Dr2Bee

I am proud to say, I have purchased a home, which I plan to be my primary place of residence in the "Northside" community(originally Spartan Heights prior to the Cleveland family donating the park). I agree with the individual which stated this "Northside" name conjures thoughts it is on the outskirts of town(Granted the city limit is very very close, it is not out in the suburbs by any means). We have Hampton Heights, Converse Heights, South Converse Heights, Duncan Park. Northside doesn't fit the bill for neighborhood names in comparison with the established original neighborhoods. I decided to purchase my home in "Spartan Heights" only after reading of the revitalization and realizing some of the provenance of the area associated with the history of Spartanburg. My new/old home is a Craftsman and it fortunately is still intact. I will be restoring it to it's original state. I am researching the family history of the original builders and am in the process of verifying this was part of Lt. Governor of South Carolina Samuel Farrow's family.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Farrow I read in some earlier posts referring to streets which for whatever purpose were eventually given new/separate names. I agree with the individual that it would be another enhancement to return some of the former names back to the street sections which were changed. I would hope, specifically the section of Chapel Street which was changed at some time to Fremont be reversed back to Chapel St. The Fremont school is on Fremont and it is not conducive to any mapping or traffic patterns. One section is North to South(you have to make a right or left turn onto the next section)the other section is East to West.