Pelzer Manufacturing Company and Mill Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“The Pelzer Manufacturing Company and Mill Village Historic District is a historic manufacturing complex and associated mill village in Pelzer, South Carolina. The district includes five mill buildings constructed beginning in 1881 by the Pelzer Manufacturing Company, and a mill village with worker housing and other civic and institutional buildings.”
Wikipedia article Pelzer Manufacturing Company and Mill Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Anderson County · listed in 2017 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Portions of Lebby, Reed, Courtney, Smythe, & Anderson Sts., Pelzer, 29669
When was it listed? October 2017
Category. district
Census division. Williamston-Pelzer
National Register reference number. 100001718 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Pelzer Manufacturing Company and Mill Village Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 346 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined	56
Debris and open burning	42
Arson/incendiarism	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Other causes	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	ELLISON HAY FIELD

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Pelzer Manufacturing Company and Mill Village Historic District: 2 prospects, 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Kyanite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
River Road Plant	Sand	Producer	Sedimentary
Beam Sillimanite Prospect	Kyanite	Prospect
Beam Sillimanite Prospect	Kyanite	Unknown	Metamorphic
Delzer Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pearson and Scott Sillimanite Prspt	Kyanite	Prospect
Piedmont Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Saluda River Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this property

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pelzer, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	West Pelzer	1 hurt	no account filed
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	West Pelzer	$20,000	Public reported more than a dozen trees snapped or uprooted in the Piedmont area, particularly in locations around Robinwood Lane. Minor roof damage was also reported to homes, while the roof was blown off one outbuilding and others were damaged by falling trees.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pelzer	-	County comms reported multiple trees and power lines blown down in Pelzer and vicinity.
May 2024	Hail	West Pelzer	-	Nws employee and the public reported quarter to half dollar size hail in the Piercetown community.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	West Pelzer	-	County comms reported trees blown down near Midway Rd and Cherokee Rd.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	West Pelzer	-	Public (via Social Media) and Highway Patrol reported multiple trees blown down near the Saluda River from Pelzer to near Powdersville.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	West Pelzer	-	Multiple trees were blown down in the West Pelzer area.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Pelzer	-	Numerous tree limbs were blown down, some on power lines. A tree also fell on a home on Holiday St.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	West Pelzer	-	Large tree limbs and two telephone poles were blown down in Pelzer. Shingles were blown off a roof on Beaverdam Rd west of Williamston and several trees were also blown down in the Williamston area, including one on a home on Spring St.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	West Pelzer	-	Numerous trees and power lines blown down in West Pelzer.
April 2011	Hail	Pelzer	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Pelzer	-	no account filed
September 2009	Hail	West Pelzer	-	no account filed
April 2009	Hail	Pelzer	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Pelzer	-	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	West Pelzer	-	no account filed
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Pelzer	-	no account filed
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Pelzer	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	West Pelzer	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	West Pelzer	-	no account filed
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Pelzer	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Pelzer	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Pelzer Presbyterian Church	0.2 miles	1993
	Pelzer Community Building	0.3 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001718 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Anderson County	All 26 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.