1873

January 24: Walter Merritt Riggs, future Clemson president, is born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, to Harpin and Emma Gowan Riggs. His father, a Northerner, was a producer of carriage parts. His mother was a Southerner.
March 15: National founding of Phi Sigma Kappa.
August 21: The Air Line depot "at Easley Station has been rapidly constructed" reports The Pickens Sentinel this date, one of only two extant issues for that year (Volume 3 of the publication). ("The Pickens Sentinel, Pickens Court House, South Carolina, 1872-1893, Historical and Genealogical Abstracts, Volume 1, compiled by Peggy Burton Rich and Marion Ard Whitehurst, Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, 1994, ISBN 1-55613-985-3, page 4.)
September 28: Train service first reaches Calhoun, South Carolina (later Clemson) after the Atlanta & Richmond Air Line Railway spends three years constructing a five-foot gauge line between Atlanta and Charlotte.

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The 1870's

1874