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South Carolina, United States
Also known as: Electric City
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Anderson, city, seat (1826) of Anderson county, northwestern South Carolina, U.S., in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was founded in 1826 on what had been Cherokee Indian land. Named for a local Revolutionary War hero, General Robert Anderson, it has been called the Electric City because of early (1898) long-distance power transmission from the Seneca River. Anderson is a manufacturing centre with a long-established textile industry; newer industries produce fibreglass products, auto...

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