About Dunroy -
   Dunroy on Rutledge is a unique 115 acre residential community located in the northern edge of historic Flat Rock, North Carolina. Our community combines custom homes on one acre lots with clustering of carefree single-family manor homes. There are three manor home sections - meadow, forest, and mountain - which suround the acre lot homes. Clustering allows setting aside 57 unspoiled acres preserved as common area including a walking trail and park-like expanses for all residents to enjoy.

The Master Plan for Dunroy appears below.

        Click here for satellite image of Dunroy on Rutledge. (Here for terrain map)
 
The original estate home has a rich history dating back to the 1850's. The "Dunroy" was built in 1862 and sat high on a hill looking over Sugar Loaf, Bird Wing and Bear Wallow Mountains. It was surrounded by acres of sloping lawns (which were once part of a golf course), towering evergreens, a garden and trimmed English boxwoods. Its 115 acres were largely wooded and lay adjacent to the "Mountain Lodge" property. It was first settled by David Rogerson Williams II, a cotton planter from Society Hill in Darlington county, South Carolina.
   The next two owners were Mrs. James Rutledge and her daughter, Mrs. Julius Heyward, descendents of one of Charleston's signers of the Declaration of Independence. In 1933, Major General Campbell King, of Scottish descent, grandson of Judge Mitchell King of Argyle, acquired the estate. He was an associate of General George Marshall, United States Chief of Staff, who was often a guest at "Dunroy". The name Dunroy comes from the Gaelic wording of "Dun" meaning castle and "Roy" meaning Kings, hence the Castle of Kings. General King's three grandchildren were the last of the King family to own Dunroy before the development of "Dunroy on Rutledge" began in 2000.
    Part of the early rich history of Dunroy was discovered (and submitted by Glenn Rodgers) from a publication of the South Carolina Historical Society with reference to an early painting depicting a "Costume Party at Flat rock". An explanation of the painting complete with a listing of the people in the painting can be viewed by clicking "here".
If you want your own copy of the Carologue Magazine featuring the 1866 costume party in Flat RockBack, issues can be obtained by calling the South Carolina Historical Society at (843) 723-3225, ext. 11 and requesting the Fall, 2001 issue with the cover article "So Far Away and So Faint": A Costume Ball at Flat Rock by Henry Burke and Elise Pinckney. As of this date they have about ten copies left, which are $7.50 for members or $10.00 for non-members including shipping. They take credit cards.