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Photograph of Fountain Inn Principal's House and Teacherage
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fountain Inn Principal's House and Teacherage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Fountain Inn Principal's House and Teacherage is a historic home and teacherage located at Fountain Inn, Greenville County, South Carolina. It was built in 1935 as a home for teachers, and is the only remaining building associated with the Fountain Inn Negro School complex.”

Wikipedia article Fountain Inn Principal's House and Teacherage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 97 National Register listings published here for Greenville County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 105 Mt. Zion Dr., Fountain Inn, 29644
  • When was it listed? June 2011
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Fountain Inn
  • National Register reference number. 11000415 - 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Fountain Inn Principal's House and Teacherage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined42
Debris and open burning38
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
6 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burning1.3 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.6 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Greenville County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fountain Inn Principal's House and Teacherage: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica. 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
Coke Cooper ProspectMicaProspect
Fountain Inn ProspectGoldUnknownVein

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this property

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fountain Inn, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 1995Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn$50,000no account filed
September 2004Flash FloodFountain Inn$20,000Flooding developed quickly across Greenville County during mid-evening. Numerous automobiles were stranded in water in the southern and eastern parts of the county. Flash flooding occurred around Fork Shoals, along highway 25 south of Greenville, and along Jones Mill Rd east of Fountain Inn. Gilder Creek flooded from Mauldin downstream to the Enoree River. Water from the flooded creek covered a bridge at E Georgia Rd.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn$3,000Multiple trees blown down, with at least 1 tree on a house.
May 2023HailFountain Inn-Ham radio operator reported quarter size hail in the Fountain Inn area.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-NWS co-op observer reported minor damage to a garage door and multiple large tree limbs blown down near the intersection of Highways 651 and 418.
January 2014Flash FloodFountain Inn-Farmwood Drive was flooded by Payne Branch, cutting off three houses.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-A tree and power lines were blown down near the intersection of Nash Mill Rd and Tall Pines Rd.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-A large tree was blown down on power lines on Gulliver St in Fountain Inn.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-Trees uprooted on Abercrombie Rd.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-Two power poles blown down near the intersection of I-385 and Fairview St.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-Several large tree limbs blown down on Terry Rd.
September 2002Flash FloodFountain Inn-Overflowing creeks caused flooding of roads and bridges. Rescues from vehicles were required around Ashmore Bridge Rd, Neely Ferry Rd, and nearby sections. Some homes were also flooded in Simpsonville.
May 2012HailFountain Inn-no account filed
July 2012HailFountain Inn-no account filed
June 2009HailFountain Inn-no account filed
June 2007HailFountain Inn-no account filed
May 2002HailFountain Inn-no account filed
July 2002HailFountain Inn-no account filed
April 1999HailFountain Inn-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-no account filed
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFountain Inn-no account filed
May 1998HailFountain Inn-no account filed
April 1998HailFountain Inn-no account filed
April 1998HailFountain Inn-no account filed
March 1997HailFountain Inn-no account filed
May 1995HailFountain Inn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenville 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

6 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
Robert Quillen Office and Library0.5 miles2012
Cannon Building0.5 miles2005
James A. Fulmer House0.6 miles2015
F.W. Welborn House0.6 miles2010
Ellison Flour Mill0.6 miles2022
Fountain Inn High School0.7 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000415 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenville CountyAll 97 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.