Old Fountain Inn

Old Fountain Inn is a South Carolina historical marker in Fountain Inn, Greenville County, dedicated 1960.

Greenville County · dedicated 1960 · S.C. Hwy. 14, just N of Fountain Inn, Fountain Inn

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According to tradition an ante-bellum inn with a gushing fountain in the front yard stood near here on the old stage road between Greenville and Columbia and served as a meeting place for men in the area in those stirring days. The present town chartered in 1886 is named for the old inn.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Oliver Thompson Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy

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