Rock Hill's Athletic Park was a small athletic venue in northern South Carolina; it was never used as a college's home field, but was used for a couple of Clemson games in 1899.

Overall, NC State had a record of 0-1 at this field.

  * Non-conference games

In February 1896, the Rock Hill Athletic Association formed on a property belonging to the Oakland Company with the intention of building a horse track [1]. The Oakland Company was a land acquisition association formed 5 years earlier in an effort to convince Winthrop College to relocate which ultimately proved successful [2] [3]. Though details of the construction are scarce, the Athletic Association was hoping to organize a baseball game and a bicycle race by June 15th, in time for Winthrop's first commencement in its new home [4].

The park continued to host baseball games, horse races, and bicycle races for much of its history. The track was improved in June 1898, and the first known football game on the grounds was held between Clemson and Davidson on October 14th, 1899. Davidson's first game of the season, they lost 0-10 [5] [6]. The park continued to see action largely for regional baseball and smaller football games (primarily featuring either Catawba Male College or the Kings Mountain Military Academy) for almost a decade, until mid-March 1908, when the Rock Hill Baseball Association elected to move the grand stand and fencing to an existing bicycle track off Hampton Street; the work was complete by March 21st [7] [8].

The park continued to see use of dwindling note until a Fourth of July Celebration was held on the grounds in 1913; this event, which was covered fairly widely in the local paper, was free to attend, and featured two baseball games between "picked" local teams, sprints, and a relay race [9]. That was the final event which can definitely be determined to have been held at the "Oakland" Athletic Park -- by the following Fall, the Hampton Street park was also being referred to ambiguously as the old park, making identification of the two parks difficult.

The announcements for the 1913 Fourth of July celebration indicate that the park was located at the intersection of Oakland and York, though it does not say which corner. Unfortunately, this area was only captured in the 1916 fire map, and then in no great detail. In 1907, a large, 7-room cottage on a 100' x 190' lot on both west sides of those corners was sold; a later sale identified this plat of land as lots 13 and 14 on the 1916 Fire Map [10] [11]. Unfortunately, it is not clear whether the park was on the grounds of Plot 18 or Plot 16.