Benjamin Franklin Perry was the 72nd Governor of South Carolina, appointed by U.S. President Andrew Johnson in 1865 after the end of the American Civil War.
Benjamin Franklin Perry
Sans Souci, former home of Gov. Perry.
Greenville, South Carolina
Greenville is a city in and the county seat of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States. With a population of 70,720 at the 2020 census, it is the 6th-most populous city in the state. Greenville is located approximately halfway between Atlanta, Georgia, and Charlotte, North Carolina, along Interstate 85. Its metropolitan area also includes Interstates 185 and 385. Greenville is the anchor city of the Upstate, a combined statistical area with an estimated population of 1,590,636 in 2023. Greenville was the fourth fastest-growing city in the United States between 2015 and 2016, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Falls Park and McBee's Mill in 1844
The Greenville and Northern Railway in the 1890s which was converted into the Swamp Rabbit Trail in 2010.
North Main Street Postcard, c. 1903
Main Street around 1910