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Reedy River Falls

The Reedy River falls tumbling over rocks in Falls Park, with a downtown Greenville office tower behind the trees, South Carolina.
Artwork FileGreenville, South Carolina, USA

Reedy River Falls

SeenApr 2026

Natural waterfall · Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Photo: Yousef Abdul-Husain / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), as also published on Street Art Utopia.

The falls of the Reedy River are the heart of Falls Park on the Reedy in downtown Greenville. Source Checked In 2002 the city began removing the Camperdown Bridge, the road bridge that spanned the river in the park. Source Checked

Seen Apr 2026: the newest dated photograph we found on Wikimedia Commons shows the falls on 24 April 2026 (in More photos below). The photo above is titled 25 April 2021, while its camera date reads 12 April 2021. Source Checked

More photos

Coloured 1907 postcard of the Reedy River Falls in Greenville, with buildings on the bank.
1907 The falls on a postcardPhoto: Raphael Tuck & Sons (postcard) / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
The Reedy River falls spilling over red rocks in Falls Park, with downtown Greenville buildings and a bridge behind, April 2024.
2024 The falls in spring, April 2024Photo: CantoV / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The Reedy River falls among rocks and trees with downtown Greenville towers behind, April 2026.
2026 Downtown towers behind the falls, April 2026Photo: DCAllStar / Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

💡 4 things to know

  1. Where Greenville beganThe garden club’s history says Richard Pearis settled at the falls in the 1770s, built a grist mill and a sawmill, and founded the settlement it calls the birthplace of Greenville; further down, the same page says the falls were first inhabited by Pearis in 1700. We lean towards the 1770s: the page gives that decade in its account of Pearis’s settlement, and 1700 appears only once, in a sentence about the 2002 project. Source Conflicting
  2. A garden club’s parkIn 1967 the Carolina Foothills Garden Club set out to reclaim the Reedy River, and Furman University deeded six acres for a falls park. Source Checked
  3. The road bridge came downFrom 2002 the city removed the Camperdown traffic bridge and built a pedestrian bridge in its place, as part of a $13 million project. Source Checked
  4. A bridge to see the fallsVisit Greenville says the curved, 345-foot Liberty Bridge was built to reveal the falls. Source Checked

📍 Where it is

Falls Park on the Reedy, downtown Greenville, South Carolina. Source Checked

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🗓️ Sightings

  1. 1907

    Falls on a postcard · Wikimedia Commons

  2. 1967

    Reclaiming of the river began · Carolina Foothills Garden Club

  3. 1973

    Park listed on the National Register of Historic Places

  4. 2002

    Camperdown Bridge removal began

  5. 200410 Sep

    New Falls Park officially opened

  6. 2021

    Photographed (camera date 12 Apr, title 25 Apr) · Wikimedia Commons

  7. 202412 Apr

    Photographed in spring · Wikimedia Commons

  8. 202624 Apr

    Photographed with downtown towers behind · Wikimedia Commons

Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark dated records and reports.

✅ The facts

River
Reedy River Source Checked
Park
Falls Park on the Reedy Source Checked
Park size
26 acres Source Checked
Bridge removed
Camperdown Bridge, from 2002 Source Checked
Reopened
10 September 2004 Source Checked

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Last checked: 3 November 2026. How we verify art