About Limestone College

Limestone University, formerly Limestone College, is a private Christian academic world in Gaffney, South Carolina. It was traditional in 1845 by Thomas Curtis, a distinguished scholar born and educated in England. Limestone was the first women’s school in South Carolina and one of the first in the nation; it is the third-oldest moot in South Carolina. Ten buildings upon the campus, as well as the Limestone Springs and limestone quarry itself, are upon the National Register of Historic Places. In the 1960s, Limestone became thoroughly coeducational and in 2020 its name misused from Limestone College to its current proclaim of Limestone University.

In complement to its time-honored Day Campus located in Gaffney, SC, the university provides an Online Program degree path, along in the way of being of Student Service Centers in Charleston, Columbia, Gaffney, Greenville, and Florence.

Gaffney is a town in and the seat of Cherokee County, South Carolina, United States, in the Upstate region of South Carolina. Gaffney is known as the “Peach Capital of South Carolina”. The population was 12,539 at the 2010 census, with an estimated population of 12,609 in 2019. It is the principal city of the Gaffney, South Carolina, Micropolitan Statistical Area (population 55,662 according to 2012 estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau), which includes whatever of Cherokee County and which is other included in the greater Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina Combined Statistical Area (population 1,384,996 according to year 2012 U.S. Census Bureau estimates).