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Rock Hill SC Real Estate offers a broad array of choices for any lifestyle. A city of contrasts, from the soft, floral beauty of Glencairn Garden to the striking entrance to the business industrial complex of TechPark, from the historic charm of Winthrop University to the state-of-the-art medical facilities, newcomers to the Rock Hill area find it is a great place to live. Housing in all ranges of price, style and location abound.
Located on I-77, Rock Hill is a unique blend of Southern culture and tradition --- a city at its best, close knit, caring, yet progressive, with a practical eye to the future, providing a safe, hometown atmosphere with easy access to big-city benefits. Rock Hill is the largest city in York County, South Carolina. The population was 49,765 at the 2000 census. According to 2005 estimates, the city has a population of 59,554, making it the fourth largest city in South Carolina.
Rock Hill is home to three institutions of higher education:
Winthrop University was founded in 1886 in Columbia, South Carolina. It moved to its permanent Rock Hill home in 1895, growing from a single classroom to a comprehensive learning university of distinction. The university is home to over 6,000 students. York Technical College opened in 1964 and has grown in the past four decades to over 4,000 credit students in more than 70 credit programs. Clinton Junior College is an institution of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, founded in 1894 as the Clinton Institute. The college presently serves as a liberal arts junior college whose major goal is to prepare students to successfully complete a college major at a four-year institution.
Rock Hill dates its history to April 17,1852, the day the Rock Hill Post Office opened, even though the town was not officially incorporated until 1870. The symbols of the city are the four "Civitas" statues on Dave Lyle Boulevard. Each of them hold discs that symbolize the four different industries in the city. Rock Hill was the setting for two significant events in the American civil rights movement. In February 1961, nine African-American men went to jail at the York County prison farm after staging a sit-in at the segregated McCrory's lunch counter. The event gained nationwide attention because the men followed an untried strategy called "jail, no bail," which lessened the huge financial burden civil rights groups were facing as the sit-in movement spread across the South. They became known as the Friendship Nine because eight of the nine men were students at Rock Hill's Friendship Junior College. Rock Hill was the first stop in the Deep South for a group of 13 Freedom Riders who boarded buses in Washington, D.C., and headed South to test the 1960 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court outlawing racial segregation in all interstate public facilities.
The real estate market in this suburban Southern city is beginning to boom again. New communities that include single family housing and multi-family housing choices are popping up across the city and are a complement the quaint historical neighborhoods. In July 2008 there were 99 home sales reported to the MLS, ranging from $25,800 to $1,525,000. The median home price during the period was $138,000.
Gary Nagle is an experienced real estate professional with solid knowledge and experience in Rock Hill. For High Definition Service in the Rock Hill SC Real Estate market, contact Gary at 803-493-2470.
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