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== History == {{Expand section|date=June 2023}} In 1823 John McGehee and his wife Charlotte built a summerhouse called "Green Wood" midway between the cities of [[Abbeville, South Carolina|Abbeville]] and Cambridge in order to have cleaner air.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Cann |first=Marvin L. |date=May 17, 2016 |title=Greenwood |url=https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/greenwood/ |access-date=2023-06-07 |website=South Carolina Encyclopedia |language=en-US}}</ref> Nearby, a village named Woodville was formed in 1837 with a post office. By 1850, the village designation was changed to the name Greenwood.<ref name=":3" /> The town grew with the first railroad, the [[Greenville & Columbia Railroad]] built in 1852.<ref name=":3" /> Greenwood was incorporated in 1857.<ref name=":3" /> Starting in 1872, the [[American Missionary Association]] (AMA) founded the [[Brewer Normal Institute]] in Greenwood; a segregated school for African-American students.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |last1=Woody |first1=Howard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-QMl7-6XmMC&pg=PA93 |title=South Carolina Postcards |last2=Johnson |first2=Thomas L. |date=2000 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=0-7385-0293-6 |volume=3 |page=93}}</ref> The Brewer Normal Institute was initially a private boarding school, and by 1925 it became a public school which closed in 1970.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 8, 1925 |title=Greenwood takes over Brewer Normal School |page=9 |work=[[The State (newspaper)|The State]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122088048/greenwood-takes-over-brewer-normal-schoo/}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite news |date=April 20, 1930 |title=Trend of Negro Education Gradually Upward |page=19 |work=The Greenville News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29312952/}}</ref> The AMA also built the Brewer Hospital in Greenwood in order to help fostering community racial integration. It was dedicated on May 24, 1924.<ref name=":2">{{cite book |last1=Richardson |first1=Joe M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gr4CDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA105 |title=Education for Liberation |last2=Jones |first2=Maxine D. |date=2009 |publisher=The University of Alabama Press |isbn=978-0-8173-5848-8 |page=105}}</ref> Greenwood primarily served as a railroad and agricultural town until 1890 when William L. Durst opened the [[Greenwood Cotton Mill]], and after which moved into local textile manufacturing.<ref name=":3" />
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