{"id":3903,"date":"2014-02-03T14:54:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T14:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rootsandrecall.com\/laurens\/?post_type=buildings&p=3903"},"modified":"2020-08-10T22:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T22:35:32","slug":"rapley-owings-home","status":"publish","type":"buildings","link":"https:\/\/www.rootsandrecall.com\/laurens\/buildings\/rapley-owings-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapley Owings Home – Owings, S.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

City Directories and History:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>In the Owings Community, this area was originally called Rapley in honor of Rapley Owings one of the earliest settlers in the area.<\/p>\n

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Located northwest of Laurens and four miles from the Greenville County line was a small settlement known as Powers Shop<\/span> which played an important role as a shipping point for mail and supplies during the Civil War. In the late 1800\u2019s a number of businesses and a cotton gin were established about a mile southeast of Powers Shop, a site nearer the county courthouse. The new community was named Owings in honor of a prominent member of the community who had moved from Duvall\u2019s Crossroad. As the community grew the citizens submitted a petition requesting the establishment of a post office. When notified that there was another community in the state by the name of Owings, the inhabitants decided to use the middle name of Francis Rapley Owings and the postal department accepted this as the designation of the post office. For a number of years the railway station was known as Owings and the post office was Rapley. In time, however, the latter name was dropped and the name Owings was retained.<\/p>\n

(Information from: Names in South Carolina<\/em> by C.H. Neuffer, Published by the S.C. Dept. of English, USC)<\/p>\n

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City Directories and History:\u00a0In the Owings Community, this area was originally called Rapley in honor of Rapley Owings one of the earliest settlers in the area. Located northwest of Laurens and four miles from the Greenville County line was a small settlement known as Powers Shop which played an important role as a shipping point… <\/p>\n

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