Furman University is a private liberal arts university in Greenville, South Carolina. Founded in 1826 and named after Baptist pastor Richard Furman, Furman University is the oldest private institution of higher learning in South Carolina. It became a secular university in 1992, while keeping Christo et Doctrinae as its motto. As of Fall 2021, it enrolls approximately 2,300 undergraduate students and 150 graduate students on its 750-acre (304 ha) campus.
Located in Upstate South Carolina, Furman University gets snow in the winter, as seen in 2016.
The Furman Hall is centrally located on campus.
James B. Duke Library
John E. Johns Hall
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
