The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-10-13
4 IRIP>TO HISTORIC PLACES.

| ter OF the chlef JuSLlce, MAJ. w. -.
Graham, commissioner of agricuI-
ture. and Col. Fred A. Olds. collector
r the North Carolina Hall of His
tory, came to Monroe, and went with
party from Monroe, Charlotte and
Wsxhaw, to view the classic ground
of the Old Waxhaws.
The party went down the Cureton
Store road through the sandhill Sec
ton south of the town of WaXhaw to
the Charlotte-Savannah highway,
viewed the Valley of the WaXhaws
from the sand hills, went down the
highways to the McCammie place,
where Andrew Jackson WAS born,
srw from this place the battlefield Of
lhu Waxhaw's or Wahab's mill some
three miles to the south, vert down
the highway to the old hom, place
o. Elajor 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
end heard the petitions of the Ca
tawba Indians asking that they be
unmolested in their reservations, and
rruceeded to the Old Waxhaw church,
where Andrew Jackson, General An
drew Pickens, United States Senator
William Smith, Governor Stephen
l.. Miller, and Governor William R.
DAVE, and so many of the early
celebrities of this country were rear
ed and educated.
The Old Waxhaw settlement holds
peculiar interest. In the early days
of the country it gave tune and
thought to the Carolinas. Prior to
its settlement in 1851 the territory
between the Catawba and the Rocky
Rivers was inhabited by tribe of
Indians called "The Waxhaws," and
from them the settlement took its
rame. In the year 100 John Law
son, surveyor-general of the Caro-
l.nas, 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
Scotch-Irish, who, after the siege of
Londonderry, had emigrated to
Pennsylvania and later came down
iIto 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
daughter of Rev. Alexander Craig
head, after whose death and his re-
turn to Abbeville he married Miss
Caldwell, the mother of South Caro-
l:na's great statesman. At the Wax
haws, too, Andrew Pickens met and
married Rebecca Calhoun. Here at
the Waxhaws grew up William Rich
a, dson Davie, the distinguished par
Et;san leader in the War of the Revo-
luton, governor of North Carolina,
one of the trainers of the Constitu-
ZION of the United States, minister to
France in the time of Napolaon, and
founder of the University of North
Carolina. "From the same COM
nlunity, though not from the same
place." says Gen. Edward Nc Grady,
in his Historical Sketch O. South
Carolina, "came Calhoun's rival, the
great Georgian, William H. Craw-
ford, who was candidate foc Presi-
dent against Jackson in 1921. Here,
too, was born and reared William
Smith, a judge in South Carolina, a
member of Congress and United
States senator, whose estates
Rights" it is said, antedated CAL
hrun's. He was schoolmate of
Jackson under the Rev. Mr.. Alexan-
der, according to the statement made
in Judge O'Neal's Annals. And John
Erown,- Ph. D.. one of the early pro-
fessors of the South Carolina College,
ard founder of the Presbyterian
church, in Columbia, was reared
there. He was a school mate of
Jackson's under the Rev. Mr.. Hum
rhrics, and with Jackson, when they
were boys in their teens rode under
Ti,vie at Hanoino Rock. From the