Watts Mills, SC

Watts Mills is also known as Wattsville, and the name comes from Watts Mill, the textile mill that stood at the community’s center. The Laurens County unincorporated community sits on a ridge between streams flowing toward the Little River, with U.S. 221 through the middle and Laurens just to the southwest. Wattsville is in Laurens School District 55, but the local story starts with the mill, the ridge, and the water lines around it. This is upstate South Carolina mill country with two names for one place.