The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1914-06-25

river, IN Gn6 llflllCS OF LllS COull-
tv. I have frequently in recent
years spent the night with Cap
tain Steele and he has shown me
the site Of the old fort, which
can be distinctly traced. This
lis in Pickens county. It stands
in the bottom land near the
river, and to this day bullets and
other relics are frequently ploE--
ed up. I have seen the remains
of a pewter teapot owned by a
British officer. This spot is not
ed as the starting point of the
famous ride Of the Indian maid,
whose name is perpetuated in
your chapter, to reach Ninety
Six to warn the garrison of a
contemplated Indian rising, her
main object being to save her
white lover, who was a British
officer. This fort was just a
;; mile from the first creek she
crossed, and to this day it is
called One Mile Creek, and I
have crossed IN my travels Three
Mile. Five Mile, Six Mile, Nine
Mile, Twelve Mile. Fifteen Mile,
Eighteen Mile, Three and -Twen-
ty and Six-and- Twenty. After
she crossed the Six-and- wenty
she struck a ridge which runs to
Ninety-Six without crossing a
stream.
There are number of historic
names of places connected with
Old Pendletop. The oldest of
these was Pickensville, once a
seat of justice, now a wide place
in the big road, with all its
glory departed, but in my bov-
hood days it was afamous place,
noted first as the point at which
the circusses, which in those
days travelled through the coun-
try. always stopped for an ex-
hibition on the trip from Green
vile to Anderson, and the whole
countryside clear to the noun
tains would be there, for it was
an event in their lives. Will
kins and his Dinah." not one,
but many of them, would be
there, he in his copperas breech-
es and brogan shoes. and she in
her linsey-woolsey and sun bon
net, and they would feast on
the long rows of wagons with
their white covered tops loaded
with ginger cakes and beer, and
I. have never seen any ginger
cakes since that tasted half as
good. It was a life of Arcadian
lsimplicity. but those sturdy
mountaineers later helped to
make the finest fighting ma
chimes ever seen on this planet,
| the Army of Northern Virginia.
But the most noted event per-
F! haps connected with old Pick
ensville in the old days was the
camp muster which all the mill
tiamen from the upper division
which took in all the districts as
far down as Edgefeld, camped
| there for a week and mustered
and drilled every day, and the
brigadier-general and his staff
and the governor and his staff
were all arrayed in their gorge
GUS regimentals, and it was a
grand old sight to see them pa
rade in all their glorious pomp
and circumstance with nodding
plumes and clanking swords and
prancing steeds, and to my boy
! ish eyes war seemed a gala day,
but I found out better a few
years later.
There were two or three places
known as settlements or villages
that had some prominence. Rock
Mills on the Generostee was a
place of considerable note. The
largest merchant mill in the dis
trict, belonging to Maverick and
Lewis, was located here; also a
sawmill, a spindle factory, dis
tilleries. several wagon makers.
and some stores were located
here, and now it is difficult to
locate the place. Mr.. Elias Earle
established Centerville princi-
pally for manufacturing pur-
poses, and General Anderson laid
out a town at the junction of