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Goal 4: Ensure the reliable provision of public utilities to the citizens of Travelers Rest Strategies Time Frame Participants 1. Begin discussions with Piedmont 2006 TRCC, Piedmont Natural Natural Gas. Get public gas piped throughout the city Gas 2. Review the recommendations of the sewer rehabilitation report for Travelers Rest conducted by Camp Dresser & McKee and implement those deemed the most necessary and feasible. Ongoing TRCC, WCSA 3. Increase the number of water pumping stations within the city limits Long-term Greenville Water Goal 5: Increase recreational opportunities in the city Strategies Time Frame Participants 1. Construct more parks and ball fields, and indoor sporting facilities 2008 TRCC 2. Construct more bicycle and walking trails 2008 TRCC Goal 6: Replace or improve deficient or inadequate lighting Strategies Time Frame Participants 1. Set up a lighting program to address deficient lighting in areas where public safety is an issue 2006 TRCC 2. Replace above ground power lines with underground lines Ongoing TRCC 3. Place period lighting along State Park Road, Poinsett Highway, and the CBD along Main Street 2006-2008 TRCC 6
CITY OF TRAVELERS REST COMPREHENSIVE PLAN CULTURAL RESOURCES ELEMENT Introduction The purpose of the Cultural Resources Element of the Travelers Rest Comprehensive Plan is to account for the history, organizations, and events that give Travelers Rest a sense of identity. It includes a historic overview of the city, recommended methods by which historical events can be recognized and preserved, and a list of organizations and events that enrich the culture of our community. The appreciation of our cultural resources can bring widespread benefits. While this appreciation is associated with many inherent benefits such as pride and identity, it has been proven that cultural resources can also include economic benefits as well. Historic Overview of Travelers Rest The Travelers Rest area has been an exceptionally beautiful part of the country since the earliest of times. Its rolling hills, mountain scenery, delightful climate, and unsurpassed mountain spring water make it the one of the garden spots of the world. As a result, it was the home to abundant wildlife, an ideal hunting territory for Native Americans, in particular, the Cherokee. In 1776, Native American tribes were forced to sign a treaty ceding the present Greenville County lands to the state of South Carolina. Evidence of this early Native American presence can be found in the numerous arrowheads, artifacts, and mounds that have been found over the past half-century. Upon the formation of a state, a route for trade emerged. Using the old Native American trails, drovers and farmers from 7 Kentucky and Tennessee herded their cattle, hogs, sheep, turkeys, and carried their corn and grains through the Appalachian Mountains, down to the ports of South Carolina and Georgia. The gently rolling hills of the northern portion of the county around which the present day Travelers Rest resides, offered an ideal place to rest after the often treacherous journey through the Appalachian mountain ranges. Because these first resting places were often just primitive campsites, people living in this region saw an excellent opportunity to offer these travelers a more accommodating place to stay in order to make a profit. So they opened up their homes as inns and provided land where the drovers’ cattle could rest and feed before continuing their journey to the southeast. These drovers were so moved by this southern hospitality that the area became known as “Travelers Rest.” The Travelers Rest Post Office was officially established on October 10, 1808. It was once thought that the post office was located where the town is today; however, it was actually located six miles to the north at the intersection of Highway 25 and Highway 414, where Travelers Rest developed as a crossroads community, similar to Sandy Flat and Lima. Crossroads such as these typically emerged about five miles from one another in rural areas. Owned and operated by Thomas Edwards, the original Travelers Rest Post Office was located in a portion of his inn/store for approximately ten years. Eventually Major Henry Ellis Lynch, who served as postmaster from 1831-1866, moved the post office farther south in 1831 to the southern corner of the present day Highway 25 and Tigerville Road.
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