Walking Tour

Before European immigrants moved to Spartanburg, founding textile mills and creating a township, the lands where Wofford sits were the hunting grounds of the Cherokee and other indigenous peoples. When Wofford was founded, the college was situated on the city of Spartanburg’s northern border. Now Wofford, which is a short walk from the restaurants, hotels and shops in downtown Spartanburg, is surrounded by other colleges and universities, Spartanburg Regional Medical Center and our neighbors in the Northside community.

In 2002, Wofford’s 180-acre campus was designated as the Roger Milliken Arboretum. More than 5,000 trees have been planted since 1992.

The Burwell Building, named for Ethel and Ernest Burwell, was first opened in 1969 and has been the college’s main dining hall ever since. The first Wofford Theatre productions were staged in the Montgomery Room in this building. Another meeting and gathering rooms in the building are named for Al Gray ’71 and Doug Jones ’69, the college’s first African American student and its first African American graduate, respectively. Anna Todd Wofford, founder Benjamin Wofford’s first wife also has a room named in her memory.