ROCK

See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

HILL  , a city of York county, South Carolina, U.S.A., 84 m. by rail N. of Columbia . Pop . (189o) 2744; (1900) 5485 (1706 negroes); (191o) 7216 . Rock Hill is served by two lines of the Southern railway . It lies at an elevation of about 67o ft. above the sea . Among its buildings and institutions are the Federal Government Building, the City Flail, the Carnegie Library and the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College (chartered in 1891 and opened in 1894), a state institution for white girls . Cotton is the most important product of the surrounding country . The Catawba river, 5 M. distant, furnishes good water-power, and in a large power-plant electricity is generated for the city's manufactories . Among the manufactures are cotton goods, cotton-seed oil, yarn, wagons and carriages, foundry and machine-shop products; and there are cotton gins, marble and stone works . The growth of the city has been almost entirely since the Civil War . Rock Hill was incorporated As a village in 1870, and was chartered as a city in 1892 .