The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-09-24
, A TRIP TO HISTORIC PLACES 4
Ney McNeely, in Monroe ENQUIRER.


Ney McNeely, in Monroe Enquirer.
Last Saturday Chief Justice Wal
ter Clark, Miss Eugenia Clark, daugh-
ter of the chief justice; Maj. w. A.
Graham, commissioner Of agricuI-
ture, and Col. Fred A. Olds. collector
for the North Carolina Hall OF His
tory, came to Monroe, and went with
party from Monroe, Charlotte and
Waxhaw, to view the classic ground
of the Old Waxhaws.
The party went down the Cureton
Store road through the sandhill sec
tion south Of the town OF Waxhaw to
the Charlotte-Savannah highway,
viewed the Valley Of the Waxhaws
from the sand hills, went down the
highway to the McCammie place,
| where Andrew Jackson was born,
saw from this place the battlefield of
the Waxhaw's or Wahab's mill some
three miles to the south, went down
the highway to the old home place
OF Major Robert Crawford, the uncle
Of Andrew Jackson, the place where
the seventh President was reared, the
place where George Washington
stopped on his visit to the Waxhaws
and heard the petitions of the Ca
tawba Indians asking that they be
unmolested in their reservations, and
! proceeded to the Old Waxhaw church
where Andrew Jackson, General An
n irew Pickens, United States Senator
William Smith, Governor Stephen
d. Miller, and Governor William r.
h awe, and so many of the early
\ celebrities Of this country were rear
l, ed and educated.
{ The Old Waxhaw settlement holds
Il a peculiar interest. In the early DAYS
'f the country it gave tone and
thought to the Carolinas. Prior to
s settlement in 1851 the territory
'etween the Catawba and the Rocky
~ivers was inhabited by a tribe of
indians called THE Waxhaws," and
from them the settlement took Its
name. In the year 1900 John Law
son, surveyor-general of the Caro-
linas, first came among the Wax
haws, and in his diary he tells of
some interesting incidents that oc-
Cured during his stay among them.
The first settlement here was by the
'cotch-Irish, who, after the siege of
Londonderry, had emigrated to
Pennsylvania and later came down
into the Carolinas. Among these
Scotch-Irish who came down and set
tied in the Waxhaws were the Jack
sons, Calhouns and Pickenses. An
drew Jackson was born there. Pat
rick Calhoun, the father of John c..
Calhoun, first settled there and then
pushed on to the prairie country
which is now Abbeville; and, after
the massacre at Long Cane, in which
several of his family were lost, he
returned and took refuge in the Wax
haw congregation, and married there
a daughter of Rev. Alexander Craig
head, after whose death and his re-
turn to Abbeville he married Miss
!, |
iina's great statesman. AT the Wax
haws, toor Andrew Pickens met and
married Rebecca Calhoun. Here at the
Waxhaws grew up William Richard
son Davie, the distinguished par
san leader in the War Of the Revo-
luton, governor of North Carolina
: one of the trainers of the Constitu-
tion of the United States, minister to
5 France in the time of Napoleon, and
= founder Of the University of North
p Carolina. "From the same com.
munity, though not from the same
place." says Gen. Edward McCrady
e in his Historical Sketch of South
. Carolina, "came Calhoun's rival, the
d great Georgian, William Ii. Craw
ford, who was candidate for Presi
dent against Jackson in 1924. Here
( too, was born and reared William
{ Smith, judge in South Carolina, &
: member of Congress and Unite;
e States senator, whose States