LOMINACK: Located on the Pinckney-Yorkville Road at the home of ____ Lominack, this post office as in operation around 1888. The Yorkville Enquirer reported on Aug. 7, 1889 – “Mrs. Mary E. Shannon will be Postmaster of the new PO of Lominack, established six miles SW of Yorkville on the route to Bullock’s Creek.”
LOCUST HILL: Located north of Sharon, presently intersects with Sutton Springs Road and McGill Road. This could have been part of the old Howell’s Ferry Road, used to get from York to Howell’s Ferry on the Broad River, before the Sharon-York road was built.
McCOOL’S STORE: Sometime in the late 1830s James A. McCool owned and operated a mercantile business on the Pinckney’s Ferry Road near the Chester County line. In 1845 a petition was presented to the State Legislature requesting a public road from McCool’s store to Osborne’s Mill on Lockhart Shoals. Signers of the petition were: James G. Robinson, John L. Carroll, John Gilmore, Madison Sherer, John Jamison, William Hamilton, John W. McGowan, Hezekiah Sanders, Loftin Sherer, Robin Wilson, William Black, William Sherer, Thomas Sherer, Thomas Love, James M. Love, Samuel Kirkpatrick and James A. McCool.
McDILL’S STORE James N. McDill opened his mercantile business in 1860 in what is now Hickory Grove. It was a voting precinct it 1876 and probably other years as well. In 1904 McDill got out of the mercantile business to devote his time to the “undertaking business” which had been a sideline before.
McSWAIN MINE: Located on Bullock’s Creek, three miles east of Howell’s Ferry. (The Rock Hill Herald reported on May 27, 1880 – “The Broad River Gol Mine and McSwain Gold Mine in the Broad River and Bullock’s Creek Townships of York County are to be developed at once.”)
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