Croft State Park is a state park in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, located on land used during World War II as Camp Croft, a US Army basic training center and prisoner-of-war camp. The land that is now Croft State Park was farmed from the late 18th century, and old farmsteads can still be found in the park as well as six family cemeteries and two church …
Croft State Park is a state park in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, located on land used during World War II as Camp Croft, a US Army basic training center and prisoner-of-war camp. The land that is now Croft State Park was farmed from the late 18th century, and old farmsteads can still be found in the park as well as six family cemeteries and two church cemeteries. During the Revolutionary War, a skirmish between Patriots and Loyalists was fought at the juncture of Fairforest and Kelsey creeks. In the late 19th century a four-story hotel at Whitestone Springs attracted resort visitors to the supposedly healing lithium springs. The hotel burned in 1930, but the spring and some foundations remain and are accessible via a hiking trail.
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