The Yorkville Enquirer reported on July 11, 1878 – “Mr. Marcus L. Brown, well known as a hotel keeper in Winnsboro, has died from heart disease.”
City Directories and History: 1961 – Brice’s Furniture Company
“The Board of Trade of Winnsboro is composed of all the leading merchants of the town and is entirely engaged in studying out plans for its development. The officers are T.H. Ketchin, president; J.M. Beaty, W.R. Doty, and J.Q. Davis, vice presidents; and R.M. Huey, secretary and treasurer. The trade of the town is estimated at one million dollars per annum, and the cotton shipments at about fifteen thousand bales a year.” Reprinted from South Carolina in the 1880s: A Gazetteer by J.H. Moore, Sandlapper Publishing Company – 1989
On the corner next to the town clock on the east of North Congress Street is the open parking lot belonging to the News and Herald Tavern. One hundred years ago a large two story building which stretched into Ratterree’s Carpet and Floor Gallery’s area at 108 North Congress Street was called the Winnsboro Hotel. At the turn of the Nineteenth Century a dry goods emporium owned by McMaster, Brice, and Ketchin occupied this space. The hotel followed this enterprise. It was first managed by Mrs. Mark Brown and by the 1930’s was run by the Dixon family. On the first floor of the hotel, was Roddey’s Cafe, in the early Twentieth Century. Five or six permanent residents also lived above in the hotel. [Information provided by J.M. Lyles]
Reminiscences of Old Winnsboro by P. Rion – 1903 states, “The Fairfield Hotel, kept by Major C. W. Faucett, was where T.H. Ketchin’s now is and the house occupied by J.B. Bailey was the stable of the Fairfield Hotel….”
In 1912 this location is listed as the location of the Winnsboro Hotel, a brick building on the corner of Washington and North Congress.
Click on the More Information > link found below the picture column for additional data or pictures. [Joe Johnson was born in the Winnsboro Hotel]
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