Editing Greenville, South Carolina (section)

===Latter 19th century===
[[File:SwampRabbitGRNV1890s.jpg|thumb|The [[Greenville and Northern Railway]] in the 1890s which was converted into the [[Swamp Rabbit Trail]] in 2010]]

In December 1860 Greenville supported a convention to debate the issue of secession for [[South Carolina]]. The Greenville District sent James Furman, William K. Easley, Perry E. Duncan, William H. Campbell, and James P. Harrison as delegates for the convention. On December 20, 1860, the South Carolina state convention, along with the Greenville delegation, voted to secede from the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]. Greenville County provided over 2,000 soldiers to the [[Confederate States Army]]. The town supplied food, clothing, and firearms to the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]]. Greenville saw no action from the war until 1865 when [[Union Army|Union troops]] came through the town looking for [[Jefferson Davis|President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy]] who had fled south from [[Richmond, Virginia]]. In June 1865, President [[Andrew Johnson]] appointed Greenville County native [[Benjamin Franklin Perry]] as [[Governor of South Carolina]].<ref name="The History of Greenville"/><ref>{{cite web|title=The Civil War in Greenville|url=http://library.furman.edu/specialcollections/HST21/civil/greenville.htm|website=Furman.edu|access-date=December 4, 2016|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220043257/http://library.furman.edu/specialcollections/HST21/civil/greenville.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In February 1869, Greenville's [[Municipal charter|town charter]] was amended by the S. C. General Assembly establishing Greenville, the town, as a city. Construction boomed in the 1870s such as the establishment of a bridge over the [[Reedy River]], new mills on the river, and new railroads. [[The Greenville News]] was established in 1874 as Greenville's first daily newspaper. [[Southern Bell]] installed the first telephone lines in the city. The most important infrastructure that came to the city were cotton mills. Prominent cotton mill businesses operated near Greenville making it a cotton mill town. By 1915 Greenville became known as the "Textile Center of the South."<ref name="The History of Greenville"/> From 1915 to 2004, the city hosted an important textile manufacturing trade fair, the [[Southern Textile Exposition]].