History
For more than 100 years, from the very late 1700s to the early 1900s, the Conestee area was a major factor in the development of what is now the greater Greenville area - particularly its early industrial growth. From the establishment of a mill sometime in the 1790's and the start-up of the Carruth Armory (gun factory) before 1815, through the operation of the Patterson/Dunham Paper Mill and the McBee Manufacturing/Reedy River Factory complex in the mid nineteenth century, the Conestee area lead Greenville into the industrial age. A lawsuit brought by Conestee Mills against the City of Greenville in 1925 for pollution of the Reedy River was an early landmark in the fight to restore South Carolina's rivers from the damage done by discharge of municipal and industrial wastes.Detailed History of Conestee 
The Lake in Transition
Conestee Mill and Dam