Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-07-01
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1.-The War Of the Revolution broke
Tout. The Cherokees sided with the
English. While Parker and Clinton
were to attack Charleston the Chero.
KEGS were to lay waste the bach
country settlements. Britaiu's plans
were well laid. But Moultrie and
his men on the sands of Sulliyan's
Island, and Williamson with his
followers, amid the wooded hills oi
the ap.country, furnished another
striking illustration of the going
"a-glee" of mems best laid schemes
During this oampaign-in the sum.
mer,of 1776--Williamson threw ur
fortifications on Eighteen Mile creek,
portions of which may to-day be
seen near the brick yards of Mr.. J
O. Stribling. About the same time
he built Fort Rutledge, on the Sc
neca, which, with its guns, overawed
the Indian WALLACE called Seneca, one
OF the most important of the slower
towns" of the Cherokees. This fort
was once garrisoned by two inde-
pendent companies of rangers. Near
lit, on the plantation, afterwards
owned by Mr.. Andrew f. Lewis,
Capt. Salvador was slain in battle
with the savages and Tories. When
John Q. Calhoun came into posses
sion of the farm, which was his
home for the last twenty-five years
of his honored life, he called this
place sFort Hip in commemoration
of Fort Rutledge.
Other places within the limits of
"Old Pendleton' closely associated
with Cherokee history are Hopewell
and Tamassee, both homes Of Gen.
Andrew Pickens. The former near
Cherry's Crossing, on the Blue Ridge
railroad, where the railroad bridge
spans the Seneca river, the latter
about eight miles north of Walhalla.
The former was the scene of several
important treaties, the latter of a
hard fought battle, wherein the old
Christian statesman and warrior rem
dered most efficient service. Gen.
Pickens died suddenly at Tamassee
while sitting in chair under shade
tree7-still standing--in his yard.
His remains were brought to the
cemetery of Hopewell church, named
in honor of his former home near by,
popularly known as the Old Stone
church, and laid to rest by the side
of the grave of his wife, Rebecca
Calhoun, an aunt of John @. CAL
houn, Cardinals most illustrious son.
After the Revolution the Chero-
KEGS were forced westward, surren-
dering their last holdings in South
Carolina in 1917. These people, in
the war of 1872, rendered Gen. An
drew jackson valuable assistance
from their homes in Georgia. Forced
later from that State, many of them
were sent beyond the great "Father
of Waters" Daughters of the Con-
federacy, at whose request this ad-
dress is prepared, may be interested
in recalling that the .Cherokees, at
the outbreak of the war between the
States, took the side of the Confede.
racy, and rendered valiant service in
the battles of the West.
In the "Myths of the Cherokees-
one of our government publications
lis a store house of good things OF
the history and tradition of the red
men ,wbo- dwelt where we of "Old
Pendleton" now dwell.
For almost one hundred years
after the first permanent settlement
of our State no courts, save those at
Charleston, were held within its bor-
ders. Consequent lawlessness led to
the rule of the "Regulators." This
induced the authorities to provide in
1768-eight years'before the Deolara-
tion of Independence--for seven
judicial districts, viz, Charleston
Beaufort, Orangeburg, Georgetown
Camden, Cheraw and Ninety-Six
The first six are in the old statutes
accurately defined. The seventh
Ninety-Six District or Precinct, ii
therein somewhat vaguely declared
ITO extend to all other parts of the
Province. In 1791--eight years
after the formal close of the Revoln.
tion George WssshiHgtoa's Grst
term as President being about hall
out, the year of his tour of the
Southern States, Charles Pinckney
being Governor of South Carolina
an act to further regulate the Circuit
Courts created Pinckney and Wash
|ington Districts---the latter including
the counties of Greenville and Pen
dleton. Pickensville, which stood
near Easley, was the county seat o
the Washington District.
Seven years later, in 1903, Pen
dleton and Greenville were mad,
separate judicial districts, Pendle
ton being the county seat of tn,
former, Greenville of the latter.
In 1926, fifty years after tn,
Declaration of Independence, tn,
death year of Jefferson and the eide
Adams, Pendleton was divided int,
| the judicial districts of Anderson an,
Pickens, the county seat of tn
former being located at Anderson
the latter at Pickens Court House
now known as "Oid Pickens," nea
| the site of old Fort Prince Georg
and the Indian village of Keowee.
In the lConstitutionalI Conventiol
of 1865, the year of Lees surrender
the long struggle to make "Judicial
(. and "Election" Districts, the sam