City Directories and History: This map is listed as the East Catawba River (Indian Land) Map. This map provides a searchable index of the names specific to this particular map. Search further under the enlargeable PDF, this page. Other Heritage Plat Maps by Mayhugh may offer similar information but under a different title.
Alex Fewell |
Allen Richardson |
Andrew Shillinglaw |
B.S. Massey |
Benjamin D. Sturgis |
Benjamin Dunlap |
Caney Branch |
Daniel Tharp |
David Rice |
David S. Patton |
Elizabeth Cathcart |
Four Mile Creek |
Horseford Branch |
James Burnett |
James Burns |
Jesse Brumfield |
John Massey |
John Massey’s House |
John Richardson |
John S. Sitgreaves |
John Scott |
Joseph Hagins |
Massey’s Ferry |
McClenahan’s Ferry Road |
Morrison’s Creek |
North Fork Mill |
Saw Mill Road |
Six Mile Creek |
Ten Mile Creek |
Tharp’s Island |
Thomas Robison or Robinson |
W. B. Dunlap’s House |
William Moffat |
William Todd |
RAILROADS COME TO YORK COUNTY – Several additional facts about the rail line from Columbia to Rock Hill may be of interest to the reader. First, the men from York District who attended the convention concerning the building of a railroad from Charlotte to Columbia were Colonel W. C. Beatty, William A. Latta, John Miller Ross, Robert Gadsden McCaw, William Moore, W. Giles, J. Beatty Smith, and Joel W. Rawlinson. This initial meeting of interested parties was held at Winnsboro on May 24 and 25, 1847.
Subscribers for stock in the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad Company on September 9 and 10, 1847, were these: Colonel W. C. Beatty, John Miller Ross, Colonel William Wright, John S. Moore, W. I. Clawson, William A. Latta, George W. Williams, Colonel Edward Avery, Harvey Hugh Drennan, Rev. Archibald Whyte, Thomas D. Spratt, James D. Spratt, A. M. White, George P. White, William E. White, and Captain John Massey.
(Along the Landsford Road, by Wm. B. White, Jr. Vol., I – 2008)
*** Note the property of John Massey bordered the Catawba River at a section commonly referred to as Riverbend. John Massey, Capt., was also a regular at the Fewell’s Store, which was originally at Lesslie as well as later in the Ebenezer Township.
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