City Directories and History: 1958 and 1966 – Margaret Grist
A pivotal house, this handsome “I” house style with its Greek Revival front porch was built between 1850-1853, by Rock Hill native, Mr. B. F. Rawlinson, planter, architect
and contractor. He constructed several similar houses away from the corner and across the road. It was in the Grist family for a century after Lewis Grist bought it in 1870. After being out of the Grist family for two decades, the house was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Jackson, Jr. Mrs. (Helen) Jackson is the great-granddaughter of Lewis Grist. John Grist founded the first news publication in York, The Patriot, in 1833, in opposition to the doctrine of nullification. After two other less successful attempts, the newspaper, Yorkville Miscellany, was begun by Grist in 1843. John’s son, Lewis, bought this paper in 1851 and changed the name to Yorkville Enquirer. Lewis’s sons took over the paper in 1891. One of them, Albert, continued with it until his death in 1941.
[Courtesy of the Yorkville Historical Society – 2002]
The Rock Hill Herald reported on May 1, 1901 – “There was a small blaze on the roof of the residence of W.D. Grist in Yorkville, the result from a spark from the chimney.”
Yorkville Enquirer, Wednesday, March 18, 1863: Editorial Items
Capt. L. M. Grist was on wounded furlough and was enrollment officer for Conscripts in Lancaster District. On Friday he was scheduled to be at the Lancaster CH.
He reported that the Army of the Potomac required 50,000 horses and mules, 1,000 die every day, and 5,000 are in horse hospitals around Washington.
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