Information and image courtesy of the Lancaster Pictorial History by Bishop and Pettus – 1984
8095 Shelley Mullis Road
City Directories and History: Gothic structure congregation founded in 1841. Building rebuilt in 1919 and remolded in 1957. The cemetery appears to have been established circa 1880. Marker examples include Margaret, wife of D.R. Starnes, June 16, 1857-June 15, 1890; William J. Collins – SC Reserves, CSA, died 1882.
*** Historian, Harvey S. Teal’s S.C. Post Office History, 1989 states: the Belair Post Office or Bel Air Post Office started in 1813 and operated until the Civil War with Fowler Williams, Postmaster.
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This May 1841 survey of John Tut Hagins’s land was only one of more than four hundred land surveys made in the summer and fall of 1841 following the Nation Ford Treaty when the Catawba Indians gave up title to 144,000 acres of land in York and Lancaster counties. Individual landholders turned in their leases and plats to the state of South Carolina, which then issued them a title. This plat shows Hagins with land on both sides of the Camden to Salisbury Road, now Highway 521. The rectangular area in the upper center of the plat represented Belair Village. At that spot was Hagins Inn, a stagecoach stop. Plat from Office of Clerk of Court, Lancaster County Courthouse / Courtesy of the Lancaster County Pictorial History by Bishop and Pettus, 1984
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