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A little early history of our neighborhood and Old Buncombe Road, which our shop fronts.

Bainbridge: History traveled many miles along Greenville's Buncombe Road
Judy BainbridgeContributor

In December 1794, the South Carolina General Assembly allocated $2,000 to build a “waggon road over the Western Mountains.”

The following November, a committee of three local legislators, John Ford of Golden Grove, Joshua Saxon of Pendleton, and Elias Earle of Poplar Grove on the Rutherford Road, proposed a route that would extend from Merritt’s mill on the North Saluda River by way of Green River Cove to Buncombe County in North Carolina and beyond to Greeneville, Tennessee.

At about the same time, the Greenville County Courthouse was built near the site of Richard Pearis’ Great Plains Plantation just above the Reedy River, and two years before, landowner Lemuel Alston began dreaming of a subdivision there that he named Pleasantburg.

The road, erected by Earle and his nephew, John William Gowen, crossed Langston Creek, paralleled the course of the Reedy River for about 28 miles, and then turned and twisted into the Saluda Gap on its way to North Carolina. It was finished in 1797. While it soon brought trade to the village, that was certainly not the aim of the legislation.

Its value, as Gov. Arnoldus Vanderhorst made clear, was to “open communications between Charleston and the Inhabitants of the Southwest Territory of the United States.”

That goal was not really accomplished until 1827, when the North Carolina Buncombe Turnpike was completed and connected to both the Greenville Road and to Joel Poinsett’s State Road through Spartanburg District.

Although it was designed for wagons and carriages pulled by two horses, the road’s most frequent early travelers were drovers and their herds of swine, steers, and turkeys.

About every five miles along the route, entrepreneurial hosts set up “stands,” or drovers’ inns, complete with watering troughs and feed for the animals and food and corn liquor for their drivers. Trees where turkeys could perch were always nearby.

Some of these stands were little more than flophouses where several men were stuffed into single beds or slept on the floor. By the early 19th century, others, more inn-like, became stops for stagecoaches and their passengers.

When the animals arrived in Greenville, they usually bedded down at the intersection of Academy and Buncombe streets. A block away, at Laurens Street, the Buncombe Road sharply angled toward the intersection of Main and Coffee streets, where Peter Cauble’s blacksmith shop was located.

After the drovers sold pigs, beef and turkeys to Greenville residents, they and their herds continued down Main Street, forded the shallow Reedy River bottom, and then plodded onward toward Augusta.

By the 1820s, when Robert Mills published the first map of the District, stagecoaches pulled by four horses had regular (if not precisely speedy) schedules along the Buncombe Road. Travelers leaving Greenville at 7:20 a.m. would reach Lima (near the intersection of modern highways 25 and 11) at noon. Three hours later they would arrive at Flat Rock (the way through the mountains was narrow and poorly maintained.)

The atlas shows the first “stage inn” 5 miles north of Greenville at the Rock House. It’s still there, built of granite quarried from Paris Mountain in 1820 by Captain Billy Young, a hero of the American Revolution. Also still standing is the former Anderson House just south of Travelers Rest, the Godwin House at Lima. Others — Merony’s, Edwards, Bradley’s — have vanished.

By 1831, two post offices were sited along the Buncombe Road. One served Travelers Rest, the other, Merrittsville, a thriving little village near Glassy Mountain that now lies under the waters of the Greenville Water System’s North Saluda reservoir.

Although the road was supposedly excellent for about 12 miles above Greenville, maintenance was a problem. The county paid for repair materials from tax monies, but every landowner was responsible for his stretch of the road. An 1858 letter to the Greenville Enterprise complained bitterly that only eight or 10 “hands” were working on four miles of “a road of much more importance than all the other roads in our District.”

Maintenance was especially a problem in marshy places. At the point where Langston Creek flowed across and under the Buncombe Road, a “Long Causeway,” evidently a bridge-like structure just south of Union Bleachery, allowed travelers to traverse the stream, but the land was swampy, and wooden “corduroy” planks were placed so that horses could get through the mush.

At the time of the Civil War, farms and fields bordered the road throughout much of its route. Perry Duncan’s huge (1,700 acres) place about five miles north of the town and the Methodist chapel he and his wife had built near a pleasant spring on the road were famous. Nearby was the Choice family summer home.

On May 1, 1865, when federal troops with orders from General Stoneman to capture Jefferson Davis rode down the Buncombe Road from North Carolina (using Mills’ Atlas maps to guide them), their first reported Greenville encounter was at the Choice home. Its occupant, who may have been drinking heavily, shot at the cavalrymen who confiscated his horse; they killed him. He became Greenville’s only casualty of the raid.

Then the riders headed for town. Sources suggest that they passed earthworks (named Ft. Hatch) dug by Greenville’s Home Guard at the Causeway, prepared to defend the town. The Guardsmen (and boys) evidently had second thoughts about taking on a federal regiment and returned to town.

When Reconstruction Gov. Benjamin Perry decided to build his retirement home, Sans Souci, on rolling land (nearly a thousand acres of it) east of the causeway in the 1870s, he gave the area its name. It was an elegant home for the Unionist lawyer, with room for his 5,000-book library. He lived there until his death in 1886.

In 1902, that same swampy area attracted J.B. Duke and his associates to erect the second bleachery in the South. The reservoir for Union Bleachery (the “lake” that Lakeview Middle School is named for) supplied the bleachery with thousands of gallons of water daily.

By that time, Perry’s mansion had become a girls’ school run by his daughter-in-law, and his son had developed a race track nearby. Beginning in 1905, however, his home became a country club, Greenville’s first, with a nine-whole golf course and tennis courts. Nearly 400 nearby acres were developed for Clarendon Avenue, Sans Souci villas and other subdivisions.

By the 1920s, the Buncombe Road was no longer edged by corn and cotton fields. It had become the main street of a Greenville suburb.

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