| Anderson South Carolina is an attractive place to | | | | Nowadays the leading source of income for people in |
| visit, to live in or to go on vacation. It offers high to | | | | Anderson, South Carolina, is manufacturing and it |
| medium temperature ranges along with very low | | | | brings to the citizens, whose average age is 38, an |
| housing costs. It has a population of just over 2500 | | | | average income of about $28000 per year. On the |
| people and an average of 18 minutes to work | | | | contrary in the early times of the city the community |
| commute. In addition to that there are lots of | | | | was primarily into farming - mostly hogs and corn and |
| interesting details that comprise its history. There are | | | | some textile industry also was featured. |
| facts and trivia of Anderson and the surroundings in | | | | In respect to education there are Anderson |
| the area. The crime rate there is also very low. | | | | University and The Anderson Adult Education Center, |
| As the city was once powered by local water will on | | | | three middle schools, ten elementary schools and |
| the Rocky River, it was the first one in the United | | | | academies and a pre-school South Fant Early |
| States to be proud with uninterrupted electricity. This | | | | Childhood Center. There are also two high schools |
| was the reason for Anderson, South Carolina to be | | | | there - T. L .Hanna High School and Westside High |
| nicknamed The Electric City. | | | | School, which can altogether, provide an alumni rate |
| This area was first inhabited by Cherokees and in | | | | of 70% of the 25-year-old and older. |
| 1977 it was transferred to a surveyor called Andrew | | | | Anderson, South Carolina offers 70% sunshine |
| Pickens, with a treaty. The Pendleton region, as it | | | | year-round and temperature does not go higher that |
| was called back then had two divisions - Anderson | | | | 90 degrees. The actual crime rate is as low as 7,8 |
| and Pickens. The first one called after General Robert | | | | percent and no one wonders why it was the first |
| Anderson, who was a partner in his surveys of | | | | perpetually electrified city, no matter that the first |
| Andrew Pickens whose name was given to the | | | | battle of the Civil War was there, in the same place |
| second one. | | | | where the first Red Spider Lilies were grown in the |
| Due to the fact that Pickens was close to Pendleton | | | | USA. This very city, being the smallest of the three |
| people established a township further from Pendleton | | | | upcountry area ones in not only the seat of |
| and closer to the county center. They called the new | | | | Anderson County but is also dubbed "The Friendliest |
| one Anderson Courthouse. So in fact Anderson, | | | | City in South Carolina" and renowned for its |
| South Carolina started its existence not as a city or a | | | | amicability and accessibility. |
| town but as a courthouse. | | | | |