The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1871-09-06

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clerk of the court, and lived where
Beattie's store honse now stands.
Mr.. Goodlett lived in the old
house now occupied by Wilson
Cook as a shop, and which he af-
terwards sold to Captain Cleve
land. Marshal Ayers lived where
Snllivans store is. Captain Gum
had sold the lot now owned by
Col. Hokes estate to man by the
name of Stringer, who afterwards
sold to Mrs. Wickliffe, the mother
of Captain William Wickliffs, and
she kept a hotel there for a mum.
ber OF years. Col. -Lemuel j. All.
ston lived on tho hill at tho head
OF Avenue street, in the house now
owned by Captain Westfield.-
Col. Robert Anderson, for many
years cleik Of the House of Repre-.
sentatives Of South Carolina lived in a
l'g house where Ferguson & Miller now
reside, next to the old Court House,
Chancellor Thompson lived on the bill
where Teuch Cox resides. and b al sold
his farm, now owned by Col. Irvine, TO
Col. William Toney. Some one lived
on The Corner Of the Mansion House
,ot. Such was the city Of Greenville
in the childhood of Samuel Murphy,
after more than twenty years growth
Capt. Cleveland moved here about this
time snd opened store in partnership
with Irvine & Patton. Mlrphy says tue
first calico dresses b e ever saw were pur.
chased by his mother and aunt of Cap.
tain Cleveland. In those dave the
wives and daughters Of the most res
pectable citizens dressed in homespun
Of their own manufacture.
In looking over the records of
the circuit court in 1893, saw the
presentment of the Grand Jury,
drawn by the Hon. Lcmuel j. All.
ston, foreman. In this present.
mentit is stated that in 1856, there
were only forty families i'm the Dis.
tricts of Pendleton and Greenville,
and that then (17a3) the census
showed population Of twenty
thousand. This was a wonderful
increase in the course of seven
years. In tho same paper it is
stated that only twenty families
lived in Pendleton in 1856, and in
1903 the population uf the District
was thirteen thousand.
1t is remarkable that all the
prominent men mentioned were
settlers in the country, aud none
of them in the village. Every one
came into the District to get lands,
clear EN- and cultivate them
Few indeed thought of selling
goods or keeping stores. Perhaps
the first store in Grecnville Dis
trict, was that of Nathaniel and
Benjamin Perry. located eight
miles above the Court House, in
1885. McBeth at later period
had store on the Pendleton road
four miles from the county seat,
where there was q pair of race
paths, and q good deal of sport
carried or. am not aware that
there was any store in the village,
if village it could be called, for
several years after the establish
ment of the county seat. But as
the settlers began to make money,
they began to want some of the
luxuries Of civilization. At an ear.
ly period in the history of our city,
Captain Cleveland, Col. Touey
and MIR. Goodlett, were merchand.
ising in it, and the two fret named
gentlemen made fortunes by their
stores. They both moved here
from North Carolina, from whence
most of the present citizens have
since como. The little house On
Main street in front OF the Mansion
House, was built by David Good.
lett, and afterwards purchased by
Captain Jeremiah Cleveland. For
many years he resided in it with
his family and kept a hotel. He
had visitors staying with him in
the summer season from the lower
part of the State aud from Georgia.
There was q house OH the opposite
side OF the street in which most of
his boarders lodged. No one would
ever suspect this house, now oc.
cupied by Wilson Cook, as shop.
as having been once "the Hotel"
of Greenville and the mansion of
the wealthiest citizen. The eons
trast between this ancient village
hotel and the ralatial Mansion
House standing opposite each 9th.
ers, is very striking, and marks
the progress Of our city. This
humble building is the only one
left standing which was erected in
the past century. ~
The Greenville academies were
built in 1920, and this bad a very
salutary influence on the prosper.
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