Editing Union, South Carolina (section)

==History==
Both the city of Union and [[Union County, South Carolina|Union County]] received their names from the old Union Church that stood a short distance from the [[Monarch Mill]]. When it was first founded, the city of Union was known as Unionville; later the name was shortened to Union. The county's first white settlers came from [[Virginia]] in 1749. Union County's population grew the fastest between 1762 and the start of the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. [[Settlers]] built [[log cabins]] and cultivated [[tobacco]], [[flax]], [[Maize|corn]] and [[wheat]]. Union was one of the first towns settled in the area and was untouched during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] because the [[Broad River (Carolinas)|Broad River]] flooded and turned [[William Tecumseh Sherman|Sherman]]’s troops away from the town.