Backroad Beside Kings Mountain Battlefield
Blacksburg, SC
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Free; public roadway.
Access
Limited Access
Rural paved road through wooded ridge country adjacent to Kings Mountain National Military Park
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1800 · Kings Mountain Battlefield Adjacent · Cherokee County Vernacular Architecture
Rock House Road is a rural backroad in Cherokee County, South Carolina, near the town of Blacksburg and adjacent to Kings Mountain National Military Park. The park preserves the site of the October 7, 1780, Battle of Kings Mountain, a decisive Patriot victory in the Southern campaign of the Revolutionary War. The federal park is administered by the National Park Service and is freely open to visitors year round.
The road takes its name from a stone house built in the early 1800s. According to South Carolina paranormal investigation reporting, the house remains standing on private land and is opened to the public only one day per year. No National Register of Historic Places listing under the name Rock House has been located for this specific structure in Cherokee County in standard searches; the site's exact history is therefore presented here as folklore-adjacent local tradition.
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Local Cherokee County tradition holds that a family living in the Rock House Road stone house in the early or mid-nineteenth century had a daughter the family considered an embarrassment because of an undisclosed disability. According to the tradition, she was confined to the cellar during the day and allowed to walk outside at night carrying a candle. On one such walk her candle reportedly blew out, she was unable to find her way home, and she died.
The local retelling holds that residents along the road can hold a lit candle to a window and see the daughter's face appear in the glass. South Carolina Supernatural Investigations published an investigation report in 2014 concluding that, after on-site work, the location showed no evidence of paranormal activity, and the investigators closed the case as unhaunted.
The Hauntbound listing retains the tradition as cultural folklore associated with the road rather than as a documented paranormal site, with the SCSI report noted as the available investigative finding.
A short rural drive along the western edge of Kings Mountain National Military Park. The stone house that gives the road its name is on private land and is not accessible to the general public except during a single annual open-house day. South Carolina Supernatural Investigations published a 2014 investigation that concluded the site showed no evidence of paranormal activity.
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