BUFFALO, SOUTH CAROLINA

In 1897, a local Industrialist, Thomas C. Duncan announced the plan to build the largest mill in existence on undeveloped land four miles west of Union, South Carolina in a undeveloped area along Buffalo Creek. The town name “Buffalo” is derived from a mineral lick in the area where Buffalo reportedly lived and roamed. Mr. Duncan secured the design and engineering assistance of Mr. W. B. Smith Whaley from Charleston, South Carolina to bring the mill to life. Mr. Whaley had previously completed other similar, beautiful mill projects in South Carolina. The Buffalo Mill Village and complex included the mill, mill office, power house, ice factory, warehouse, company store, and a company bank/drugstore. The building features applied Romanesque Revival detailing. The housing varies from large Queen Anne style supervisor’s houses, a mixture of large and smaller homes, free-classic, a mixture of one and two stories workers residences including shingle-style bungalows. Additionally; it included a school and a baseball field. According to the most recent census (2019), Buffalo is approximately 4.02 square miles with a population of 1, 206 and approximately 618 housing units. Once a kept and thriving mill village, placed on the National Historic Register in 1990, which lost its center attraction with the closing of Buffalo Mill around 1995. There is a replica of the mill/village located in the South State Museum in Columbia, South Carolina recognizing its historical significance and enactment as the most intact mill village in the USA. We would be most appreciative and forever grateful to receive your recognition and investment in our little town. If you choose us, we are confident that you will meet some of the finest and most appreciative people on the planet. We are eager and we are ready to get started. Thanks for your consideration!