Bettie’s Reviews > Greenville's Heritage > Status Update

A Pleasant Burg - In the early spring of 1797, Lemuel Alston, who owned about 11,000 acres of land around the falls of the Reedy River, laid out a village he named "Pleasantburg". Fom the tear book - Cigar-makers in Cuba make little cheap cigars using paper wrappers; cigarettes. First copper pennies and pound notes are issued in Britain. Battle of Rivoli. Aga Mohammed is assassinated.