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f^tate.s had to i)ass this way. Many were the great men of 

 that day going- to tlieir duties at onr seat of Goyernnient, 

 viewed oiir scenery, etc., as they i)assed ah»ng. P^ven the im- 

 mortal Wasliington honored onr Parisli by passing through 

 it on his tour, 1791). What we now know as the George- 

 town Road was tlie main artery. Lumbering four-horse 

 stages Ayent along to and fro daily, carrying passengers and 

 connecting at Georgetown with others bound further 

 North. 



These stages at first, travelled at night, leaving Charles- 

 ton in afternoon and getting to 32 Mile House for supper, 

 then on, but in later days a day stage was started by Mr. 

 INIatthews, called an accommodation line. These stages were 

 broken up when the N. E. R. R. was built. 



All along the road from Charleston to Georgetown houses 

 were built and kept for accommodation of passsengers atid 

 for furnishing relay of horses. The first at ten mile, called 

 in my day ''Mulatto Town," one at the 15 mlile, one at llie 

 21, one at 32, and one at Lynch's, uoav Mazyck's Ferry. All 

 along the road between each house large wells were dng, 

 beside the road, for the purpose of watering the horses. Of 

 all these houses the 32 was the most famous. It is put down 

 on early maps as "Jones's Inn," but in my early da.s.s we 

 called it the Tavern, its collection of houses and long sta- 

 bles would have put 3'ou in mind of description of the old 

 English taverns. It saw service for long series of y^-ars 

 and was kept by many different proprietors, visited by 

 crowds of people, distinguished and otherwise, and if it 

 could have spoken would, no doubt, have told many strange 

 :iud interesting stories of the old time men and women wh(i 

 met and conversed in its tow-ceiled parlors, or of those who 

 ■net there and passed in the night. I have had an old huly 

 to tell me that as the stage got to Nazareth Church, ihe 

 driver would blow liis horn and give a turn for eaca i)as- 

 senger, so that the pro]>rietor of the Inn could know how 

 many to prepare supper for. The ferry from Charleston 

 (her. was above the present Mt. Pleasant. At what was one 

 time called Hibbens and Clement ferries, and before steam 

 was used, the boat was propelled by paddle wheels turned 



