We are working to put our Campobello historical papers online.
How Campobello got its name, and the early days of Campobello:
Woman Gasped, and That Gave Campobello A Name (undated)
1992 postcard on story of Campobello’s name
Carl May, Small Idea Started Town – 1955
Our Heritage by Michael Leonard, undated (possibly 2011)
Town of Campobello
Many years before the War Between the States, Mrs. Hosea Dean owned a plantation near present day Campobello, which included a large portion of land near the South Pacolet River. In those days, it was a beautiful sight, all in corn. So much corn was grown on these fields that regular pilgrimages were made to purchase corn and the men who owned the land near the river were called, “The Corn Kings.”
On one occasion, Mrs. Dean was riding horseback from Spartanburg to her plantation and came upon Windmill Hill to look over the valley before her. The beautiful sight struck her with such force that she exclaimed in two Italian words, “Camp Bello,” which means beautiful field.
The town was chartered in 1882 as a town at the foothills of the Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains that catered to the farmer with corn and cotton fields. The town had farm supply stores mixed with general merchandise shops.
Like many other small Spartanburg County towns like Glenn Springs and Cherokee Springs, Campobello had a tourist hotel featuring mineral water that was said to be an elixir of health.
https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2011/11/18/whats-in-your-towns-name/29880402007
Miscellaneous
Cowan’s Grocery receipt from Tryon 1950
Campobello Bottling Works
