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* PARIS MOUNTAIN. *

This mountain stands a few miles North of Greenville, and some twenty miles South of the Main Range of the Blue Ridge. It is said by Geologists to be the oldest Mountain in this section, ante-dating the Main Range of the Blue Ridge by many, many years.

It received its name from one of Greenville's earliest white settlers, Richard Paris (Pearis). Paris came to this section at or about the beginning of the war of the American Revolution, (1776.)

He settled in what is now the City of Greenville, his house standing on a hill West of the River where Chicora College once stood. He married a Cherokee Indian Woman, and operated a small water mills on the Falls of the Reedy. Owing to his friendliness to the British Cause, he was so unpopular with the Patriots who lived in this locality, that at the close of the war his property was confiscated and he left the Country, and tradition says later died in the Bermuda Islands.

Paris Mountain is part of a Range running parrallel to the Main Range, and among the other Mountains in this Range is Piney, Six Mile, Glassy and Roper Mountain, six miles South of Greenville on the Pelham Road. As stated these mountains are much older than the Main Range, and Geologists tell us that erosion have worn these mountains down to their present heights, and that they were once higher and more rugged than Ceasars Head, or the High Peaks in North Carolina.

Some day Paris Mountain will be appreciated as it should be, and crowned with Summer Homes and places of amusement, it will prove to be as it really is - Greenville's Greatest Undeveloped Asset!!!!!

[Handwritten note at bottom of page]
The above sketch was prepared by Mr. John S. Taylor of Greenville. The rock from Paris mountain was given to camp by Mr. David Kohn, Sr., of Greenville.