Norris’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Norris. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusNorris is a town in Pickens County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Norris had a population of 741. It is part of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 813 to 741 (-9%). Half of its homes were built before 1971.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Norris yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Norris’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Norris’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewLower Gassaway Bridge, State Rout…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Norris
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Norris, decade by decade
2000
unknown1 item
Nothing in Norris is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Norris has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Central Roller Mills in Central, 3.3 miles away.
Norris and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Lower Gassaway Bridge, State Route 137, spanning Twelve Mile Creek and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.