Cross Hill, SC

Cross Hill is a town in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States. The 2020 census counted 404 residents. Cross Hill is part of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area. Cross Hill developed around the intersection of two old Indian trails. The district's comprehensive high school is Clinton High School. That mix gives Cross Hill a clear local shape within South Carolina, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. The Carter family constructed an inn at the intersection of these two trails in 1795. Cross Hill is concentrated around the intersection of South Carolina Highway 39 and South Carolina Highway 560, northeast of Greenwood. Lake Greenwood lies just to the west.