Located on 101 Alice Avenue, the Alston/Honour house is traditionally thought to have once been the summer home of South Carolina governor Joseph Alston and wife Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of Aaron Burr. About 1810, the Alstons bought 238 acres in Greenville County on which they built a home. Theodosia had the priviledge of living in the house for only a short while, having been lost at sea after she sailed from Charleston on December 30, 1812. Shortly after her death, Joseph Alston died without an heir and the property reverted to his siblings. Before 1850, the house burned to the ground and in the Spring of 1854 the William Alston family built another home on this same site, the home that is currently on the property. This home was occupied by various members of the Alston family until after the Civil War when it was sold to Theodore and Rebecca Honour, whose residence it remained for some 40 years.

Directions:
Depart from Heritage Green Place. Turn left onto Buncombe Street. Proceed to Academy Street (Hwy 123) and turn right. From Academy Street, turn right on Pendleton St. Go to the 2nd traffic light and turn right onto Woodside Avenue (Bolt Drugstore will be on the corner). Go under a railroad underpass and take the 1st street on the left (Pendleton Rd). Go across a concrete bridge over railroad tracks. Turn right onto the 1st street after the bridge (Spruce St). Take the 1st left onto Oak Street. Take the 1st right onto Alice Ave. The house is a large two-story home on left.

Enterprise and Mountaineer. 29 June, 1881.

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