Spartanburg

Spartanburg, city, seat (1785) of Spartanburg county, in the Piedmont section of northwestern South Carolina, U.S. It lies in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Greenville. The name is derived from the Spartan Rifles, a regiment of local militia that fought in the American Revolution. Established first as a courthouse village in 1785, the community was in an area noted before 1860 for ironworks, cotton planting, and a...