City Directories and History: This structure was recorded in 1779 by the survey team looking at Laurens County, S.C. They recorded this structure as the Old Bank of Mountville and Grange Hall having been constructed in circa 1905.
Just a few miles from Cross Hill is the small Town of Mountville. The first settlement in this area was made in 1787 by Solomon Fuller who established his family along Beaverdam Creek so named because of the many beaver dams located along the stream. In 1807 members of the settlement erected on a nearby hill a building which served as both a school and a church. When a star mail route was authorized between Laurens and Chappells it passed through the Beaverdam area where a post office was established. With this newly-gained prominence, some of the settlers objected to the name Beaverdam and suggested that a new name be chosen for the community. The name Mountville was agreed upon since the first building of the new settlement had been on a slight “mount.” When the railroad came through Mountville in the early 1890’s it made the village an important shipping point for cotton and other agricultural products and greatly stimulated the economic and social life of the area. This prosperity, like that of Cross Hill, later declined with the economic and technological changes of the twentieth century.
(Information from: Names in South Carolina by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC)
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