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Photograph of Republic Theatre
Photograph by Bill Fitzpatrick, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Republic Theater

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Republic Theater, also known as the Falls Theater, is a historic movie theater located at Great Falls, Chester County, South Carolina. It was built by Republic Cotton Mills in 1921-1922, and is a rectangular, light-colored brick structure on a limestone-colored stucco foundation.”

Wikipedia article Republic Theater (South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Chester County · listed in 1980 · 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. 806 Dearborn St., Great Falls, 29055
  • When was it listed? November 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Great Falls
  • National Register reference number. 80003665 - 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

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Republic Theater between 1992 and 2018, burning about 753 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined40
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural8
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Smoking2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2007Smoking1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Chester County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Republic Theater: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Quartz. 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
Liberty Hill DepositQuartzPast Producer1954
Mitford QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unidentified Granite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerMetamorphosed Igneous Intrusive

Every working recorded in Chester County

Storms near this property

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Great Falls, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 13 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail. 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
September 2004Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls$25,000Two tractor trailers flipped over on I-77 when the drivers lost control due to strong winds.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls$15,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls$5,000Numerous trees and power lines down. At least 1 home was damaged by a fallen tree.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls$1,000EM reported metal sheeting was ripped from a building in Great Falls.
March 2017HailGreat Falls-FD reported 3/4 inch hail.
July 2017HailGreat Falls-FD reported up to 3/4 inch diameter hail.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls-A tree was blown down on Wilson Ave and another was downed on Chester Ave.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls-A few trees were blown down.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls-Siding was torn off a home and large limbs were blown down in Great Falls. Trees were blown down 2 miles south of Ft Lawn.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls-A tree and 4 power lines were blown down in the Great Falls area.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls-Large tree limbs blown down.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls-A few trees were blown down.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls-Numerous trees were blown down.
March 2008HailGreat Falls-no account filed
April 2006HailGreat Falls-no account filed
May 2006HailGreat Falls-no account filed
May 2006HailGreat Falls-no account filed
May 2002HailGreat Falls-no account filed
May 2000HailGreat Falls-no account filed
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls-no account filed
June 2000HailGreat Falls-no account filed
May 1999HailGreat Falls-no account filed
September 1998HailGreat Falls-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindGreat Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chester 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Great Falls Downtown Historic Districtunder 500 feet2000
Great Falls Depot0.4 miles1980

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003665 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chester CountyAll 19 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.