The Anderson Intelligencer on Dec. 13, 1888 reported – “The Grand Lodge of Masons will convene on Dec. 27 for the purpose of laying the cornerstone of the new hotel.”
City Directories and History: 1909 – Carter F. Alston, elk Hotel Chiquola, Bob King (Proprietor – City Dirt.),
The Downtown Anderson Historic District has added information on the city’s heritage and this building. Also known as the Hotel Chiquola, constructed in 1888 in the Romanesque Revival style. The interview if Mr. Earle M. Wilhite states, “my uncle Frank Wilhite was the mover and shaker behind opening the Chiquola Hotel….”
1909 – The 1909 Anderson City Directory recorded, “BROWN FRED. (Mamie), prest and treas Brown’s Loan & Realty Co., r Hotel Chiquola” and “Carpenter, Ernest A., sales Sullivan Hdw Co, r Hotel Chiquola” and “CELY T. LLOYD, sec and treas J.O. Jones Co, r Chiquola Hotel, also Dickson J. Walter, district agt Pacific Mutual Life Ins Co of Los Angeles, Calf., 119.5 E Benson, r Hotel Chiquola, also; McClure J. Fletcher (Lola), trav sales, r Hotel Chiquola, also; Masters E. Walter, mdse Broker, rear 118 North Main, r Hotel Chiquola, also; Stillwell John T., mngr Stillwell Cigar Co, r Hotel Chiquola
CHIQUOLA DRUG COMPANY 1909 – RICHARDSON JAMES M. (Mattie), Chiquola Drug Company and physician, no West Whitner, r 127 West River Street, also; Kenneth Richardson, clerk at drug store, same address…
Chicora; Chiquola—This name appears to be imported into Anderson County. The second form is pronounced Chieola; some Cherokees used I and others r. It was an Indian name early Spaniards used for a Carolina region and has been supposed to mean dwelling at a distance. It is probably East Siouan or Sura and has been associated with Shakori, meaning perhaps, “houses down there,” evidently in the Catawba Indian area, though again it has been vaguely tied to
Sanborn map Diagram of the Hotel Chiquola in 1896
Cofatachiqui, probably Muskhogean or Creek, and visited by De Soto at Silver Bluff a short distance below the present Augusta. From this Indian town De Soto evidently began his northward march that led through Anderson County. Francisco de Chicorana, “a charming liar who was baptized,” was captured as a slave and taken to Santo Domingo where his story of his land so intrigued the Spanish governor that it led to the attempted colonization of Carolina. Francisco thus got back to his native shores and deserted, but in the meantime he had supplied Peter Martyr with the material for a history, and may perhaps thus be called our first historian, and a fore-runner of Weems and his “character-building” lies on Washington.
Courtesy of the Wingard Postcard Collection – 2013 The 1909 City Directory reported, “Laurens P. Fouche (Maye), Chiquola Drug Co, r Hotel Pickens”
(Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC)
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