Joseph Robidoux

City Founder

Near this site the French fur trader Joseph Robidoux established a trading post in 1826 while it was still Indian territory. Robidoux and his family oversaw a far-ranging fur trading empire.

The Platte Purchase of 1837 added the six county ...

Nazareth Church

This Presbyterian Church, located about .4 miles SE, was organized soon after 1766 by Scotch-Irish who settled the area. From Revolutionary War days the congregation has been influential in religious, educational, and civic affairs of Spartanburg County. A number of ...

The California - Oregon Trail

1840s & 1850s

Each spring thousands of emigrants camped in these hills and meadows waiting for new grass to support their teams along the trail. Wagons lined St. Joseph streets to the east waiting for two to three days to be ...

Cooper’s Tavern

Here stood Cooper’s Tavern,

in which

Jabez Wyman

and

Jason Winship

were killed by the British

April 19, 1775.

Marker is at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue (U.S. 3) and Medford Street, on the right when traveling west on Massachusetts Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Walnut Grove Plantation

Charles and Mary Moore built the Manor House in 1765 1½ miles SE on land granted by George III in 1763. They founded Rocky Spring Academy (1770-1850) the first in Spartanburg County. In a raid in 1780 "Bloody" Bill Cunningham, ...

Rex Allen Memorial

[Marker mounted to the left of sculpture:]

Born December 31, 1920 to Horace and Faye Allen in Willcox, Rex Elvie Allen was cross-eyed at birth.

As a young boy, Rex sang in the barber shop on this very street. He and his ...

The Pony Express

by

A stone from the U.S. Post Office

1898 - 1940

Marker is on Penn Street near 12th Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The First Recruit / Original Historic Structures

The First Recruit17-year old Joseph Gregg of Terre Haute, Indiana arrived at Great Lakes Naval Center on July 1, 1911, the day of the first commissioning of the Station. Later that year on October 8, President William Howard Taft officially ...

Transcontinental Telegraph

Electrical Engineering Milestone

Between July 4 and October 24, 1861, a telegraph line was constructed by the Western Union Company between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, thereby completing the first high-speed communications line between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. This ...

Cigar Factory

On Court Street Behind the Historic Chamber of Commerce Building

By 1906 the factory employed 400 girls at the wage of $60.00 per month.

By November 1907 the factory was turning out 1 million cigars a month.

The land was purchased for $2,000.00 ...