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A Spirit of Unity: Black Student Fellowships at North Greenville
The first black students arrived on North Greenville’s main campus in the fall of 1967. The number of black students in the first few years after desegregation remained small, but gradually grew throughout the 1970s. In 1976, a group of students came together and formed the Afro-American Society. At the time, the clubs and organizations Read more
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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 the male students in 1893. Read more
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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 the town in 1930. The Read more
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Bruce Hall: North Greenville’s Largest Housing Facility
The 1960s were a transformational time for private colleges as the number of young people entering college grew and, therefore, the number of boarding students also grew. To accommodate this growing trend, the trustees and the administration at North Greenville Junior College approved a new men’s dorm to be built next to Hayes Gym. Before Read more
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A History of North Greenville Men’s Basketball
“Experiencing winning and losing is valuable to a person. Being part of the basketball team helped me gain this valuable experience.” – Randy McMillan The Academy Years (1906-1930) The first record of a men’s basketball team at North Greenville was in the 1915-1916 school year. Little is known about the teams in those early years. Read more
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Connected: A History of Electricity, Communication, and the Internet at North Greenville
When North Greenville High School was founded in 1892, there was no electricity on campus and the only form of outside communication was by mail. The first discussion of bringing electricity to campus came in 1919 when the trustees formed a committee to research building a light plant on campus. Light plants in those days Read more
From These Roots 