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Quick Facts About Anderson South Carolina
With a population just a few over 25,000, with an average work commute of a few seconds over eighteen minutes, and with low crime rates, low housing costs, and low to medium temperature ranges, Anderson, South Carolina is an attractive place to visit, vacation, or live. Moreover, the interesting details rest in the history, facts and trivia of and surrounding the Anderson, South Carolina area.
First, Anderson, South Carolina has been nicknamed The Electric City:
Powered by a local Rocky River water mill, Anderson was the first city
in the United States to have uninterrupted electricity.
Anderson, South Carolina started not as a town or a city but as a
courthouse: the area first inhabited by Cherokees was signed over to surveyor Andrew Pickens in a 1777 treaty; first called the Pendleton district, with divisions Pickens and Anderson (the former for the surveyor Andrew Pickens, the latter for Pickens’ surveying partner, General Robert Anderson). Since Pickens, however, was too close to Pendleton, and vice versa, the people erected/re-established a township further away—in the county’s center—which they called Anderson Courthouse.
Early industry in Anderson included textiles, and the otherwise primarily farming community featured hogs and corn for the town’s subsistence. Today, manufacturing is a leading source of income, bringing the people—whose average age is 38—an average of nearly $28k a year.
In the same respect, the city of Anderson, South Carolina has T. L. Hanna High School and Westside High School, which can boast an alumni of residents 25 years old and older having a graduation rate of over 70%. And besides the pre-school, South Fant Early Childhood Center, ten elementary schools and academies, and three middle schools, the city is home to The Anderson Adult Education center and Anderson University.
The seat of Anderson County and the smallest of the three UpCountry
area cities, Anderson, South Carolina has also been dubbed “The Friendliest City in South Carolina. With 70% sunshine year-round, temperatures no higher than 90 degrees (or thereabouts), and crimes at lows near 7.8 percent, for instance, it is understandable why the first city to have perpetual electricity in a state that housed the first Civil War battle and grew the first Red Spider Lilies in the nation is also nicknamed for its accessibility and amicability.
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