American Revolutionary heroine Dicey Langston's home, now site of a historical marker, is located just north of the city proper. Goodwin House and George Salmon House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. While unincorporated, most of the area was known as Bates Township during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Travelers Rest was most recently incorporated as a city in 1959, although there was an 1891 incorporation that expired. For those going north into the mountains from the coast through Greenville, Travelers Rest was the first well equipped stop to prepare for the several thousand foot climb ahead of them.
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This road, once fully completed in the mid-1850's, was full of wagon traffic. In 1794, the South Carolina General Assembly appropriated $2,000 to construct a wagon road from Greenville, SC, north into the Blue Ridge Mountains, through Asheville, North Carolina, ending in East Tennessee.
Furman University, a private liberal-arts university, was annexed into the city limits of Travelers Rest in April of 2018 and North Greenville University, a private Christian institution, is located in nearby Tigerville, SC. Travelers Rest, the northernmost city in Greenville County, is located 10 miles north of Greenville and around 20 miles south of the North Carolina border. It is part of the Greenville-Mauldin-Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,788 at the 2020 census. Travelers Rest is a city in Greenville County, South Carolina.
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