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the Cherokee name for path, honea, may The construction of Chiquola Mill in
be a double name for the place. When 1902 transitioned Honea Path’s economy and Timken, which produces automotive
the town was chartered in 1885, Honey from small farm agriculture to a leading bearings and transmissions.
Path was recorded in several places, but textile center. The four-story cotton mill Honea Path is along the South
in 1917 the town was incorporated as operated until 2003. Community leaders Carolina National Heritage Corridor. One
Honea Path. are studying the 21-acre historic site for of Anderson County’s oldest structures
One of South Carolina’s smallest redevelopment opportunities. is the Obediah Shirley Home, built after
towns, Honea Path during the earliest Manufacturing continues to thrive, 1824 with rough-hewn logs and wrought
railroad years provided a water stop on anchored by Milliken Company, which by a blacksmith. It is preserved today
the Greenville and Columbia Railroad. specializes in protective floor coverings, and listed on the National Register
of Historic Places. Honea Path is the
smallest town in the nation with a
Carnegie Library, built in 1908, which
remains in use as a branch of the
Anderson County Library.
GRAPHICS | STATS AREA
Incorporated ....................................... 1917
Population .........................................3,659
Address ...................... 204 S. Main Street
Honea Path, SC 29654
Phone ...............................(864) 369-2466
Council Meets ................ 3rd Tuesdays –
Watkins Community Center
Courtroom – 6 p.m.
Website ......................honeapathsc.com
Facebook .............. @TownofHoneaPath
TOWN OF IVA
Dr. Augustus Cook brought the town
of Cook’s Station in the southern part
of Anderson County into being in the
late 1800s as a station for the Seaboard
Railroad. Another same-named town
existed in the state, so the doctor
renamed it Iva for his daughter, Iva
Cook Bryson.
Iva is founded in agriculture and
manufacturing. Jackson Textile Mill
and Iva Manufacturing both employed
many residents.
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