The Cross Roads School is a Rosenwald school built just outside of Dixie, Georgia in Brooks County. It was built as a two-teacher plan school in 1927. The school was in use until 1959.
In 2025, the school was listed on the Georgia Trust’s Places in Peril. There is a commitment from the school’s alumni and the local community to restore the schoolhouse into a community center.
Mountain Creek AME Church is located in Sunter County. The main church building was constructed in 1890. The fellowship hall was added in 1990.
This building was on the property. The abandoned piano makes me wonder if it was the old Sunday school. It could have been an old school. I don’t believe it is an old church because tar paper isn’t typically used on churches.
Located on Connecticut Avenue in Spartanburg, South Carolina, this 1913 Craftsman bungalow was home to the Boyd family from 1919 until the 1970s. Mrs. Boyd was known for garden, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if the azaleas were planted by her.
In the 1920s, Greenville decided they were going to demolish the city’s records building, and a local utilities executive, William B. Ellis, supposedly sent employees with a caravan of trucks to gather the stone from the building to build his new home atop a hill overlooking downtown Greenville.
The Ellis family lived in the home until the early 1990s.
The home is currently for sale. The listing can be found here.
This Tudor-inspired house was built in 1928. Walter and Susie Watters were the first family to call this house their home.
Built in 1915, the Cecil House is located in the Hampton Heights neighborhood in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Phillip Cecil was a noted builder in Spartanburg and built many houses and businesses around town.
