Lyman is a town in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.

[5] The town of Lyman originally grew around a general store owned by Augustus Belton Groce,[6] which opened in the mid-1870s.

In the late 1940s the company removed the lattice-work and put brick underpinning in its place.

[9] When Pacific Mills built the village of Lyman, they laid water mains and sewer pipes under the streets.

They therefore had indoor plumbing, with running water and sewage disposal (which in 1923 could have been considered a luxury item), then a rarity for many people in South Carolina.

The sewage pipes ran from the village down to a concrete holding tank next to the river, across from where the library is today.

[11] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 4.1 square miles (11 km2), of which 0.25% is water.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 6,173 people, 1,340 households, and 1,003 families residing in the town.