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Pack the lawn chairs and blankets in the car, visit our local eateries to put together a tasty picnic basket, and plan to relax for a few hours as you listen to some great music.

Picnics in TR

Summer may be coming to an end but who says you can’t go on a picnic?

Wild TR – Look to the Mountains

Writer Tricia Kyzer takes readers to some of the most captivating places that surround Travelers Rest.

Inspiring Signs on the Swamp Rabbit Trail

The City of Travelers Rest has placed a series of interactive signposts displaying inspirational quotes along the Swamp Rabbit Trail to boost community spirit and hope during these uncertain times. The signs can be read as citizens are safely socially distancing themselves (6 feet) and exercising along the Swamp Rabbit Trail between the Trailblazer Park…

The Art of Learning -TR Makers Co

What’s your happiest memory of school as a child? Is it a spelling list? A science quiz? Maybe a social studies lesson? If you’re like most people, these tasks probably didn’t rate very high in your happy moments’ memories. But why not? Maybe spelling was one of your strengths! And certainly, the content you learned…

Movie Magic Came to Travelers Rest – 100 Years Ago

A hundred and one years ago, Travelers Rest experienced one of its biggest event in its history to that point. Over 2,000 gathered, arriving by foot, car, wagon and rail, to the center of town. On October 7, 1917, this community experienced the thrill of a little magic from the early cinema industry. Hollywood had…

Camp Wing, Travelers Rest and a 100 Years Since the Boys Were Sent Over There

In the spring of 1918, if you had been able to travel along Main Street, Travelers Rest was experiencing a frenetic pace of horse wagons and military marching. 100 years ago, the whole region around Paris Mountain was experiencing some of the most tremendous activity the area had ever seen. Just a year before, almost…

Stepping Back in Natural Time at the Bunched Arrowhead Heritage Preserve

Travelers Rest and Northern Greenville are changing and modernizing rapidly, but there are a still so many places to immerse in the land before machines came. Imagine if you had the opportunity to travel back a hundred years or more, and see this land before the buzz of vehicles. While our mountains are an amazing…

When Travelers Rest Was the American Frontier: The Story of “Dicey” Langston Springfield

If you are driving along Tigerville Road, just a few miles north of the center of Travelers Rest, just a mile or so from Hwy 25, you will come across a stone pyramid, about the height of a person. If you go too fast, you will miss it. But where this little monument stands, next…

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