History of Boiling Springs

BOILING SPRINGS, S.C. (WSPA) - The history of Boiling Springs is quite literally in the name; the boiling spring itself still flows just off Highway 9.

Now, a sea of businesses and commuters, Boiling Springs looks a lot different than it did just a few decades ago.

Cleon Graves has lived here since 1949. He reminisced on a time when you knew every face on every street, and they knew yours.

"Boiling Springs at one time was a nice little bedroom community," he explained. "You could go down Highway 9 and left and right, you could name all the houses. Today it would take an absolute genius with a high-powered computer to do that.”

He remembers a close-knit farm town, best known for its peaches.

He talked about his teenage days. "We were talking about back in th

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