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City Directories and History: “This house, a weather boarded log structure, dated from the early years of the nineteenth century and stood on the western side of
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Watson‘s Branch and faced the stream. In the twentieth century the Harris Manufacturing Company was built nearby. The site was sold later to the Rock Hill Body Company. After WWI the Black homestead was moved several hundred feet to the west, coming to rest on the western side of what is called today Lee Street. Todd Lumber Company eventually occupied the land just north of the Black house, which was torn down in the spring of 1964. From the photograph found in the Evening Herald, April 2, 1964.” (Courtesy of Along the Land’s Ford Road, Vol. I, p. 119 by Wm. B. White, Jr.)
The Herald reported on Oct. 15, 1902 – “On the death of Isabella White, the widow of the late William White of Spartanburg. She was the daughter of Alexander T. Black and was born in a house that still stands at the rear and not far from the home of Mr. F.W. Hall. This is the old home of the Black Family, who were then the owners of much of the land which is now the City of Rock Hill. Mrs. White returned to Rock Hill upon the death of her husband.”
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