Greenville Liberty Bridge in Rainbow by Jamie Calkin - 100 piece jigsaw puzzle

The lands of present-day Greenville, SC were once the hunting ground of the Cherokee and forbidden to colonists. Even so, around 1754 Richard Pearis, Greenville's first European settler, arrived in South Carolina to establish relations with the native peoples. By 1770, Pearis had sired a child with a Cherokee woman and received about 100,000 acres from the Cherokee - ultimately establishing a plantation on the Reedy River in what is now downtown Greenville.Downtown Greenville is bisected by a wooded valley park containing the falls of the Reedy River. Falls Park on the Reedy is 32-acres and was founded in 1967 when the Carolina Foothills Garden Club reclaimed land previously used by textile mills. Dedicated in 2004, the park is home to the Liberty Bridge - a 345 ft. long pedestrian suspension bridge that curves around the 28 ft. waterfalls below (the site of the 1768 Pearis trading post, and later-built grist & saw mills). With cables on only one side, giving an unobstructed view o