Greer’s rocky history through its incorporation reviewed during 150th celebration. ‘What kind of town dares to be born out of war, bankruptcy, fire and blood?’ speaker asks as his presentation concludes.

Greer’s rocky history through its incorporation reviewed during 150th celebration. ‘What kind of town dares to be born out of war, bankruptcy, fire and blood?’ speaker asks as his presentation concludes.

By JOHN NORTH Upstate S.C. Daily Planet GREER, S.C. — A 150th anniversary program — billed as “the first ‘Story of Greer’ event and titled ‘The Founding’” and unveiling shocking and spine-chilling (as well as inspiring) details of the pre-Greer-area’s history up to its 1876 incorporation as a town — was presented by local history enthusiast David Lovegrove on March 21 in the Historic Greer Depot here. Lovegrove’s 47-minute presentation, in which…