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  • From the John T. Wood House to the Barbara McCormick House: A History of one of Tigerville’s Oldest Homes

    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 serve as a doctor in Read more

  • North Greenville College at Greenville

    North Greenville College at Greenville

    Extension centers were not new to North Greenville in the 1970s. In the 1960s, North Greenville had an extension center in Greer that offered evening classes for adults who could not attend day classes in Tigerville. In the fall of 1973, North Greenville opened an extension center in Greenville. The location chosen for the program Read more

  • Ashmore Park: Home of North Greenville Baseball

    Ashmore Park: Home of North Greenville Baseball

    North Greenville has consistently had a baseball team since 1953. Prior to 1953, the school fielded teams off and on, but it was not consistent. We are not sure when it was built, but there was a crude baseball field down the hill from Neves Hall that was completely redone in 1954. That year, a Read more

  • Serving the North Greenville Community: A History of the Tuttle Clinic Building

    Serving the North Greenville Community: A History of the Tuttle Clinic Building

    There was not a clinic on campus until the late 1950s when Rose Clayton was hired by Dr. Donnan, the college president, as the new campus nurse. At first, Nurse Clayton lived in a small apartment in the middle floor of the old auditorium with her son, Neves, and the school set up a room Read more

  • Elsie Tuttle: Teacher and Traveler

    Elsie Tuttle: Teacher and Traveler

    “Miss Tuttle, small of stature but towering in her spirit of dedication and unbending principle, has given herself without reservation to the training of young minds and building of Christian character for forty-six years, twenty-seven of them at North Greenville.” December 19, 1896, in Graymont, Illinois, parents William Atwood Tuttle and Fannie Mae Algeo welcomed Read more

  • The Stud: A History of Student Centers at North Greenville

    The Stud: A History of Student Centers at North Greenville

    Generations of students have enjoyed various student centers throughout the school’s history. Affectionately called “The Stud”, the student centers have provided a place for students to fellowship, play, eat, and study. The first student center at North Greenville was in a house that had once belonged to Benjamin F. Neves, one of the North Greenville Read more