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Geography. Converse is located at 34°59′44″N 81°50′35″W (34.995665, -81.843059). [4] These coordinates place the CDP in the east side of the county, between the city of Spartanburg and the town of Cowpens . According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total land area of 0.690 square mile (1.786 km 2) and a total water ...
Converse University. / 34.9546083°N 81.9170861°W / 34.9546083; -81.9170861. Converse University is a private university in Spartanburg, South Carolina. It was established in 1889 by a group of Spartanburg residents and named after textile pioneer Dexter Edgar Converse. It was originally a women's college but now admits men.
By the 1950s, Chuck Taylor All Stars had become a standard among high school, collegiate, and professional basketball players. [10]In the 1960s, Converse had captured about 70 to 80 percent of the basketball shoe market, with Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars being worn by ninety percent of professional and college basketball players.
September 25, 2007. Converse Heights Historic District is a national historic district located at Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It encompasses 460 contributing buildings in a residential section of Spartanburg. The district documents the prevalent housing types for middle and upper class citizens from about 1900 to 1940.
Converse (/ ˈ k ɒ n v ər s /) is an American lifestyle brand that markets, distributes, and licenses footwear, apparel, and accessories.Founded by Marquis Mills Converse in 1908 as the Converse Rubber Shoe Company in Malden, Massachusetts, it has been acquired by several companies before becoming a subsidiary of Nike, Inc. in 2003.
Converse is a city in Bexar County, Texas, United States, 15 miles (24 km) northeast of downtown San Antonio. As of the 2020 census , it had a population of 27,466. [ 6 ] It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area .
There are 60 colleges and universities in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The University of South Carolina in Columbia is the largest university in the state, by enrollment. [ 1] Trident Technical College in North Charleston is the largest two-year college. [ 2] The oldest institution is the College of Charleston, founded in 1770 and ...
October 5, 2015. The Converse Mill, also known as Clifton Mill #3, is a historic textile mill at 200 High Street in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The main mill building is a four-story brick building with smaller additions, sited on 11 acres (4.5 ha) overlooking the Pacolet River to the east. The mill was built in 1903 on the site of Clifton ...