The legal deeds of Chick Springs
This glory days of Chick Springs and its hotels have been told many times and better than I can do anyway. But where do they get their information? One source (and a good one) is Greenville County's Register of Deeds pre-1990 digital archive . While deeds are often an uninteresting, dry read, they can also provide useful bits of trivia about historical places like Chick Springs. I've found and listed as many of the Chick Springs hotel-related deeds that my search skills could find. 1834: Book R, page 266 : Burwell Chick buys property in the area that will become known as Chick Springs. 1851: Book W, pages 455 and 456 : Burwell Chick dies in 1847. Burwell's sons, Pettis and Reuben Chick, buy Chick Springs for $3000 in accordance with their father's will . 1857: Book Y, pages 173 and 174 : Pettis and Reuben Chick sell Chick Springs to Franklin Talbird of Beaufort and John Henry of Charleston for $15,000. 1867: Book AA, pages 686-687 and 688 : The Chick br...