On 19th anniversary of train crash, Graniteville honors those lost

Got the drone up over Graniteville, SC last week. Our reporter Gunter Schroeder was working on a story involving the South Carolina Textiles Communities Revitalization Act. In the mid-1800s Graniteville was home to some of the largest textile mills in the South. The mills would continue to be used well into the 20th century, but after the tragic train crash in 2005, the mills would close in 2006. The train wreck on January 6, 2005 was one of the worst disasters in our areas history that claimed

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