Editing Central, South Carolina (section)

==History==
Central was founded by the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway in a railroad boom that began in 1873.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cityofcentral.org/about |publisher=City of Central, SC |title=404 &#124; Town of Central |access-date=November 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115110407/http://cityofcentral.org/about/ |archive-date=November 15, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The town's name represents the fact that it is midway between Atlanta and Charlotte.<ref name="CHShist"/> Central was incorporated as a town on March 17, 1875.<ref name="CHShist">[http://www.centralheritage.org/history.htm History of Central] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720033135/http://www.centralheritage.org/history.htm |date=July 20, 2011 }} from the Central Heritage Society website</ref>

In 1897, [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]] moved its headquarters from Central to [[Greenville, South Carolina|Greenville]]; trains no longer stopped to change engines, and soon all shops and offices were closed.<ref name="CHShist"/> The establishment of Issaqueena Mill and, in 1906,<ref>[http://www.swu.edu/about/history.htm History, Mission & Vision] from  [[Southern Wesleyan University]]</ref> Wesleyan Methodist Bible Institute (now [[Southern Wesleyan University]]) brought people back to the town.<ref name="CHShist"/>

Two buildings on Church Street in Central are [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Pickens County, South Carolina|listed on the National Register of Historic Places]]: [[Central High School (Central, South Carolina)|Central High School]] and [[Morgan House (Central, South Carolina)|Morgan House]]. The [[Central Roller Mills]] on Madden Bridge Road was listed in 2013.