City Directories and History: Another very fine home in what once was Blackstock’s most fashionable street, is the Meadow McKeown home which was reported to have also served as the home of a local dentist. Later it was acquired by Earmilee Lowe and is now occupied by her son, Frank Parsons. Mr. Meadow McKeown is reported to have been the town’s blacksmith. The small frame building seen on the 1934 Sanborn Map against the road appears likely the structure moved in circa 1968 by Mrs. Bankhead to her home on Mountain Gap Road.
Mrs. Erleen S. Bankhead was responsible for saving this beautiful building. It has been written; “Erleen and her three elder sisters all committed their lives to public education. Their youngest sister went to nursing school and found another career to help those in need. When Erleen decided to retire, a few years ago,… her passion turned to be a collection of historical artifact a passion to pass history to young people across several communities. She found the perfect instrument to document those passions in the little town of Blackstock, on the border of Fairfield and Chester counties. The old building was near the historic Will Durham store and in circa 1968 she acquired the “jewel” and moved it ten miles to the Bankhead farm. The old apothecary-store became her next passion in life. In her research she found the building had been on the property of the Douglass family and she believes it was the medical office of Dr. Lawrence Sylvester Douglass or other family members. She continues being devoted to the preservation of the old building and has maintained it beautifully for over forty years.” J. L. of Winnsboro, S.C.
Author, William W. Hall wrote, “My great-uncle, Johnny Mobley, owned a little store building in his side yard. Years after his death, a lady who lived about ten miles out on the country purchased this beautiful little gingerbread building. Uncle Johnny’s business consisted mostly of selling patent medicines.”
*** The street number is approximate.
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