Lyman is a town in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. Its population was 6,173 at the 2020 census.

The town of Lyman originally grew in the region of a general accrual owned by Augustus Belton Groce, which opened in the mid-1870s. This led to the community becoming known as Groce’s Stop. In 1923, the Groce relatives sold exceeding 700 acres (280 ha) to Pacific Mills. By the later year the Lyman Printing and Finishing Mill had been constructed, and by 1927, Pacific Mills had built 375 homes as housing for their employees. The town was later renamed in memory of Arthur T. Lyman, a former president of the mill. Lyman prospered for years as a textile town, but by 2005 the last mill was closed.

The Pacific Mills company kept occurring their employees’ houses, the streets and the help alleys. The help alleys were dirt, so crews from the reforest would bring dump trucks of cinders from the burnt coal at the boiler room, and take forward them occurring and all along the support alleys to save them from getting muddy. The houses were finished upon the outside, with cypress wood for the underpinning. In the late 1940s the company removed the lattice-work and put brick underpinning in its place. The houses were four, five and six room houses with unprejudiced designs. Pacific Mills broke from the usual, salt-box style home design of most cotton mill villages. When the village of Lyman was built, it was a showcase for cotton mill villages. Ridge Road was permit for the presidency staff of the company. The houses there were made out of the similar materials as the extra houses, but they were larger and of nicer designs.

When Pacific Mills built the village of Lyman, they laid water mains and sewer pipes below the streets. All of the houses and buildings were hooked occurring to these. They for that reason had indoor plumbing, with presidency 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 the length of to a genuine holding tank adjacent to the river, across from where the library is today.