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LIGHTS OUT IN ROCK HILL – Part 2 of 2
The Rock Hill Presbyterian Church is doomed. The wrecking ball looms, not more than a month away. A valiant effort by local residents produced a chance for salvation, but that chance is going the way of the church itself. The Presbyterian Church sold the church and its property to “U Gas,” a Fenton-based petroleum marketer. [...]
A JEWEL IN ROCK HILL – Part 1 of 2
James Collier Marshall was born on the eastern shore of Maryland in 1804, among the estuaries of the Atlantic and along a creek named for his family. His birth occurred in the third year of the incumbency of Chief Justice John Marshall, his third cousin (twice removed). Their common ancestor settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia, [...]
The Castle on Meridian Hill
Near Meridian Hill Park in Washington, DC, at Florida Avenue and 16th Street, stands a stone gate, a remnant of a structure razed in 1949. It is a reminder of the time when this neighborhood was Washington’s Embassy Row, a brainchild of Washingto
