//Upstate county remembers stay-at-home orders during Spanish Flu pandemic

Upstate county remembers stay-at-home orders during Spanish Flu pandemic

We’ve heard the phrase “stay home” several times over the past several weeks. There was a similar message sent more than a hundred years ago in Spartanburg County during the Spanish flu pandemic.”The quarantine practices were very similar to what we’re experiencing now, that places of entertainment were closed, churches were closed, schools were closed,” Brad Steinecke, a local historian at the Spartanburg Public Libraries,