Keowee Roast House

Keowee Roast House is a family owned and operated business. Our objective is to offer our customers the highest quality products and services in the marketplace. We provide this within a collaborative environment that fosters relationships with our customers and our peers.

We want our store settings to provide for an art gallery, bookstore and intimate coffee shoppe’ feel that our customers can enjoy and look forward to experiencing. We provide smoke-free environments, with a strong customer loyalty focused business model. We are committed to inclusive philosophies, and strive to learn, grow and embrace change and new ideas while serving Greenville, South Carolina and the surrounding areas. Nestled in the Northwest corner of South Carolina, forty-fi ve miles from Greenville, is Lake Keowee. The 18,500 acres of water and 300 miles of shoreline provide Upstate residents with a beautiful and natural setting for sailing, fi shing, hiking and numerous other wildlife activities. Keowee Village (or Keowee Town) was located to the South of what is now the Lake Jocassee Dam, and served as the capital for the Lower Cherokee Indians. Locally recognized names such as “Jocassee”, “Toxaway”, “Oconee” and “Eastatoee” are derived from the Cherokee language. The name Keowee meant “The Place of the Mulberry” and Oconee meant “Watery Eyes of the Hills”- widely believed to describe the many springs, creeks and streams that drain off the Blue Ridge Escarpment.

With the Blue Ridge Mountains serving as its backdrop, Lake Keowee provides a present-day water supply for Greenville and Seneca. The Upstate area, rich with history predating the founding of Greenville and the surrounding cities and towns, is a stark reminder of the symbiotic relationship between the Indians and the early European Settlers. With sweat and fierce determination, the settlers carved farms and homes into the remote and rugged terrain known as the Keowee Valley and Jocassee Gorges long before the birth of Greenville from the banks of the Reedy River. Decades later, with the advent of the railroad, the textile industry was born and many of the mountain inhabitants migrated from their isolated homesteads to work in the Greenville, Anderson, Spartanburg, Pickens and surrounding small-town mills. Today, their legacy lives on as Greenville serves its culturally diverse citizens as a thriving and prosperous international city.

Keowee Roast House is a small refection and reminder of the historical influences on the original settlement, its growth as the Textile Capital and its vision as a knowledge-based economy poised to serve its diverse citizens.