Greer, South Carolina
Driving Distance: 1 hour 48 minutes from Columbia
Contributed by the City of Greer
      Greer began in 1876 as a tiny cross roads village or trading post and is now one of South Carolina's fastest growing cities. It is located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains — in the heart of the bustling Upstate.
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Plowing, Praying, Paying, and Poisoning: A Lower Richland family thrives
Part 11: Cyber connections to the plantation
By Deborah Scott Brooks dsb1020@comcast.net
      Ephraim Neal and his family left the Neal Plantation in Kingsville after the mid- 1800s. Approximately 150 years later, there has been a cyber- connection between a descendant of the plantation owner, Jackie Neal, and a descendant of once- enslaved Ephraim (b. 1844).
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