Flat Rock & East Flat Rock Community

Enslaved people built much of the original Carl Sandburg Home before the Civil War. https://www.blueridgenow.com/story/news/2021/02/26/highlighting-forgotten-slaves-built-present-day-sandburg-home-staff-uncover-their-stories/6804747002/ ...

There is such a close connection between the early black settlers of Flat Rock and the Mud Creek Missionary Baptist Church ...

From a small acorn a mighty oak can grow.”  With these words, Mrs. Gertrude B. Forney sums up the place ...

Spartanburg Highway to West Blue Ridge at light turn right, cross RR tracks. On the left is Jody Street, B ...

Mud Creek Missionary Baptist Association A fourteen-acre assembly ground with eleven buildings in East Flat Rock provided a training and ...

James Fisher worked at Connemara as a valet and chauffeur for the Smyth family in the early 1900's. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/black-history.htm ...

An extensive new look at the lives of African Americans who worked at Rock Hill/Connemara and the White families who ...