Rosedale”.  The strip of the old pioneer road paralleling US 19 to its north and touching the mansion to its north is named “Old Rosedale Lane” today.

Excerpt From the 1935 United States Geologic Survey Topographic Map of Elk Garden Showing ‘Old Rosedale’.  West Rosedale is to the North of the Pioneer Era Version of US 19 In the Upper Right

             Early in the twentieth century the sons of William Alexander Stuart, Dale and Henry Carter, decided to build individual mansions on the hill north what was to become US 19 on the settlement right and preemption right of Richard Price, Sr. 

            Various dates can be found in the literature, but recent research has shown that Dale built East Rosedale first.   Borrowing the name from the Price Mansion, Dale called his mansion “Rosedale”, a name used in both North Carolina and in Louisiana for famous plantations.  The name appears publically in reference to the Price Mansion for the first time in the 1860 census, but private letters of Dr. John Taylor Smith use this name as early as 1841.   

            The last known occupant of Old Rosedale was Dr. Taylor Garrett Smith, the son of John Henry Anderson Smith, who was the son of Dr. John Taylor Smith, who built Smithfield.  Old Rosedale was torn down not long after it was shown in the 1935 map above.  Today, West Rosedale is sometimes confused with Old Rosedale.

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