[Greenwood County Court House and Confederate Monument, Greenwood, South Carolina]

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Greenwood's county courthouse shares its grounds with a Confederate monument, a pairing common across the South, where these memorials were often placed on the public square of county seats. Most such monuments went up between the 1880s and the 1920s, a period when communities built memorials that honored the Confederate dead and shaped how the Civil War was remembered. The caption card gives no date, and the notes mention Greenwood Drug Co., a detail that has not been verified, so the exact year of the view is uncertain. The streetscape and the monument's placement are worth studying for clues about when it was taken.

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