Slater-Marietta is a census-designated place (CDP) in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States, along the North Saluda River. At the 2000 census, there were 2,228 people. At the 2010 census, there were 2,176. At the 2020 census, there were 1,873. It is part of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
J. Harvey Cleveland, born in 1815, invested in land in northern Greenville County, including a tract along the North Saluda River which he bought from his father-in-law about 1840. Cleveland expanded the simple home on the property and made it his family home. He also plotted a nearby settlement, named "Marietta" after his wife, Mary Louisa Williams.
In 1927, the Slater family announced they would build a mill nearby and a Slater village around it, on land bought from Cleveland family members. The new Slater Mill opened in 1928, was very successful, and overwhelmed the two communities, which became referred to as Slater-Marietta. In 1946, the Slaters sold their mill to J.P. Stevens & Company, and the J.P. Stevens' Slater Plant went on to produce the main material for the space suits used on the first Moon landing in 1969 as well as Space Shuttle components.
2020 census
{| class="wikitable"
|+Slater-Marietta racial composition
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|White (non-Hispanic)
|1,767
|84.67%
|-
|Black or African American (non-Hispanic)
|16
|0.77%
|-
|Native American
|3
|0.14%
|-
|Asian
|7
|0.34%
|-
|Other/Mixed
|87
|4.17%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino
|207
|9.92%
|}
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,087 people, 673 households, and 408 families residing in the CDP.
2000 census
As of the census