Stump Grinding Mauldin SC

Mauldin SC is a city that resides in Greenville County and is located between Greenville and Simpsonville. This area is known for one of the best cartoonists in history William Henry Mauldin.

Mauldin has a rich history of having many different recreational activities to do. Examples of those activities are:

Mauldin Sports Center

This sports center was developed in 2007 and is located off of Center City Drive (Click Here). The MSC developer’s goal was to build a recreation site to help strengthen the community of Mauldin SC. It has a total of 6,500 square feet of room for many different types of fitness activities.

Workout Spaces

• Fitness Area: 3800 sq. ft.
• Group Exercise Room: 2700 sq. ft.
• Gymnasium: 12,800 sq. ft.
  • 94 ft. regulation court
  • Two (2) 74 ft. side courts
• Climbing Center: 2,100 sq. ft.*
  • 32 ft. Rock Wall
• Indoor Walking Track:
  • 1/10 mile
  • 3 lanes
  • 1 lane is reserved for jogging and personal training

Equipment:

• Treadmills
• Elliptical and Cross training machines
• Recumbent bikes and ellipticals
• Rowing machines
• Universal weight machines
• Plate loaded machines
• Free Weights

Specialty Items:

• Multi-gym
• TRX equipment
• Battle ropes
• Plyometric boxes
• Dynamax balls
• Sandbags

Low Country Shrimper Restaurant

Have you ever wondered what happens to athletes after they are done playing their sport? Dontrelle Willis used to be an all-time pitcher in baseball and now he is the owner of Low Country Shrimper Restaurant in Maudlin SC (Click Here).

“I gave up too many home runs, so I fry fish now,” said Deas, who owns the Low Country Shrimper in Mauldin.

The restaurant is a staple in the Golden Strip city’s food scene and Deas is building on his success there with the addition of a second business, an ice cream shop called Pop’s Cabin Creamery next to the Mauldin Cultural Center.

Gosnell Cabin

Not only does Dontrelle Willis own the Low Country Shrimper Restaurant, but he also opened up an ice cream parlor in 2021 called Pop’s Cabin Creamery. Next to it is the Gosnell Cabin which has a huge historical story of its own. On the cabin itself, it is inscribed:

The history of the Gosnell cabin originates 200 years ago. The cabin, with original dimensions of twenty-five by eighteen feet, was built out of twelve-inch thick by eight-inch wide beams of heart pine, and it was built to last.

Gresham Callahan is the first attributed inhabitant of the Gosnell log cabin. According to a log cabin historian, the cabin initially started in the Cherokee Indian style of construction and was finished using the English method. In other words, the cabin was begun by an Indian and finished by a white man. Also, the cabin originally had a dirt floor that was later jacked up and a wooden floor added.

Gresham Callahan first appeared in the record books on the 1810 census. This indicates that he was a resident of Greenville County after 1800 but before 1810. Mr. Callahan had several different monikers, one of which was “Old Indian.”

Origin

The cabin was originally located in northern Greenville County, within a short distance of the historic Poinsett Bridge. Poinsett Bridge was completed in 1819, and the cabin was used as the construction headquarters while the bridge was under construction. Poinsett Bridge is the oldest bridge still standing in South Carolina.

At some point, the ownership of the cabin passed to John H. Goodwin. In 1875 John Goodwin sold the cabin and 300 acres to Rev. John Jack Gosnell for $351.00. Three generations of Gosnells lived in the cabin until 1941.

The Boy Scouts bought the property for a camp in 1927. The last member of the Gosnell family to live in the cabin, Luther Gosnell, served as the caretaker of the property until he died in 1941. The name the Boy Scouts used for their new camp was derived from Gresham Callahan. The name chosen was “Camp Old Indian.”

The dry accounting of dates and numbers does little to reflect the colorful history of the Gosnell log cabin. At a meeting on Aug. 10, 2008, with several granddaughters of Luther Gosnell (Carol Gosnell Long, Tammy Poore Mason, and Kathy Gosnell Janson) the ancient walls of pine echoed again the joys and sadness of life as it will never be known again in Greenville County.

Perhaps as many as ten babies were born in the cabin. Luther’s wife, Lizzie Dill Gosnell, died of measles in 1928 while sitting in a chair in front of the fire. An uncle had his leg amputated on the kitchen table (the table was carried out first).

The Life

In 1941 Luther had an epileptic seizure in front of the fireplace. The attack prevented control of his body and his spasms drove his legs into the hot fire. It was three days before anyone found him and he died of gangrene in the old Greenville General Hospital.

Life was tough in the foothills of Greenville County. Bears in search of food frightened little girls who peeped out at them through the chinks in the logs while remaining deathly still. Panthers, rattlesnakes, and copperheads added to the danger.

Luther made his living as a farmer and a rock mason. There are rumors that he was a moonshiner and a bootlegger. The main meal for his family was corn meal and water, which also happened to be the main ingredients for corn liquor.

After 1941 the cabin remained on the Camp Old Indian property. It fell into disrepair and the camp did not have the resources to keep it up. Sam Phillips, Dave Chesson, and Tim Brett were instrumental in having the cabin removed and restored at the Mauldin Cultural Center grounds. The cabin is undoubtedly one of the oldest remaining structures in Greenville County.

Erected 2009.

Statistics

Greenville ranked in the top 5 growing cities in the United States between 2015-2016. In addition, the city has won numerous awards from top players such as Forbes, Insider, and U.S. News and World Report. 

• Population: 25,654 at the 2021 census
• Area: 12.13 mi²
• Elevation: 942 ft
• Zip Code: 29662

Top Sites in Greenville County:

Falls Park on the Reedy

This park is a 32-acre park adjacent to downtown Greenville, South Carolina, in the historic West End district. Considered the birthplace of Greenville, the park was founded in 1967 when the Carolina Foothills Garden Club reclaimed 26 acres of land that had been previously used by textile mills and added a tourist feature called the Liberty Bridge.

Greenville County Museum of Art

The GCMA is home to the world’s largest public collection of watercolors by iconic American artist Andrew Wyeth and is the only museum in the Upstate to be fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.

Greenville Zoo

Grenville Zoo is a Zoo that is located southeast of downtown Greenville and opened in 1960. The zoo is known for its mostly indigenous animals including bears, deer, bobcats, foxes, ducks, and prairie dogs. A monkey dome was constructed in 1962, and 26 colobus monkeys were added to the zoo’s residents.