiskell Roe was a prominent merchant in the Tigerville community. His parents were early settlers in the area, and he had grown up in Tigerville. He was interested in agriculture and business and in 1904, he built a store in his hometown named J.H. Roe & Son. Brick was…
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Two Tigerville Schools: The Connections between North Greenville University and Tigerville Elementary School
Tigerville Elementary School is one of the oldest continuing schools in Greenville County. According to oral tradition, the school began in 1866 in a small one-room schoolhouse building. It was in this one-room building that a committee from the North Greenville Baptist Association met to select a location for a…
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From the John T. Wood House to the Barbara McCormick House: A History of one of Tigerville’s Oldest Homes
The Wood family were some of the early settlers in Tigerville. Sometime before the Civil War, Dr. Thomas Earle Wood moved to Tigerville and purchased a home. His house was located on the property that is now Grazer’s Store at Famoda Farms on Highway 253. Dr. Wood left Tigerville to…
From These Roots 