Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-07-01
ems county with the county seat at
the present Pickens Court House.

ems county with the county seat al
the present sPickens Court House.
/ The members of the convention
from the Oconee county section had
the boundary lines SO arranged as tc
retain Cslhoun's old home within
their territory, and yet named their
new county, not after the famous
statesman, but after a small tribe OF
! Cherokee Indians.
| AS there are sermons in stone
and "books in brooks" so there are
histories in names. iis
Pendleton was named in honor oil
Henry Pendleton, who was born in
Culpepper county, Virginia, in 1850,
and died in Greenville District,
South Carolina, January 10th, 1859.
He was educated in Virginia He
and his brother Nathaniel joined the
laCulpepper Minute Men," the first
patriotic regiment that was organ
lied in the South. Both served in
our State. Henry Pendleton was
captured at the taking of Charles
ton. Having learned of plot of
a party of Tories to take him from
his quarters at night and hang him
at the town gate, he counterfeited
the signature of British officer to a
pass, and by its use escaped. Corn
wallis wrote Moultrie concerning the
matter and demanded PeDdleton's
return. The answer of the hero of
the Palmetto log fort was character
istic--he was concerned with no.
body's passports but his own.
After the war Pendleton settled
in South Carolina and was elected
Judge. He was the author of the
County Court Act, passed March
18th, 1885, and was one of the three
Judges appointed that year to revise
the laws of the State. He was one
of the trustees of the short-lived
College of Cambridge, at Ninety
Six. Judge Pendleton was mem.
ber of the Constitutional Conyen-
tion of 1883. He died at thirty
nine--seven months and twenty days
after his adopted State had ratified
the Federal three
months and twenty days before
Washington, the illustrious "Cincin-
natus of the West," took, for the
first time, the oath of office as Presi-
dent of the new United States of
America.
Suffer your speaker to read you
a page from an old book, rare and
valuable, which contains an article
on Pendleton District:
"The court house is located in the vii
lage of Pendleton, which, from this cir
trict town. 1t Is pleasantly situated near
the waters Of Eighteen Mile creek, a con-
siderable branch of the Seneca river,
which empties into the Savannah; and
contains, besides a court house, "a new
court house on an elegant and spacious
plan will soon be erected here, an appro-
priation being made for this purpose by
and Episcopal church,- forty houses, sew
eral of them neat, an academy, printing
offioo Gssuing weekly paper),N and an
agricultural hall for the meeting of q
society of this nature. There is every
prospect of the village increasing in pop
ulation. A very select society is found
here and in the neighborhood, where
eOm0 SouCioIll0n VI lOIIuu0 anu ulRu T6-
spectability, from the low country, have
located themselves and families. A beau
tiful view of the mountains is obtained
from the village. These bound the hori-
zon to the north. Among tho breaks OF
these colossal mounds is discovered the
entrance into the interesting valley of
Jocassee, celebrated in song; and off in
the distance the eye rests on that splendid
mass of perpendicular rock (the admira-
tion of travelers), the Table Mountain,
backed by the most elevated grounds in
tho State, the Sassafras Mountain.
Several settlements, as villages, are
established in various places in the dis
trict. The Oldest of these is Pickens-
vile, formerly the seat of Justice, but
now reduced to three or four houses. II
is situate seven or eight miles west of the
Saluda river. The 17th regiment muster
ground is located here.
Crook Mills village lies on Generosittee
river, q water of Savannah. Here is the
largest merchants mill i'm the district,
belonging to Maverick & Lewis; also a
saw mill, spindle factory and distilleries,
besides several wag0n-makers, shoe
makers, etc.
'Centreville was established by f.
Earle, ESQ.,, principally for manufactur-
ing purposes.
IA town was laid out by Gen. Ander.
son, on the Tugaloo or Savannah
river, at the junction of the Seneca
called Andersonville. 1t liz situate at the
very point of a peninsula, and is most
romantic spot. The project of making ii
| q commercial town failed. In this place
two mills and forge, etc., were built
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