Description
Beautiful quiet estate living. Each home is located on a minimum of 2.5 acres. Super location, convenient to shopping and schools. 5 minutes from I-26 interstate.
Smith's Tavern Country Estates gets its name from the house at the entrance of the development. Captain William James Smith, a revolutionary army officer from Pennsylvania, built the home in 1790. It served as a stagecoach stops that offered room and board and was referred to as "Smith's Tavern". It overlooks tow 18th century roads. One of these roads is Blackstock Road, now known as Hwy. 215, was a primary route to drive cattle from Columbia, SC to Asheville, NC hence its name. The other road intersected Blackstock Road is now known as McAbee and Otts Shoals Roads. The southernmost road, Otts Shoals, leads to the historic plantation of Walnut Grove, site of a revolutionary skirmish. The land around the "Smith's Tavern" house was bought in 1970 by the Crescent Company, and it was divided into lots and the lots were sold. The "Smith's Tavern” house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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