Southern Bleachery and Print Works

Built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“Southern Bleachery and Print Works is a historic factory building in Taylors, Greenville County, South Carolina. Founded by former Furman University English professor Bennette Geer, and built by the J.”
Wikipedia article Southern Bleachery and Print Works, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 97 National Register listings published here for Greenville County · listed in 2012 · category: Building · built in 1924.

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

The listing

Address. 113 Mill St., Taylors, 29687
When was it listed? July 2012
Category. building
Census division. Taylors
When was it built? 1924
National Register reference number. 12000439 - 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Southern Bleachery and Print Works between 1992 and 2019, burning about 141 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	20
Debris and open burning	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
10 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not 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 Southern Bleachery and Print Works: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Barnett & Simmons Deposits	Mica	Occurrence
	H L Shelton Deposit	Mica	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Greenville County

Storms near this property

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylors, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 19 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	3 hurt	no account filed
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	2 hurt	no account filed
August 2003	Lightning	Taylors	$100,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	$25,000	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	$2,000	A pulse severe thunderstorm blew down a number of trees in a Taylors neighborhood. One tree fell across a storage building.
March 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	$2,000	no account filed
December 2009	Flash Flood	Taylors	$1,000	Quite a few roads closed due to flooding throughout the Greenville and Greer areas. Although most of the flooding was due to poor drainage, some streams were involved, particularly the Reedy River. Some of the roads affected included Hudson Rd, which was closed at Prestige Ct. A portion of Brushy Creek Rd was closed, as well as Boiling Springs Rd near Sugar Creek Rd, where over a foot of water covered about a 200-foot section of the road. Also, portions of Hammett Bridge Rd were closed. The Reedy River exceeded established flood stage in downtown Greenville, flooding portions of Cleveland Park.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	$1,000	Several trees were blown down. One fell on a house.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	$1,000	no account filed
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	-	Public reported at least one tree blown down on East Darby Rd. County comms reported power lines blown down in the same area.
May 2024	Hail	Taylors	-	Numerous social media pictures of golf ball size hail from Taylors to Greer. Also, NWS employee reported quarter size hail on Old Spartanburg Rd.
August 2019	Hail	Taylors	-	Multiple reports were received from the public of pea to marble hail, with a couple of reports of quarter size hail.
March 2017	Hail	Taylors	-	Public reported between tennis ball and baseball size 2.5 inch hail at Hudson Rd and Old Spartanburg Rd.
March 2017	Hail	Taylors	-	NWS employee reported 2-inch diameter hail on Overcup Ct.
April 2015	Hail	Taylors	-	Spotter reported up to golf ball size hail near Taylors. Another spotter reported quarter size hail just north of Greer. At least one other quarter size hail report was received from the Greer area.
July 2013	Hail	Taylors	-	Larger than golf ball sized hail fell along highway 290, south of Lake Robinson.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Taylors	-	Public reported that Brushy Creek was out of it's banks and damaging a road in the Kingsgate Subdivision. The bridge on Boiling Springs Road near Brushy Creek was completely submerged.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	-	Several trees were blown down near the intersection of highway 290 and Milford Church Rd. A tree was also blown down on West Gap Creek Rd near highway 101.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	-	Trees were blown down on East Darby Rd, Cantrell Rd at Wofford Rd and N Rutherford Rd at highway 101.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	-	Multiple trees were blown down in the Hudson's Corner area.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	-	Trees and power lines were blown down on the northwest side of the Taylors community.
May 2011	Hail	Taylors	-	Hail up to golf ball size fell in a nearly continuous swath from 5 miles southwest of Greer, across the Five Forks and Mauldin areas, ending in Fountain Inn.
July 2010	Hail	Taylors	-	Dime to quarter size hail fell at Hudson Rd.
December 2009	Flood	Taylors	-	Although heavy rain began to wind down across the area during the late afternoon and early evening, flooding persisted in some areas, while new flooding developed, as runoff worked its way through the waterways. Floodwaters gradually moved down the Reedy River to the Simpsonville area, where flooding did not subside until 6 AM on the 3rd.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	-	One tree down on Center Rd and another down on Lincoln Rd just off of Wade Hampton Blvd. in Taylors.
June 2006	Hail	Taylors	-	Quarter size hail in the Pebble Creek area.
June 2005	Heavy Rain	Taylors	-	Roads covered with water in the Botany Woods subdivision.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	-	Several large limbs were blown down.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Taylors	-	Several roads flooded, including portions of Old Spartanburg Rd and Wade Hampton Bvd. A creek overflowed its banks in Taylors, flooding several yards.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	-	Several small trees were blown down.
September 1994	Hail	Taylors	-	,,,,,,,,Hail (1.75) Greer,25,1215EST,,,0,0,3,0,Hail (1.75) ,,,,,,,,Funnel Cloud
July 2012	Hail	Taylors	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Taylors	-	no account filed
September 2009	Hail	Taylors	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Taylors	-	no account filed
August 2007	Hail	Taylors	-	no account filed
December 2004	Flash Flood	Taylors	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Taylors	-	no account filed
December 2002	Flash Flood	Taylors	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Taylors	-	no account filed
April 2000	Hail	Taylors	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	-	no account filed
February 1997	Flash Flood	Taylors	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Taylors	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylors	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Earle R. Taylor House and Peach Packing Shed	2.5 miles	2012
Greer Post Office	2.6 miles	2011
Greer Mill	2.9 miles	2022
Louie James House	3.3 miles	1996
Greer Downtown Historic District	3.5 miles	2019
Davenport House	3.6 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000439 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Greenville County	All 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.