The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-10-25

was awarded second place III the o
irst engaged in last year by pupils of
Tho Pickcns High School rOr 4 medal
alrcrcd hy the local chapter U. D. g.,
,or the best cssay or the history Of
dickens county.)
Long years ago il the earlier his
tury Of the colonial days Of our coun-
~ all this country belonged to the
English Crown. About 1890 it attract
ed the attention Of the English king
who sent AleXandcr Cummings across
the Atlantic to treat with the chiefs
of the Chcrokccs, as the struggle be-
tween England and France for the
possession Of heart Of this continent
mad Just begun. Cummings pushed
his way southwark through the almost
nnbrokcn wilderness until he reached
lhc Indian village Of Kcowee, and
lherc he made Il treaty Of friendship
allies Of the English against the
within the limits of old Pendlcton
district and it's sight is near Nimmon's
fridge over kcowec river.
About 25 years later or about 1875
me colonial governor, JAS. Glenn,
ynadc another treaty with the Indians,
securing vast tracts Of land, but the
skost important Of which was to erect
forts in the Indian territory, ostcnsi-
oily for the protection Of the back
country. One of the forts was Prince
George erected OF the opposite side
# the river from the Indian village
IF ke0wee and within cannon shot of
/. This spot is noted as the starting
noint of the famous run of the In
'jian maid, Cateechcc, to reach Nine
ty-SiX to warn the garrison Of Il CON
tcmplated Indian rising, her main OBJ
lcct being to save her white lover,
who was Il British officer. This fort
was just II mile from the first creek
she crossed, and to this day it is call
ed One Mile Creek. and others she
named in her run were: Three Mile,
Nve Mile, Six Mile, Nine Mile, Twelve
Mile, Fifteen Mile, Eighteen Mile,
Ehrcc-and Twenty and Six-and-
~nd-Twenty she struck a ridge which
?uns to Ninety Six without crossing a
stream.
SO we see that almost Il century
sid a half Z this region now known
- Anderson, Pickens and Oconec
'ountics, was the home Of the Chero-
see Indians.
Sometime about l178 Gen. Andrew
.'ickcns, II of the most faithful and
fearless of the partisan leaders, made
= treaty with the indians by which
!1ey coded this territory to the state.
me treaty was known rs the treaty
~ liopewell, and until a few years
ego the huge oak under which the
ireaty was made was standing near
he old Stone church.
About ITS these lands lately CO
led by the Indians by the act Of the
legislature were included in Ninety
six district and for some years the
grurts were held at Ninety Six.
In 1885 Washington county vas
::ccted, which as near as I can find
int included what was later Pendlc-
ION district. and also Greenvillc with
me county seat at P~ickensvillc, and
nc dungeon Of the Jail hewn out of
:ock is still to be sea there. Pickens-
vile is one among the oldest places
81 historic interest connected with
lcken 1T was once Il seat Of Justice,
now a wide place in the road, with all
'ts glory departed, but long age it was
a noted place, noted first rs y point
80 which the c!rcuSScs, which in those
days travelled through the country,
always stopped for an exhibition on
The trip from Grcenville to Anderson,
and the whole country side clear to
The mountains would be there, for it
vas an event i'll their lives "Villik;ns
and his Dinah," not one, but many Of
'hem, would be there, he in his cop
ieras breeches and brogan shoes, and
shc in her linscy-woolscy and sun
bonnet, and they would feast on the
iong rows of wagons with their white
covered tops loaded with ginger cake
and beer. 1T was Il life of Arcadian
simplicity. But the most noted event
perhaps connected with old Pickcns.
Vile in the old days was the camp
muster which all the militiamen from
the upper division which took in al
the districts as far down AS Edgefeld
ramned and mustered aud drilInd o.