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Source:  64th NC Regiment and Woodfield Inn, Flat Rock. Photo by Rusty Long

  • Monument Name

    64th NC Regiment and Woodfield Inn, Flat Rock

  • Type

    Marker

  • Subjects

    Local History

    Civil War, 1861-1865

  • City

    Flat Rock

  • County

    Henderson

  • Description

    The memorial site has two large irregular shaped boulders standing roughly five feet tall. The stone on the left holds a bronze tablet commemorating Company E, 64th NC Regiment. The simple tablet contains an inscription with an unfurled Confederate battle flag above. The stone to the left holds a tablet for the Woodfield Inn, a famous resort for wealthy low country South Carolina plantation and business owners prior to the Civil War.

    Images: Memorial site | Company E boulder | Company E tablet | Woodfield Inn boulder | Woodfield Inn tablet

  • Inscription

    Company E tablet: TROOPS OF COMPANY E. / 64TH REGIMENT C.S.A. / COMMANDED BY / CAPTAIN B.T. MORRIS / STATIONED HERE / ON GUARD DUTY / FOR SIX MONTHS / IN 1864

    Woodfield Inn: FARMER HOTEL / NOW / WOODFIELD INN / BUILT IN 1852 / FAMOUS RESORT FOR VISITORS / FROM THE LOW COUNTRY / ON THEIR ANNUAL SUMMER TRIPS / TO THE / LITTLE CHARLESTON / OF THE MOUNTAINS / AT / FLAT ROCK / WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA / HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

  • Custodian

    Hasan Mansouri, current inn own

  • Dedication Date

    64th NC marker: October 24, 1959 Woodfield Inn: August 21, 1955

  • Decade

    1950s

  • Geographic Coordinates

    35.265960 , -82.441450 View in Geobrowsemap pin

  • Supporting Sources

      Conway, Bob. “WNC Historians and UDC Honor N.C. Confederates,” Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC), October 25, 1959

      Kelley, Leigh. “Woodfield Inn Gets New Owner,” Times-News (Hendersonville, NC), May 15, 2009, (accessed July 15, 2020) Link

      “Front View, Woodfield Inn, Flat Rock, Henderson County, NC,” Preservation North Carolina Historic Architecture Slide Collection, 1965-2005 (PNC slides) Preservation North Carolina Link

      “Unveiling of Historical Flat Rock Inn Marker Set” Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC), August 7, 1955

  • Public Site

    Yes

  • Materials & Techniques

    Granite boulders, bronze tablets

  • Sponsors

    64th NC marker: Western NC Historical Association and Margaret Davis Hayes Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy <br> Woodfield Inn marker: Western NC Historical Association

  • Monument Dedication and Unveiling

    Dr. CC Crittenden, director of the NC Department of Archives and History was the key note speaker for both dedications.

  • Nickname

    The Woodfield Inn is now called the Mansouri Mansion.

  • Subject Notes

    Built in 1850 as the Farmer Hotel, the roadside inn was financed by 10 summer residents who put up $1,000 each, according to a history synopsis on the village of Flat Rock website. During the Civil War, coastal South Carolinians found a haven at the inn and for a time a company of soldiers remained on the grounds for the safety of the people in residence, the account said. The inn now mostly functions as a private residence.

  • Location

    Markers are located by the Mansouri Mansion, 2905 Greenville Highway Flat Rock NC 28731.

  • Landscape

    Memorial markers stand on well-maintained grounds of the Inn with historic buildings and shady trees serving as their picturesque background.

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