[mstar]

"Other places in Chesterfield County include the monument marking the first secession meeting on the grounds of the Old Courthouse on Main Street. The Robert Mills Courthouse on this site was burned by the Union Army. Next door is the John Craig House, c. 1798, Sherman's personal headquarters. The Austin-Craig House, C. 1858, already put to the torch, was saved when a slave reported that it belonged to a Yankee. Fire marks are visible in this, one of the rare homes in Chesterfield to escape destruction. Nearby Mt. Croghan was almost completely destroyed, never to really fully recover. © Sarah Spruill The Cheraw Visitors Bureau 5/2000)"

My family was from Mt. Croghan, and yes burned out, then left to starve. The scars on the land are still very much visible.

[rockrr]

After 145 years the only scars that would still be there would be the ones that are carefully cultivated.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

It’s funny, though, that while you say the town was never to recover after Sherman passed through, the official Mt Croghan website says that the town was thriving after the Civil War, that it was, around 1900, a “growing farm town with eight to ten stores,” rail connections (built in the early 1900s) and so on. It was doing so well that they got around to actually chartering the town in 1911. It was the Great Depression, which wiped out the local bank, combined with a fire in 1931 that really killed the town. According to their website again, “After burning down this time, the town never again regained its former prestige.”