Nation Ford Land Trust, preservation of open spaces, land conservation, water conservation, York County, South Carolina

Nation Ford Land Trust
Properties/Easements

Properties Owned

(15.22 acres) (Tax Map # 154 00 00 008) Near Hwy 5, Broad River Township, York (Acquired 12/30/94)
Bailiwyck Property (45.434 acres) (Tax Map # 720 00 00 018) Between I-77 and Pleasant Road, Fort Mill (Acquired 10/97)
Gainey Road Property/Civil War Battery Site (0.3 acres) (A portion of Tax Map # 702 00 00 004) Off Red River Road, Rock Hill (Acquired 2/99)

Total Acreage Owned: 62.954

Conservation Easements

(100-foot wide easement along 3600 feet of the Catawba River – about 8.25 acres) – 1995
Banks Road Sunflower Site (11.26 acres off Banks Road) – 1996
(12 acres located just south of Fort Mill Ford on Vista Road) – 1996
1000-foot wide easement along 3633 feet of the Catawba River and along 922 feet of Sugar Creek –
(350-foot wide easement along 2300 feet of the Catawba River – about 18.5 acres) -- 9/00
(300-foot wide buffer along 3275 feet of the Catawba River – about 23.227 acres off Mt. Gallant Road, Rock Hill) – 12/00
(309 acres south of Rock Hill) – 7/01
(1647 acres on the Broad River near Hickory Grove) – 7/01. (Renamed Worth Mountain Property - 9/03)
Ferguson Mountain (115.312 acres between Hwy 49 and Hwy 274 near Clover) – 7/01. (Commonly referred to as “Nanny’s Mountain.”)
McCelvey Center Façade Preservation and Maintenance Easement (front façade of McCelvey Center )
Brattonsville Sunflower Site (8.925 acres inside the protected Brattonsville Area south of Rock Hill) – 8/02
Huntington Farms Property (115 acres along 8700 feet of Sugar Creek in Fort Mill) – 12/02
Confederate Park (0.3 acres located in downtown Fort Mill) – 9/03
(additional 29 interior acres added to the first easement located off Mt. Gallant Road in Rock Hill) – (addendum to first easement) - 12/03

Total Acreage in Easements: 2351.964

Other Property Transactions

Leased Sunset Island from Duke Power in 1993 for 15 years. 8 acres just north of Tega Cay in Lake Wylie (actually in North Carolina).
Draper/Brattonsville Property – 1283 acres (of which 8.925 is the sunflower site) involving 2 parcels -- NFLT sold part to the county and part to the state in 1996.
Kings Mountain Property – 300 acres -- NFLT purchased and then donated to the SCPRT.
Green Earth Property – 296 acres -- NFLT sold to the Catawba Indian Nation in Dec. 1998.

Total Other Property Transactions: 1895 less 8.925 acres for sunflowers = 1886.075

Total acres NFLT has been involved with: 4300.993 (10/03)

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