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Sign at historic Woodfield Inn draped with Confederate flag

The wooden sign at the historic Woodfield Inn property was draped with a Confederate flag and American flag on Thursday.

By Bill Moss, Published: July 17, 2025

FLAT ROCK — Covered for several years by a tarp, the sign on Greenville Highway in front of the historic Woodfield Inn on Thursday afternoon was draped on one side with a Confederate flag and on the other by an American flag. 

It's unclear why. A Lightning reporter who drove to the site to check encountered a man picking up sticks in the driveway and asked him whether the sign was for an event. "Why, does it bother you?" the man responded. "There is no event."

The man seized the opportunity to criticize the Lightning's story in March of 2020 about the real estate holdings of his father, Hasan Mansouri, who had died on Feb. 7 that year. Mansouri had two sons, Werner, of Myrtle Beach, and Karim, who according to his Facebook page manages a country club in Bahrain.

The man in the driveway of the property refused to answer any questions about the flags, which were firmly strapped onto the sign's structure. He then ordered the reporter off the property and threatened to bring a charge of trespassing. 

Henderson County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Stephanie Barbosa said on Friday evening she had not heard anything about the flags.

Hasan Mansouri formed Mansouri LLC in 2009, according to N.C. secretary of state records, and bought the historic Woodfield Inn the same year, renaming it Mansouri Mansion. The following year he bought the group of apartments across Greenville Highway. In 2020, the Woodfield Inn and surrounding 24 acres were valued on the tax books at $2,234,500, with the 14,828-square-foot inn valued at $1.4 million. Current tax records currently list 26 parcels of real property as owned by Hasan Mansouri or Mansouri LLC.