Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-06-17
DEPOSITED IN CORNERSTONE
History Of Town and Directory Of
Firms and Organizations Placed.
FOR: GENERATIONS, OF The FUTURE

Depository of New Municipal Building
Contains Important Papers Which
Will Prove of Interest a Century
Hence-Data Prepared by Member:
of Philanthropic Lodge No. 81 A
r. M.
A history of the town Of Yorkvill;
prepared by Senator John r. Hart and
list Of local business and other or
ganizations prepared by a committee
of local Masons who strived to include
every enterprise were among the docu-
ments deposited in the cornerstone boz
of the new municipal building befor'
it was sealed during the Masonic cor
nerstone ceremonies in Yorkville yes.
ttcrday afternoon. Following was the
history of the town and the directory
dcposited:
History of YorkvilIe.
Prior to the Revolutionary war and
while York county was part or cam
den District, certain wagon roads, one
leading southwark from Kings Noun
1 tain, another running westward tc
Pinckney's Ferry on Broad River. in
terscctcd on the water shed midway
between Broad and Catawba Rivers
Another road branched out from these
| two in the direction Of "Charlottcs-
burg" crossing the Catawba River at
or near the old site Of Wrights Ferry
and the intersection Of these roads
was known as Fergus Cross Roads
York District was cut out from
Camden District in 1855. and Com
mission was appointed to select a site
and build a courthouse at some suit
able point in the new county. This
commission selected as a site for the
courthouse and the future Town OF
York "Fcrgus Cross Roads" This
was in 1886.
The Town was first known as YORK
Vile" Then it was called York. ana
whon if was first incorporated in 1913
it was again changed to {orkville, the
Act saying, "The village commonly
known as York" Chester. Union. sum-
ter and other towns incorporated al
the same time, or nearly the same
time all had the "Ville" attached at
the end of their names, mixture OF
good English with a French word al
the end. Charlotte was Incorporated
as "Charlottesburg.'
incorporates in 1849; -.
The Town of York WAS not lncnr-
nnraied until 1919. w. |. Claws"n was
the first mayor: and tho four wardens
we're Stanhope Sadlcr. L. NJ. Galbraith
r. II. Simril and p. r. Wheeler. The
population of the town is given at that
time as eight hundred.
The Town of York is located on Il
tract of land granted by Letters
Patent to John Miller. from MS
Na iesty's office Of North Carolina,
dated the 25th day of April, 1867. JohH
Miller conveyed to William and John
Fergus; and william and John Fergus
cnnycycd to- William Hill. the Rcv"'
lutionary hero. and it was Colonel Hill
who sold most of the lots in The new
town of York. The following is Il dps-
cription of the tract as conveyed b!
William and John Fergus to William
! Hill:
Original Boundaries.
Berinping ut hickory tree near tht
road from York Vile TO CalcD PoWers
plantation and running \. ~ W: 54'
nnlns. TO a Post Oak at Alexander
| Ramsey's near John tarnasi.ati >
ihcnce \. 4n r. "7O poles To a point ol
tho East of The Wagon road from saa
courthouse, 10 Matthew Dickson $
thence S. IS T.. i6 poles to Il 'lacF
Lack on one side of the glndc; thence
S, 40 =. 30 pclcs to the beginning IN
Guiding York Vile.
Ev the census, York's greatest pros
nc,itv was during the period from 1851
To- 1881. The census Of 1920 gives th'
population Of the tnwn as twenty
seven hundred and thrty-one inhabl'
tHntS.
"rrhr Town owns its own water WORKS
system. electric light plant, ANA hil'
about two miles Of paved streets ih'
Iahout six miles of paved side WalhS'
New City Hal Made Possible.
For years municipal quarters I'll th'
tuwn have been not only an eye sore u
citizens generally but very inconFeh'
lent and entirely too small for the ac
cnmmodation of people generally. ~
Until the year 1921 did the posslbiih.
uf n new municipal building to tak'
thc p,acc Of the present structure
which was originally II barn. appear
Major W. f.. Moore proposed to loaI
ibc town tho money with which u
build a suitable structure under an ar
ranc1mcnt whereby he might be REIN
burscd through the Building II Loal
pIan, on March 1G, 1921, the t"wi
council accepted his proposition. Con
tract fur the erection Of the h'llIdih'
was awarded the lowest bidder, Mr."
/ +. Wallace for $lS.Gj6.30 and on Ma,
II. 1921 construction work was begun
Tho building under way which Will IN
Glide quarters fnr all town Official
land also a large auditorium is expect
cd to be completed before the end o
the present year.
State and County Officers.
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