History & local legend
Stone Church Road near Finleyville is the setting of a driver's account of a black horse that vanished beside a moving car. The witness, who signed the story A. P., was driving home in a Chevy Nova late in 1985. A full moon lit the pasture opposite James Chapel Methodist Church.
A black horse began running alongside the car, keeping pace at about thirty miles an hour. As the road bent toward Finleyville, A. P. slowed almost to a stop and looked back. The horse should still have been visible in the open field, before it could reach the trees, but the pasture was empty.
Years later, A. P. described the encounter to an older friend. The friend said a horse had made the same run alongside a car twelve years before A. P.'s experience.
