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Photograph of Ware Shoals Inn
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ware Shoals Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Ware Shoals Inn is a historic hotel located at Ware Shoals, Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was built by the Ware Shoals Manufacturing Company in 1923, and is a three-story brick building with a partial basement.”

Wikipedia article Ware Shoals Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Greenwood County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1 Greenwood Ave. N., Ware Shoals, 29692
  • When was it listed? November 2007
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Ware Shoals-Hodges
  • National Register reference number. 07001130 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Ware Shoals Inn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 717 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined86
Debris and open burning38
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism18 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Greenwood County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Ware Shoals Inn: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Vermiculite, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Master's KilnLimestone, General, Marble, DimensionPast Producer1908
Mt. Olive ProspectGoldOccurrence
Saluda MineCopperPast ProducerStratiform
Saluda MineCopper, Iron, SilverProspect
Ezell MineVermiculiteUnknownMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Maddens-KernalsVermiculitePast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusion
Masters KilnLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerMetamorphic
Raysors KilnLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerMetamorphic
Ware Shoals DivisionSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknownPlacer , Modern , Fluvial
Ware Shoals DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Greenwood County

Storms near this property

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ware Shoals, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals1 hurtno account filed
August 1994Tornado (F0)Ware Shoals$50,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals$10,000County comms reported a tree blown down on house near W Fleming St in Ware Shoals.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals$1,000A tree was blown down across a road, and another tree was partially uprooted. A cable TV line was also blown down.
June 2016HailWare Shoals-Media relayed public report of at least quarter size hail in the Ware Shoals area.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals-Public reported multiple large tree limbs blown down and the top of a large tree blown out in Ware Shoals.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals-Multiple trees were blown down on Haynes Rd.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals-Trees were blown down in and around the town of Ware Shoals.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals-A tree was blown down on highway 25 near Cokesbury.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals-One large tree and several small limbs down.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals-Several trees and power lines down, with at least 1 tree on a car.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals-Trees down in the Ware Shoals area near the Laurens line.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals-Several trees were blown down.
March 2012HailWare Shoals-no account filed
June 2007HailWare Shoals-no account filed
May 2005HailWare Shoals-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals-no account filed
August 1997HailWare Shoals-no account filed
June 1996HailWare Shoals-no account filed
June 1995Thunderstorm WindWare Shoals-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenwood County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Greenville Presbyterian Church4.6 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07001130 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenwood CountyAll 22 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.