Greenwood (Greenwood)
Greenwood is located slightly northwest of the center of Greenwood County. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 42.3 km2, of which 42.0 km2 are land and 0.3 sqkm, or 0.72%, are water.
U.S. Routes 25, 178 and 221 pass through the eastern side of the city, bypassing the downtown area. US 25 leads north 51 mi to Greenville and south 63 mi to Augusta, Georgia, US 178 leads northwest 42 mi to Anderson and southeast 29 mi to Saluda, and US 221 leads northeast 26 mi to Laurens and southwest 23 mi to McCormick.
Lake Greenwood, a reservoir on the Saluda River, is 8 mi northeast of the city at its nearest point. The lake has 212 mi of shoreline, covers 11000 acre, and is almost 20 mi long. Lake Greenwood State Park, built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, is 14 mi east of the city on the south shore of Lake Greenwood and includes two boat ramps, a campground, trail and playgrounds, and many picnic areas. The area around Greenwood is locally billed as the "Lakelands", due to several lakes for recreational fishing and diverse terrain for hiking trails.
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Indigenous peoples have inhabited the Americas for thousands of years. Beginning in 1607, British colonization led to the establishment of the Thirteen Colonies in what is now the Eastern United States. They quarreled with the British Crown over taxation and political representation, leading to the American Revolution and proceeding Revolutionary War. The United States declared independence on July 4, 1776, becoming the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of unalienable natural rights, consent of the governed, and liberal democracy. The country began expanding across North America, spanning the continent by 1848. Sectional division surrounding slavery in the Southern United States led to the secession of the Confederate States of America, which fought the remaining states of the Union during the American Civil War (1861–1865). With the Union's victory and preservation, slavery was abolished nationally by the Thirteenth Amendment.
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