City Directories and History: The 1986 historic survey of Chester Co., listed this location……
The Yorkville Enquirer reported on Oct. 16, 1879 – “The house of Mary Rice, colored, on James M. Knox’s place near Pleasant Grove was entered by a thieve.”
The Yorkville Enquirer reported on July 2, 1885 – “A picnic was held at Pleasant Grove Church celebrating the successful close of the academic year of Mr. Torbit Henry’s School.”
The Yorkville Enquirer reported on Dec. 7, 1887 – “A new and commodious church has recently been erected by the Pleasant Grove Pres. congragtion.”
“Julius Calhoun Carpenter, a prominent building contractor and furniture maker in Chester, was born August 19, 1860 in Union County, South Carolina. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Alvin Carpenter, Sr. His mother’s maiden name is not known by the now living descendants. In his obituary it was mentioned that his father served in the Confederate Army, survived the war but died shortly afterward. Julius Carpenter and his family resided at 166 York Street and he had a brother, Monroe Alvin Carpenter, Jr., who lived during the 1920’s about a half block away on the opposite side of the street in the brick house on the corner of York and Foote Streets. Monroe had formerly resided on Gadsden Street with his first wife, by whom he had a daughter, Marie, who married Frank B. Coogler and lived in Brooksville, Florida. They had four children, Monroe Alvin Googler, Frank B. Coogler, Jr., Mamie T. Coogler, and Marie I. Coogler. Monroe resided on York Street with his second wife, Ora L. Carpenter. His first wife had died many years before.
On April 9, 1884, Julius married Amanda Jane (Janie) Albright, eldest daughter of George Alexander and Amanda Melvina Farrar Albright. She was born in Chester, South Carolina, on January 24, 1863. Her father was an architect, carpenter, and home builder who owned a large shop in Chester during the 1880’s. He made doors, blinds, mantle pieces and other wooden parts for houses he constructed. Julius Carpenter joined his father-in-law, who probably taught him many skills of the woodworking trade, in contracting to build houses and buildings in and around Chester. The wooden frame Pleasant Grove Presbyterian Church on the Great Falls Road completed in January 1888 was built by Albright and Carpenter.”
(Information in part from: Chester County Heritage Book, Vol. I, Edt. by Collins – Knox, Published by the Chester Co Hist. Society – Jostens Printing, 1982)
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